Virutal Session I

My baby steps in vocational world started with the first virtual session on 10th of September. The session started off quite well. We were divided into three breakouts and since there are three people in our group, each breakout had one representative. The main topic of the session would be ‘Learning and Tutoring’.

First presentation was from team Mars and they had to present about ‘what kinds of views of learning are there?’ their presentation started with a simple yet sensible activity of writing our name the normal way, then with left had, eyes closed and backwards. It was easy to write as we already know our name and the connection between the known and the unknown was smooth. There were some interesting topics that were touched during the presentation for example about different learning styles and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. From the presentation each one of us could get an idea what learning style would suite us. Maslow’s pyramid on the other hand informs about the self-actualization needs to thrive in the society. Psychological needs, safety and security needs, social needs, esteem needs are those that rise in the pyramid. All in all that was a great start for the session.

The second presentation was by team Jupiter and their topic ‘ what role do learning styles and strategies have in study guidance/tutoring?’

The third and last presentation for the session was by Saturn and the topic was ‘ what role does the curriculum have in designing learning and guidance’. Although I was eager to listen to what everyone had to say, I could not be there for the whole time as my computer got switched off thrice as there was some problem with the fan in my processor.

All in all the first virtual session went well, there were some problems but I guess as the sessions go by, things will improve.