2009年11月30日 星期一

Task 7

No matter where we live ,we can hear the phrase” the strawberry generation” from time to time, from the newspaper, the magazine or the news reported. When it comes to the strawberry generation, it must something about negative comments. Perhaps, in some way, the youngsters who were born after 1980 are really not as diligent, perseverant and endurable as the older generations. Nevertheless, it cannot totally blame the youngsters, the family and parents also should take some charge. Now, owing to the low birth rate, many families almost only have one baby or two babies. In this way, parents must put all love and protection for their one child or two kids, fearing their children are being hurt. Consequently, parents almost take over all things from their children, making their children spoiled. When children are grown in less stressful and being overprotected by their parents, they naturally think the outside world must about the same their home life patterns. In this way, they are referred as the strawberry generation. Besides just like the article mentioned Taiwan’s economical prosperity, young people have to face the long hours, low pay and job insecurity.
Hence, by the birthday to measure each youngster is not an appropriate way. Not all young people are what we call “the strawberry generation.” There still have many young people are passionate about their life and their job. To the job, they have abundant creativity and innovation; to the life, they are more aggressive and open-minded to everything.
They also try to hard work and make some modification to change common people’s viewpoint to younglings. I was born in 1991 but I will try to hard work and prove that I am not what so called “the strawberry generation.”

2009年11月8日 星期日

Task 6

Usually my first reaction is that felt depressed when I made mistakes. Of course, after depressed, I will take my mistakes seriously. Finding out the error and correcting it are my second step.

I defined the mistake as the thing which makes people love-hate. Because nobody likes making mistakes, we always go after we can be a perfect person. Hence, if we can, we will avoid making mistakes as far as possible. However, as the proverb says: ” no one is perfect”, we must do wrongdoing during our life. But, making mistakes is not certainly a bad thing, we always learn and move forward from mistakes. Usually, we became more and more mature and sensible after we learned from our mistakes.

After listening to Prof. Pausch’s speech, I also see the mistake in the same way. In addition, I also learned the new light from Prof. Pausch’ speech, such as” experience is what you get when you did not get you wanted” and” brick walls are there for a reason: they us prove how badly we want things.”

2009年11月2日 星期一

Task 5

1. This picture includes many parts, accordingly to the “Learning Teams” part and the “Collaborative Deliberation” part, we can know this picture is showing about collaborative learning.

2. My favorite part of this type of learning is “Learning through reflection.” Owing to from this part, I can learn that why the original thought was unworkable and how do I improve the idea. After the process, I can not only improve my abilities but reflect the wrong I made as well. Making mistakes did not matter, because we are not omnipotent. But the most important thing is that after we found and reflected our mistakes, we should reform and don’t make the same mistake again.

3. I think that “Generating Multiple Perspectives” and “Making Informed Decisions” usually bother me when I work with others. Because I think Taiwan’s educational system tends to be “the spoon-feeding way of teaching,” we almost learned from this way . I feel that during my learning process, I always “accept the truth, seldom having making critical comments.” So many times I feel “Generating Multiple Perspectives” is difficult to me. And why the part” Making Informed Decisions” bother me, I think it may be related to my personality. Before I decided something important, I must be think twice. Therefore, I can’t make informed decision at once.
After learn this picture, I will try to improve my weak points. When I have group learning next time, I can use them better.