Republic Poly =)
Just got back from a 3 day symposium at Republic Polytechnic about Problem-Based Learning.
It was kinda a Deja Vu for me as I had to rush from lectures on research papers to workshops for 3 days, which reminded me of schooling days. But I have come to realise that my "studying skills" have decreased drastically!! I was unable to copy quick enough and kinda got "lost" in the midst of lectures! Sucks... However I believe it is because of the difference in lecturers. Those lecturers in RP are mainly Professors and Doctorates, whose thoughts are very hard to comprehend. (VJ lecturers were much more "user-friendly")
Nonetheless, it was a great learning experience and I believe teaching in places like RP can be quite enjoyable with the extravagant environment and facilities. (no wonder there were debates on cutting the Education Budget.. Haha) And the revolutionary idea of having no tutors but purely facilitators to "guide" the students instead of traditional teaching is very interesting yet skeptical. No offence, but I don't think students of this generation are disciplined enough for such a "freestyle" learning system. I believe students must be taught in the "freestyle" way since the very beginning, such as primary school. Only then, will this new teaching method work in tertiary level like polytechnics, otherwise students after being under the traditional teaching method for 10 years (pri and sec) will be more inclined to abuse the system.
Next two days will be another course for me. This time is Knowledge Management.
From what i gathered, it seems to be the "in" thing among corporate companies now? Companies wish to learn the systematic way of knowledge transmission from batch to batch as they realise valuable knowledge which are not documented are often lost in the midst of changing of employees (since job hopping is so common now).
Read a book about KM.
And it says, "...., hence Knowledge Management is making tacit knowledge, explicit. It is critical to avoid focusing on gadgetry and disregard how people in organisations acquire, share and create new knowledge."
This is something new to me, as I have always thought KM to be similar to Library Catalog where detailed dating and ordering of documents is the core. Yet, the book says it is about the people who holds the tacit knowledge. Hmm interesting, I really wonder how can tacit knowledge be explicit. Lets hope the course will answer my question.
Oh just received the notification of an interview with Imperial College on my Chemical Engineering application! Yeah!!
It was kinda a Deja Vu for me as I had to rush from lectures on research papers to workshops for 3 days, which reminded me of schooling days. But I have come to realise that my "studying skills" have decreased drastically!! I was unable to copy quick enough and kinda got "lost" in the midst of lectures! Sucks... However I believe it is because of the difference in lecturers. Those lecturers in RP are mainly Professors and Doctorates, whose thoughts are very hard to comprehend. (VJ lecturers were much more "user-friendly")
Nonetheless, it was a great learning experience and I believe teaching in places like RP can be quite enjoyable with the extravagant environment and facilities. (no wonder there were debates on cutting the Education Budget.. Haha) And the revolutionary idea of having no tutors but purely facilitators to "guide" the students instead of traditional teaching is very interesting yet skeptical. No offence, but I don't think students of this generation are disciplined enough for such a "freestyle" learning system. I believe students must be taught in the "freestyle" way since the very beginning, such as primary school. Only then, will this new teaching method work in tertiary level like polytechnics, otherwise students after being under the traditional teaching method for 10 years (pri and sec) will be more inclined to abuse the system.
Next two days will be another course for me. This time is Knowledge Management.
From what i gathered, it seems to be the "in" thing among corporate companies now? Companies wish to learn the systematic way of knowledge transmission from batch to batch as they realise valuable knowledge which are not documented are often lost in the midst of changing of employees (since job hopping is so common now).
Read a book about KM.
And it says, "...., hence Knowledge Management is making tacit knowledge, explicit. It is critical to avoid focusing on gadgetry and disregard how people in organisations acquire, share and create new knowledge."
This is something new to me, as I have always thought KM to be similar to Library Catalog where detailed dating and ordering of documents is the core. Yet, the book says it is about the people who holds the tacit knowledge. Hmm interesting, I really wonder how can tacit knowledge be explicit. Lets hope the course will answer my question.
Oh just received the notification of an interview with Imperial College on my Chemical Engineering application! Yeah!!
posted by Peng Yu at 10:56 PM
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