Friday, 23 May 2014

VOC2 Feedback: How the other groups’ themes are present in my own line of work

Please visit to my blog to have a look at all the 5 themes of VOC2 related reflective works: http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/p/voc-2.html

Entrepreneurship
I have worked for ICT industry around 14 years, thus for me entrepreneurship is not a new subject for me but a natural competence. I have experiences of drawing and proposing business plans to Nokia’s partners. And with my own interesting, I have participated entrepreneurship course in Helsinki provided by EnterpriseHelsinki. As I have exercised a business plan in my blog (http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/search/label/Entreoreneurship), in the future I would like to open my eyes to find some business ideas in the educational field and related to teach student in ICT field.

Strengths
Developmental points

·              Learning content is well defined and organized using Prezi tool.

·              The content about entrepreneurship covers very well the learning outcome, and can be easily understood.



·        References in Finnish may be seen as not useful for foreign students.
·        Prezi tool is little bit annoying to see small letters in some of slides, unnecessary zoom in and out needed.
·      The YouTube video does not tell explicitly what differences between external and internal entrepreneurship are.

Interaction with the working community (Working-life Orientation)
I would say the key aspect I have found from the framework of working-life oriented is my views on working-life from the future aspect. Because the future is the time which new technologies will play major roles to improve globalized educational systems, I would like to be the one of the changing forces to get there.
My reflective blog regarding Working-life Orientation can be found from here: http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/search/label/Working-life%20Orientation

Strengths
Developmental points

·               Very well structured format of learning environment followed by the learning steps and clear guidelines.

·              Creativeness in learning methods e.g. snowball and interview

·              Working-life orientation from the future perspective

·              Little bit too much of tasks in one theme, required quite much of time and efforts to accomplish them all.

·              What is the role of school in community or society? I think this is quite relevant and important for the topic, but it was not really dealt in any activities.


Sustainable Development
In my opinion, Sustainable Development should be the most urgently integrated into current educational system. It was surprising to see, still we are continuing unsustainable human impacts toward the nature and no dramatic changes from the industrialization value. Global warming and climate change as the primary issue of the sustainable development, this to be integrated into all the level of educational system. Thus help to build a value of harmonized sustainability with the nature and make sure that every individual should have responsibilities for their course of unsustainable actions.
My reflective blog regarding sustainable development can be found from here: http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/search/label/Sustainable%20Development

Strengths
Developmental points

·              Guiding questions for individual writing have covered well the core questions.

·              The video method has been introduced to build the basic concept of sustainable development, so the concept has been used for developing my area of work.

·              Learning environment was organized as like the teacher-centered approach, students interactions have not encouraged at all.

·              Whole contents was quite basic level, not so much of surprising and new things for me

Special Education
According to the census data provided by the Finnish National Board of Education, the number of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) is highest in the technology, communication and transport sector with 11%. I feel that I need to be well prepared for those students. In lesson plan and execution of the plan, there must be consideration and modification for students with SEN. Luckily, in Finland school and municipality are cooperating together to draw up the Individual Education Plan for the students with SEN.
My blog post regarding Special Education can be found from here: http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/search/label/Special%20Education


Strengths
Developmental points

·              Writing latter to the father of son with special educational needs. With this exercise, I have tried how to support and counsel with empathetic manner




·              For the task of making a short video, needs to be explained more with what are expected by the teaching team. Providing guiding questions would be helped for those who confused about the task.

·              IEP example is only in Finnish

·              Need to bring awareness and knowledge for what are the teaching skills and methods for students with SEN, this I seen as important

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