Aims and Accomplishment
I think it's not hard to even guss what's the intended learning outcomes as all are pretty obvious.
In the first assignment observing the unfamiliar, we are to shapen observational skills and improve the ability to describe things we observed. This is an crucial skills as we have to know how to translate observation into language people are able to understand. So, no matter in what industry, we should take observational skills as one of the fundamental. Next the comparison essay, as comparison essay are one of the basic type of essay that we have to master before persuing, let say, thesis. We have to based on what we see in the movie therefore we have to carefully look into the movie and analyses the differences and similarity between the two movies. Despite this, there's also a debate that train our talking skills such as speech and confident. The last assignments is the Research Paper. I would say that this assignment has a lot more ILOs compare to the others, as of course this assignment is much more complex, it's intended to improve the way we document data, interview skills and also produce an reserch report. To summarize, I would say that I had really improve my observational skill as I have became more sensitive to the details. Other than that, I also learnt/improve my documentation skill and speaking skills.
Reflections
I'm really appreciate that I've learnt so much in this semester. Thanks to Mr.Woon, he taught me tons of things despite from the acedemic syllabus. I would say that I learnt a lot about mindset and thinking instead of just learn according to the syllabus. I learnt a lot about how to really pronounce words and correct my way of speaking english; I learnt about how viewpoint, biases, opinions, affect the way one communicate and how the information transfer. Sometimes, argument occured not just because two persons unlike each other but miscommunication. There's so many obstacle for one pure information to transfer 100% to another persons. I also realize that still I'm weak at english speaking pronounciations and this is one of the serious problem in term of communicating with native english speaker. Other than that, I also have to improve my writing skill. I always had a problem that the essay structure is unorganize. But overall, the only way to do and solve all this problem is -- keep learning.
Class Work and Learning Process
In this assignment we are asked to choose an object to be observe and produce an essay to explain about our observation. The reason I choose the sunglasses is because it's just right in my pocket at the time Mr.Woon assign us this assignment.
Assignment 1 : Observe the unfamiliar
Assignment 2 : Comparisons Essay
We are asked to write an essay about the comparisons about two movie which is from Science fictions or Romance Comedy. Since the recent movie I have watched is the equilibrium (2002) starred Christian Bale and Elysium (2013) starred Matt Damon. This two movie settings are based of futuristic world which the first one is set at the world lead by Fasicm and Ellysium is a movie talking about in future the upper class people moved to a man made space station to live in. In other side of the coin, the poor and lowest class people have left at the abandoned earth,
In this assignment, I have grouped with Celene Soo, Kelvin Cheong, Edward Teh, Boon Haw to do this assignment. I'm glad that we did to work together. There's actually two part of this assignment :
Part 1 : we are required to interviewed three bicycle shops (as we chose) in three different geographical areas. We are to research the market of bicycle shops and how the system works although they are in three different location.
Part 2 : we are to document all the information we have gathered from no matter interviews, internet or books into a report.