Based on the Taylor's Graduate Capabilities (TGC), we have learnt to have good communication skills. We have developed communication skills by being more confident while presenting our work. We have increased our communication skills especially in ESL, where we had to conduct our Oral Test, where it is a 'one-to-one' session with our lecturer about our topic chosen and also group presentation, where we had to talk about another topic chosen . In the group presentation, we used this communication skills when we had to discuss with our group members in regard to the topic chosen.
The activity that was conducted, successfully helped us to develop this TGC. The TGC developed is communication skills which helped us to complete this reflective assignment 1.
This skill will definitely help us in our university admission, future profession and life. This is said because, with this skill, we can communicate better and fluently especially during our interview session to be able to get a place into the university of our choice. Not only that, it would also help us in communicating with people in our profession, especially if were were to take up law, medicine and so on.
When we found it difficult, we should learn to communicate more with our close friends to build up confidence. In the future, if we were to take up another foreign language, we should take initiative to enroll into classes that teach that language and make a commitment to attend it. Thus, our communication skills could be increased.
Based on the Taylor's Graduate Capabilities, we have developed our thinking and problem solving skills based on the subjects we took mainly in physics, chemistry, and biology. There were many experiments, assignments and practical write ups. In Chemistry, we have an assignment where we had to think of our own topic to research on which has to be related to chemistry. We also had to do an i depth research on the topic we chose. Other than that, in Physics, during experiments, we need to think of physics concepts to be applied in the experiment better. In Biology, there were many practical write ups where we needed to think and reflect back on the experiment we conducted and process a report on it.
The activities mentioned above helped us to develop our thinking and problem solving skills. It made us think more on how to reflect with the experiments we have done. It has also improved us on our problem solving skills.
In university admission and for future profession, there will be interview conducted. this can be easy as we have developed a better thinking and problem solving skills. We have to think of ways to answer in the interview. Other than that in university we have an in depth thinking skills to find out information on our researchers. In life, we are able to use this skill to solve our daily life problems.
At first, we found it difficult but eventually after lots of assignments, lab reports and research that have to be done in limited time given, however have made us get used to challenging problems and made us think critically. We should apply this skill in real life and try to improvise ourselves by involving in clubs or societies to widen our thinking skills and experience.
Digital Literacy
Throughout our SAM programme, we managed to develop digital literacy skills. During our ESL presentation, we were supposed to prepare our own slides according to the topics we have chosen. We used turn-it-in to check our plagiarism in our work. We also obtained latest updates about the programmes and subjects through Edmodo and Taylor's Student Portal. Developing digital literacy benefited us a lot as we were able to review our lesson via Educreations.
The activities conducted was a great help as it helped us to think critically to avoid any similarities between our assignments. Besides, we managed to perform our tasks systematically. developing digital literacy skills enabled us to gain access to our lecturers even after classes. We also managed to browse through Taylors Library via online to find sources in order to complete our assignments where we found many useful journals, ebooks and articles regarding our topics.
Digital literacy skills help us to work out our projects and assignments consistently in university life. We are able to use ICT effectively and use related technologies in our future profession. Using technologies makes things easier and it is convenient in our future life.
Since we joined the fast track of SAM programme, we were given a short span of time to finish our assignments. With digital literacy, we were able to finish our tasks more faster in the time given.
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