Learning that Lasts

A wall at AST

My First Lecturing Experience

Today, we had the last lecture for our assessment course, AED 236.

It has been a most enriching and exciting experience for me, lecturing and tutoring at tertiary level. :) I will remember my first undergraduate class most fondly! :)

Online Learning

I am currently involved in a project which is using online platform to collect data. It is my responsibility to source for a suitable online platform for our data collection. It was initially challenging for me, someone who is IT-unsavvy! Lol. But I am glad that I came through. It is indeed an exciting learning experience. :)

PhD Holders vs Projector

How many PhD holders are needed to set up the projector?
One of our colleagues needed to set up his notebook to link to the projector for our meeting. However, the technician wasn't around so we were on our own. It started with one, then two, then three and in the end there were 3 PhD holders, 1 PhD candidate, and 1 manager who were mulling around the controls and trying to work out how to fix up the projector. Unfortunately after 15 minutes, still nothing. In the end, it was another manager, the 6th person, who managed to set it up lol. 
In the end , none of the PhD holders were able to fix up the projector. LOL. What my mother said on an occasion suddenly makes sense - the more educated you are, the more stupid you become. Perhaps we stop being an all-rounder once we started specialising in our area of knowledge. Perhaps we stop learning about other areas unrelated to our area of expertise. Perhaps we also become more adverse to taking risk... Perhaps we should start learning again about everything else around us. 

Overload

I had meeting after meeting today. It was cognitive overload! Lol. Lots of new information to assimilate and there is going to be some pretty steep learning curves...

Growth and Learning

Today my colleagues and I were back in our schools doing fieldwork. The last time the children saw us were in early March. It was nice to see that the children remembered us. It was also nice to see that the children have grown, not just in terms of their height, but especially in terms of their learning, and their confidence. :)

Talk

I attended a very interesting talk about Creativity and 21st Century Learning at my work place. I was the video woman lol. No lah, I was there for the talk first and helping my friend second to video the session. The presenter threw us some pretty interesting stuff to ponder about. The panel was most engaging too, throwing out pearls of wisdom of their own. I can't get the chocolate chip muffin example out of my head now lol. It's giving me food for thought lol. No pun intended haha :P

I really enjoyed the talk very much. I hope to attend more of such talks. :)