Saturday, March 28, 2009

My thought about the class at UM

Hmmmmm,

I have joined the class since the the semeseter start at January till now even 2 days absent. My view towards this class were

1. Not active but not passive...it was average compared with the class I join last time
2. A lot of people like Lim, Kak Hana, Chun really support the class no matter how busy they are, expecially the wiki. I can see thier name all over the blog. Even I am not really know them, from the style they have in the class, I know that they like to study and like to point out their view if they dont understand something regarding the lesson. Actually, I like this kind of people because I can learn through my observation from them, even I am not a hardworking person.
3. Khor is my classmate since my first day at UM...my classmate for psychology class under Firuz. Even all the people thought that Firuz class look like a hell but I dont have such point of view with them and I really enjoy the method of her teaching. I miss her teaching. I never have a teacher like her before and use such a different way to teach in the class, i really admired her capability and hope to learn something from her but she left finally. Even she left, I learn something tooooo...thankd God
4. Other classmate not really know them well so might not be given any comments.
5. Dr. Tee is a good lecturer that I never met beside Prof Raja and Firuz. The first day of the class make feel like a shock because of his teaching methodology. The level of his thinking was really high and high, man. Make me feel like wanted to continue my Phd to gain more knowledge like him. He seem like knowing everything, wow...fantastic.... and I am not expected Dr. Tee was so hardworking that see and look through all our blogs and comments time by time. This is the first time which I experienced and have a tough time too...haha
6. This is my final year at UM, I miss the campus life and I love to study and gain more experience expecially knowledge through my study, observation, my campus life, etc. It will never end for me as learning will be continue even I left school in my life.......thanks God for all these lovely friend and lecturer in my life.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing your views! Questions/observations:

    1. Do you mean this course as a whole has been neither too passive or active? If so, could you suggest ways to make it more active for learning?

    2. Glad you are learnign from your classmates.

    3. I am sorry I did not get a chance to work with Firuz. Could you share with me the approach she used that made learning easier / more interesting for you?

    4. :-)

    5. Thanks for the feedback. I am wondering: what about the course give you a tough time? what could have prevented it?

    6. Enjoy your time in grad school!

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  2. 1) May be we are explore to the malaysia education system, so the spoon feed style always by our side...Active learning is to make us think and observe and doing...Think, observe and doing always at the first place for a active learning, but not all the member in the class involve all these 3 things in their learning. So the best way is to make the assignment more on individual rathar than group. As I know in group work, these 3 skill wont see more clearly..( my thought)

    2) Her style comment by others were cruel and scary. This is her style and ended up she achive her objective by pushing us to make everything in a good order. We force to think on the spot ( some games which we play during the lesson), we force to write down our point of view right after the lesson, we force to observe our classmate behaviour....how they react after a push by her...( this is my point of view)..Dr. Tee it ws hard to explain, anyway, it a good experience...

    5) some of the courses really didn't manage to gain any knowledge because no guidance and seem like I work alone. How to prevent??? actually depend on the lecturer and the learner, it's two way communication. If the learner keen to learn, but lecturer got nothing to give, then the learner have to work harder, or the lecturer make more effort but the learner didn't think it was, then the effort might gone and disappoint the lecturer. No matter how, as a master student I learn how to be more independent and more observant for every perspective. Hope to learn more and to gain more throughout my life. HAPPY LEARNING!!!

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