9. CRITICAL REFLECTION

Module learning:

Some of the goals I had set for myself at the beginning of the course were to be able to produce be a better writer and to learn to be more creative in terms of thinking. I believe that I have made improvement with respect to my initial goals, however, I can do even better with time. Afterall, the end of this course should not mark the end of learning and improving. As for how I managed to work towards my goals during the length of this course, I did the following: I tried to focus during lessons and absorb as much as I could, I tried to be clear of the requirements of each lesson and of the tasks at hand. From doing so, I believe I absorbed more than I otherwise would if I were to go to classes on an “autopilot” mode. The first assignment on the reader response allowed me to put the lessons learnt in class to good use. I learnt about the Paul Elder Framework, having good transitions between sentences and paragraphs and relearnt how to cite sources. I strongly believe that whatever I learnt for writing can follow me throughout my journey in SIT and at the workplace in the future as I see myself writing reports and proposals in the future. In terms of being creative in thinking, there were countless opportunities for us to work on this in class, Sir Brad would often throw a question at the class and ask us to discuss within our groups and come up with an answer in a few minutes. This really helped develop creativity in terms of thinking. I must add that we also had Generative AI that we could rely on, and that assisted us in giving us a guideline to answer or to improve our answers. Once again, I did improve in terms of writing and being a more creative thinker, but this learning journey does not end here, and the course was a great boost for me in those areas.

Project learning:

One key aspect of my project that I would like to reflect on would be presentation skills. I would say that the presentation aspect of a project also ties with teamwork skills. With respect to this project and my team members, I learnt that everyone in the team has their own strengths and weaknesses. I believe that it would have been good to identify these things early on and figure out how we could work around it. I learnt that I require a long time to practice and familiarize myself with the content that I am presenting. However, was not the case with all the members of my team. This was because everyone had different knowledge of the system being discussed beforehand. This meant that I had to learn more about our system before presenting it. Additionally, when it came to the QnA portion of our presentation, I was not able to have a chance to answer questions that were given to my team due to not being as familiar and confident about my team’s chosen system. I believe I should have anticipated this beforehand and did some research on the system and the ideas surrounding it so that I would be able to deliver a better presentation and answer any questions regarding the system that our team picked. Nevertheless, I still believe that this was a great opportunity to work with a team where there was an expert in our topic. I believe that I would be able to encounter such things at the workplace in the future and it would always be beneficial to learn more about systems/devices I am dealing with.

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