Unlearn and Relearn
Even though this SciComm Project is small in magnitude but efforts needed to tie up things together are tremendous. I alone would not be able to execute the plans and let the ball rolling without the help from my colleagues.
Nevertheless, I observed everybody's very well occupied and there's little time to give in for this size of event. As time is the essence here, the best option is always to do it by yourself and approach or deal with either the persons or processes directly. And it works!
I guess when you're in new environment you've got to unlearn and relearn few new tricks. Cheers!
posted by mrfaez @ 11/28/2006 05:49:00 PM
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No worries, when the day comes we'll there with u all the way, man!
Today is the first day of the SciComm Project. It turns out really fun and the facililitators are sporting, energetic, fun and what so ever(not to bribe). But thank to them for creating and planning such a wonderful program. I'm looking for more interesting activities. So far, I enjoyed and have fun with it. Congratz for all of the organizer. Today's program remind me to work in group, get to know people, learn new things or maybe recap what we have forgotten and inspire me to achieve my goal in life. I want to write more but I need to have enough rest for tomorrow's event and to wake up early in the morning(maybe just an accuse).
Respect to the students too! Look forward to the coming days...
Working with the UTP Sci Comm students is really fun- thanks to you all for this opportunity. After my Pendulum Snake session yesterday I had several reflections:
The first is the impressive amount of knowledge and skills among the group. I expected no less, but it was great to see both on display. You are all keen observers, experimenters and learners. May I remind you that you all discovered many "answers" about the phenomena involved without me "teaching" anything in the traditional sense. This is one science communication strategy.
I hope I wasn't too coy about the actual content we were exploring. Of course we were observing pendula and as such simple harmonic motion. And it was Galileo who first discovered that the period T of a pendulum, i.e. the time it takes to swing from one side to the other and back again, is independent of the amplitude, or its maximum displacement from the center. Thus a pendulum of length l completes f swings every second, regardless of whether its swings are wide or narrow.
Potential and kinetic energies are continually exchanged. The potential energy and acceleration of the oscillating pendula reach the maximum when its kinetic energy and velocity are minimal and visa versa.
By the way, I did test the number of swings per 30 seconds for each pendulum after our session in my office. Indeed the longest pendulum swung 27 times, the next one 28 and on and on. Next I will double check the rate of change of length from left to right.
On another note- thanks also for sharing your authentic science/nature/technology questions. I hope that some of these may inform the group projects that you do here. In any case I hope to begin responding to some by tomorrow. Happy second day and I look forward to our Aquarium trip tomorrow.
Cheers, Jamie
Hey UTPians (is that what you call yourselfs?)!
It's Day 2 and even after a 3+ hour guided tour you guys still have so much energy left! It will be great if all the enthusiasm can be fueled all the way till the end of the program!
Personally, I'm looking forward to sifting through your reflections and feedback on the sessions and speakers. I know the forms can be a chore especially at the end of the day when you're freed from the program but do spend some time. Your commitment to giving honest constructive feedback will truly help us immensely (and reflection is truly a wonderful learning activity!).
I won't be with you guys in Aquaria but I'll definitely be around for the other events on your packed agenda!
Have fun!
Daniel
New day with a new activity. I am too tired too write sth yesterday but after 6 am, i can't sleep anymore. It is fun to read the blog and i'm waiting when all other blogs will be link together. Then we could know other experiences. yeah.... aquaria is waiting.... go go go.... fun fun and fun again
The best thing we learn here is sharing. By doing blog we could share our opinion and experiences. Thank s for the advice from all the facilitators and friends.
luffy
Ladies and Gentleman,
I realized something else yesterday about our pendulum snake session- an assumption is not the same thing as a prediction. Do you agree? If so, why? and if not, why not?
Aquarium VERY cool. I'm not quite sure that the "pirate" tie-in works very well, but.......
anyway the underwater world, both fresh and seawater never ceases to fascinate me. Such amazing, interesting biodiversity. So much of this planet to discover. I hope we have the good sense to take care and preserve it for future generations.
Jamie
yeah... prediction and assumption are 2 different things because prediction is thing that we thing that might happen while assumption is the thing that we set to make the comparison better or calculation become valid
luffy,
agreed. an assumption could also be what we think we already know about the situation
Jamie
UTP students! Thank you again for your enthusiastic participation in our "comparing approaches" workshop today. Your tops and insights about the approaches were very rich and unique. I hope that you found the exercise useful and wonder if you might find any of the approaches useful in your studies or upcoming presentations here.
Cheers,
Jamie
I guess we should link this blog with the other blog together as fast as possible because it is no fun when they only focus on their blog n the discussion has only few participants. Am I right? Besides, other learners want to read other blogs too.
Yeah. bout the workshop, it is really well planned. We got the ideas which is focus on the 3 approaches. No looser or winner. Everybody are the winner. I think Pizza make us understand the discussion better. huhuhu
luffy
Luffinator,
I agree, seems like we should link these blogs up! Maestros Faiz and Thirun?
Jamie
Agreed. Yeah, we should link it.hihihi. Today is holiday, yesterday also great things, great lesson, great sleep. However we need 2 prepare for culture performance. hahaha. Happy short holiday everybody
I just want to give an opinion. I think all of us (Learners) want to read facilitator and volunteer blog right? Especially blog from Jamie, Daniel, Thirun and might be from Jean, Awa & Intan. huhu. Maybe they can give us example of professional blog.
Hi again All,
I hope that you had a good weekend. I'm looking forward to the cultural sharing tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to begin responding to some of the questions that you all wrote down on your first day. I'll start with one that both Kerim and Eziz submitted which is, roughly, What is the science of human thinking?
This general area is refered to as cognitive science these days. More broadly, so as to include emotions also, there is also a growing science of consciousness. There are quite a few very good writers on these subjects, who look at many aspects of the mind and brain including "nature vs. nurture," the neurobiological roots of learning, artifical intelligence, etc. Some I can recommend include:
Antonio Damasio
Daniel Dennett
Stephen Pinker
Roger Penrose
(You can brouse books by all of these and more at Kinokuniya)
How we think, learn and feel will continue to be studied in depth as technologies emerge that allow us to do better research (real time MRIs, e.g.)
In fact, the science center that I worked at before coming to Petrosains, the Exploratorium, is currently developing an exhibition on the human mind which focuses on the areas of judgement, emotion and decision-making.
That's all for now, cheers,
Jamie
Hi again All,
I hope that you had a good weekend. I'm looking forward to the cultural sharing tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to begin responding to some of the questions that you all wrote down on your first day. I'll start with one that both Kerim and Eziz submitted which is, roughly, What is the science of human thinking?
This general area is refered to as cognitive science these days. More broadly, so as to include emotions also, there is also a growing science of consciousness. There are quite a few very good writers on these subjects, who look at many aspects of the mind and brain including "nature vs. nurture," the neurobiological roots of learning, artifical intelligence, etc. Some I can recommend include:
Antonio Damasio
Daniel Dennett
Stephen Pinker
Roger Penrose
(You can brouse books by all of these and more at Kinokuniya)
How we think, learn and feel will continue to be studied in depth as technologies emerge that allow us to do better research (real time MRIs, e.g.)
In fact, the science center that I worked at before coming to Petrosains, the Exploratorium, is currently developing an exhibition on the human mind which focuses on the areas of judgement, emotion and decision-making.
That's all for now, cheers,
Jamie
My personal blog must remain anonymous ;-)
However, I must say there is no such thing as a professional blog. Its the spontaneity of a blog that makes it alluring the readers.
Remember, blogs adhere to Web 2.0 principle - no right or wrong, just encourages participation and community opinion.
I agree with Thirun- no such thing as a "pro" blog, but thanks, Luffy, for asking. it was a good question. I would still love to see more of what you all are writing. The cultural sharing today was wonderful. I was inspired and moved by your creativity, talent and open-ness. You are all very good communicators!
Now the science part- let's see how you all can digest your learning from here on to communicate some clear, authentic understanding in you own words by the end of next week...
BTW- doesn't Mr. Faiz' picture look like an ad for a new detective series on Astro?!
Hahaha.. Yeah, it does.
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