Applying Olympic and Professional Athlete Motivational Practices to Student Life

Lecturer: Dr. Robert Schinke

         At the beginning of the class, professor had already did a short introduction about Dr. Schinke’s extraordinary background, but I was still surprised by the story that Dr. Schinke himself had told us. He had been told to give up on moving forward in every progress of his learning, but he believed that he is the only one that could told himself to give up. And now he is the best of the best in his profession, and lecturing to us.

         Dr. Schinke had shared many of his life skills from his experience with preparing those athletes to the best condition. Some of the skills like eat well, sleep well might seems kind of silly but many of us are having difficulties on doing it due to our “vibrant” campus life. And he also shared his thought on “balances and mixes” life, to him, there isn’t such things as fifty-fifty in study and life, it is a mixture of all kinds of different components that compose your whole day. Instead of counting how many  present should studying get, how many present of social should be in our life, he prefer more on having a mixture of varieties of thing in a day so you can get a whole  new start in the next day.

         Aside form arranging normal agenda in your day, Dr. Schinke also advise us to find some activities to help refresh ourself to be more productive in the up coming event. By finding the things that can reset your anxiety, you can be relax while giving yourself a quick break instead of working all day long and feel nothing pain. So finding ways to keep yourself both mentally and physically healthy require your own effort to get your personal method to lower your stress.

         For example, instead of working endlessly on your project, you should always squeeze out some time to take a walk outside or do something physical to loosen up your stiff body. Or you can find a weekend to enjoy the delicacies that you wanted to try out for a very long time, or find a beach to feel the sand and listen to the sound of waves can always be a good way to relax.

         A test require extra effort to go through the errors that you had made to reach its maximum effect, and so does the setbacks you met in your life. Dr. Schinke not just recommended us to look back at our recent setbacks but also asked us to get a log book to record our daily life to get a bigger picture of the places that should be corrected. Me, myself doesn’t look back at the mistakes that I make before and get      stuck in a loop that now I can’t really find the step that I once did wrong. So Dr. Schinke’s words remind me of not making the same mistake that I have suffered until now.     

         An important part in the lecture is to promote us to find our own talented gift and bring it to a good use just like an athlete to find their way to shine in the field. In Dr. Schinke’s lecture almost everything he talked about is within his experience to help those professionals to do their best, but I found that there isn’t much of a problem to execute those skills in every stage of our life. All Dr. Schinke gave us is a good living habit and the correct way to face our life that fits in your whole life.

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Challenges Facing Schools in the Changeable world

(Task of teaching in a fluid word)

lecturer: Dr. Martyn Rawson

lecture content:

         In this fast-changing world, nothing is completely fixed in one place. As the time pass by, more and more things are liquid-like, which keep flowing between two or more different concept that are on the contrary. So, Dr. Martyn told us that each of us has to be “able to navigate through the deep water of social and economics without using any help other than yourself”, and ones also need to “find an stable yet dynamic balance between realities without any models” that is to say that each of us has to do our best without any help to adapt future changes.

         Dr. Martyn also lectured us about the purposes and functions of education, which is aimed to civilized people to be useful for society. The functions for education according to Dr. Martyn are socialization, qualification, and becoming a subject. With those things we could learn skills, avoid or be able to solve wicked questions, and capable of handling autonomous judgements.

         And teacher also mentioned the purpose of education which we thought we knew well but didn’t get to ponder it thoroughly. He told us that the whole purpose is to civilize people. Through motivating ourself we got to be independent, to be came an individual person while serving the need of economic and social.

My thoughts about the lecture:

         Just like what Dr. Martyn has talk about how the world today is changing so rapidly that I can’t really adapt those uncertainties, needless to say that other social entities have to face those problems behind all that changes. What Dr. lectured us about is how we could become a life artist or a juggler to help ourself to face these crises.

Before this speech I never think about what are the purpose of education and how am I going to do to face the waves of continuously crises. But after this I finally have some clue to start working on those questions. The meaning of education isn’t always spins around ourself but also connected the working and flourishing of our own society.

Elongation and feedback from the speech:

         Dr. Martyn has mentioned that people now a days need to learn how to use and distinguish the correct knowledge from the big data. Through big data some things in our life become more and more predictable yet there are still people that don’t believed in science but to believe in their intuitive thinking is something that we could work on to fix it through education that Dr. Martyn had taught us.

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Life is Heutagogy

講師:保障教育選擇權聯盟總召集人 陳怡光老師

演講內容:

這場演獎大概分成兩部分:

第一部分是老師的演講，他簡單的介紹了Pedagogy(教育學)、Andragogy(成人教育學)、跟Heutagogy(自主學習)三者在課程的自由度和學習者的成熟度之間的高低。然後老師再把台灣是怎麼從1990年前制度演變到到現在的台灣教育法律的發展史快速地講過一遍。

而第二部分則是老師一個個地回答我們提出的許多跟課程還有他們家的自學經歷有關問題。因為老師是108課綱的委員、是創XU實驗大學的創校元老之一、他的兒女又都是自學生，所以我們對於這些方面的問題便填滿了這次演講的後半部

演講心得:

         這次的演講帶我從真的有實際經驗的那一方來了解「自學」對那個家庭還有當事人帶來了甚麼影響，也藉這次機會打破了許多之前對自學的各種迷思。像是自學不等於沒有朋友，反而能有更多和不同國籍、不同年齡的人有著接觸的機會。還有許多人認為自學到出社會的人可能有一些適應不良的問題，可是現實是其實他們所選擇的職場本來就不是要他那種人，不然其實自學的出路有很多的可能性。還有對有自學生的家庭來說其實最大的機會成本其實是家長要付出的許多的時間和耐心，而不是一般人認為的金錢

延伸:

         陳老師在演講時回答問題的時候有提到許多的社會價值是需要許多時間來改變的，不論是台灣現在普遍盛行的「唯有讀書高的風氣」還是陳老師在推行得更自由的學習制度，都是需要由長時間的推行和努力才能從最一開始的「不被接受」變成普世理念的「理所當然」。

 

 

 

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設計思考與生活(10/6)

講師:林倍伊助理教授(教育與學習科技學系助理教授)

演講內容:

        在我們的生活中到處都有著許許多多的問題等著我們去解決，不但浪費了我們寶貴的時間，也耗盡了我們的心力。而「設計思考」就是一個讓你能有系統地有一個完整的S.O.P. 的同時又能快速的累積各種經驗的好方法。

        一般的設計思考流程是: 發現問題→觀察同理→定義問題→提出可能的解決方案→實際執行(做出原型)→評估&修正。雖然這些是設計思考的基本流程，但是擁有一個不怕失敗、且能在一次次的嘗試中快速做出調整的精神、還有能成功地找到問題的核心也是裡面不可或缺的重要角色。

        而一個人能如何去主動的同理自己，甚至是去同理自己的學生都是設計思考在生涯規畫和教育上的連結中很重要的一環。讓自己的教學知識能藉由設計思考來和學生來場刺激的腦力激盪，同時也能藉由那些佔滿白板的便利貼來互相了解彼此的想法，並獲去喊思和改良的機會不正是一種有效的設計思考的實踐嗎?

演講心得:

        我發現我之前在遇到挫折時常常因為找不到問題的核心，所以最後都是直接一股腦地衝進去，卻沒有在試著處理問題之前退一步地去思考、去設計出一個完整的計劃之後再行動。但是在這一次的演講之後林倍伊老師給出的設計思考的步驟讓我有一個可以在遇到困難時能更快的不再徬徨的依據。老師也提供了一些有助於生涯規劃的設計思考的實踐行動方案，像是用兩到四個禮拜來建立良好習慣的短期養成方案，或是為期五年的奧德賽計畫(Odyssey Plan)都是很適合我們現在這個時期進行的計畫。

延伸&回饋:

        老師在最後的Q&A階段有被問到人生規畫應從什麼時候開始?而老師的回答是在每一個不同的人生階段都有那個時期該去了解的東西，而我覺得如果之前沒有確實的做好功課那把握這次機會做一個奧德賽計畫來彌補之前錯失的機會吧!

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The 21ST century skills and the ways for their development (9/29)

Lecturer: Prof. Roza Leikin (University of Haifa)

Lecture content:

         Since we live in a very special era where technology rises, so the skills to improve has also change through time. Prof. Leikin had explained two sets of 21^st skills for us and also show us some tips on developing these skills on students. Although she introduces two different types of skills but they can definitely be integrate into a set of skill which contains critical thinking, creativity and other fundamental skills of working with other people and maintain the quality of ourself.

         According to professor, in order to improve student’s 21^st skills and their learning motivation, first of all ones have to us multiple or varieties of ways to get their attention. Like engaging them into a task that challenges their skills without frustrating them, or give them some experience of different examples that you are teaching instead of teaching with only black board and textbooks. 

My thoughts about the lecture:

         It is my first time attending a speech in complete English, at first, I thought it is only a piece of cake to me but I soon realize that I was too arrogant about it. The accent of prof. Leikin is out of my expectation and the online speech keeps me from focusing on speech so I have to listen to the speech again to fill the gaps that I missed when my mind goes to outer space.

         But after the second time listen to prof. Leikin’s speech I find out that a lot of the 21^st skills look independent to each other but they are all related one after one. Like creativity seems to have nothing to do with critical thinking, but it is creativity that gives ones more different perspectives that makes one’s critical thinking more critical and distinguish from the others.

Elongation from the speech:

         In this fast-changing world, the skills that Prof. Leikin mention in the lecture can help us adapt while keeping our competitiveness. The education policy in Taiwan now is definitely on the way of going on the right direction that professor Leikin mention in the lecture, but instead of using the ways professor talked about in the speech. Taiwan is still using the same old way on teaching those high school or younger students but keeps adding more and more tasks on filling their resume and thus adding unnecessary worries on students, teachers, and even on student’s parents.

         What’s more, Prof. Leikin has mention that mathematics is the main subject that her team research on because many of the 21^st skills can be reflected when teaching or learning math. But the education below high school doesn’t even mention any of the skills but keep feeding equations or the ways to solve a question in a test. Me, myself who isn’t good at math only gets frustration and self-denial through this kind of math education.

 

This is the first time that I get to attend in an speech about education and improving oneself and I have learn a lot in this lecture so I am looking forward to learn more from the speeches in the following week.

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