GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
I found the article, “It Takes More than a Major” to be a stressful read. As a graduate student, when I look back at my undergraduate experience I know I wasn’t successfully prepared for the work force. My undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering didn’t emphasize innovation, instead my studies focused specifically on mathematical computation of … Continue reading Am I Prepared for Work
Read moreI enjoyed the beginning of the article article “The Myth of the Disconnected Life”. Made me think of everything that upsets me about my visits to Northern Virginia. You see couples pulling up in the posh cars, and both are staring at the phones. It’s sad. Funny, I remember 3 years ago I promised … Continue reading Improvement through Technology
Read moreAfter reviewing the articles for this weeks reading, I was happy that I couldn’t personally recall a situation in my academic experience where I felt oppressed. It might have something to do with being in an applied science major (engineering). In engineering, all subject matter is independent of personal or emotional belief, thus the probability of … Continue reading Disconnection through Diversity Discussion
Read moreWhile I was an undergraduate in the engineering program, I found myself often asking the question “why am I being forced to learn this?”. Looking back at those courses, the thing that was missing from those lectures was motivation through exampled uses (in the workplace) for the content being taught. If someone had explained why … Continue reading Role Playing in the Classroom
Read moreIn the article, “The Case Against Grades”, Alfie Kohn emphasized the very fear I have had when taking every undergraduate course, and some of the courses I’ve taken as a Graduate student. Since my late teenage years, for the past 12 years since, I’ve been a perfectionist about my academics. I was so perfectionistic, that the very … Continue reading Fear of Grades, NOT the Task of Learning
Read moreIn education, there seems to be a belief that testing students is a method of determining what students know. While I managed to get through all lower education and my college undergraduate studies successfully, I found timed-testing to be a failed way of assessing my knowledge. I believe the only thing testing taught me was how faulty … Continue reading Anxiety of Thoughtless Learning
Read moreIn the article, “Twitter and Blogs are Not Just Add-ons to Academic Research”, Tim Hitchcock argues that academic progress requires collective participation through the use of social networking. As a Graduate Research Assistant, I believe the author may have a point that publishing research has become a way of demonstrating status associated with academic success rather … Continue reading Social Networking in Academic Research
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