Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Qns: You've attended your very first Science lesson in RP. How is learning Science in RP different from learning Science in your previous institution? Do you like it?
Ans:
Learning Science in RP has made things more interesting in comparison of my secondary school. In secondary school, we are given the selected info which are only related to exam and when we are studying for exam, it is pointless to study things that are not going to come out for exams. But in RP, we are to give our own views by researching on things that I might have known through prior knowledge, we could point out the mistakes that had taken place so as to allow us to understand and even to clarify things I might had mistaken.
In the past when I learn science, it is usually in a fixed method, by memorizing the formula or the certain special key point not by understanding how one work. Such as what we covered today, usually I just remember that there is platelet, red blood cell and white blood cell. But through today’s research and discussion with my team mates, I come to realize that blood isn’t as simple as I thought. Blood contains amino acid, gases, nutrients, nitrogenous waste, red blood cell, white blood cell and platelet. There are more information then I have known, beside clotting the injured areas and having a ABO blood type.
Through such research and discussion, I was able to understand and grasp hold of the concept better. I would say that I preferred studying in such environment than listening to lectures. In lectures, there is a higher chance of me dozing off and resulting that I do not understand what is going on in the lecture. In this “problem-based learning” environment, I am able to do my own study and if I do not understand anything, I can immediately ask and clarify compared with lectures.
If I compare with my secondary school, I would say that at the point of time, I felt that it is totally pointless to study science as I felt that studying science was to pass GCE ‘O’ level. But through PBL, I believe that Science is an important subject. It is important for me to study science, as I need to learn some basic first aid in my course, and to know that blood type and about blood transfusion, I believe that when I am covering first aid, it will help me understand more easily on why is there a need to elevate. I believe that I need to put in more effort in my research. I believe that I need to refer to other reference beside relying on Internet as my source of reference. I hope that I will be more open with my team mates, as today is the first day I am working in this team, which are different from the other 2 teams that I have worked with on Monday and Tuesday.
I hope that as times goes by, I will be more focus and be more understanding to my team mates. Even though I felt that I fared quite well today, but I believe there are still rooms for improvement. Such as communication skill, in my team I felt that we still lack of communication, for an instance; I asked them each to play the game and solve the question in the worksheet by choosing the stage that they want to solve, and then because of lack of communicating, two of my team members done the same stage and there was still 1 stage not done.
Therefore I believe my teams need to be more initiative and communicate. I know that since I am unable to open the game folder, I decided to do up the research so that they can be focus on just playing the game and answering the questions in the worksheet. I hope that my team members will take more initiative and not relying on other to decide for them. I personally felt that if my team do not wait for me to give suggestion, I believe we could finish faster and we will not fumble and rely so much on our scripts. I hope that by the next Science lesson, I will be more initiative and have the sense of urgency to complete my work on time and lastly to be more focus; especially during group presentation.
Scientific? does it matter? 6:37 AM ;
