Monday, April 15, 2013

Enterpreneurship- task2

The study that I found interesting was a report describing an innovative teaching and learning method to help students to combine entrepreneurship and professionalism in students interested in informatics in finding solutions for the retrieve drug information. The students were divided into groups and each group could work in their chosen method to develop the model. They were given prior training in software development, project management and team work by the collaborative authority that took part in organizing the course. The method of evaluation was by peer evaluation method where, each team presents their model to the other teams and will be evaluating accordingly. This method works in my opinion because the students know that their work might become the next model to retrieve drug information in real life.
How am I going to teach entrepreneural or intrapreneural skills to in biology? it is not easy as the journey has to be from leaning to search for truths, problems and solutions to bringing those to people who understand with the solutions only. I think it is very important to teach enterpreneureal education to all the students at a very young age so that they recognize their strengths and interests early on. A fantastic idea sometimes remains at a prototype stage due to lack of enterpreneural skills. So it is important to teach them the foundation for enterpreneurship and allow them to utilize the knowledge like in the report mentioned above. 
One of my main message would also be to encourage them to think towards environmental conservation. I somehow feel that young children are more sensitive and transparent to perceive knowledge. Biology combined with environmental conservation and enterpreneurship could lead to students who would take matters into their own hands to bring the solutions from the laboratory to the consumers without compromising on environmental safety and suffering exploitation.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Prathusha,
    I can see that you've been thinking of entrepreneurship in your teaching. I couldn't find link to your article. Can you help me with it? Also have you thought about implementing entrepreneurial part in your teaching practice?

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  2. The article I was referring to is :
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC436082/pdf/317.pdf
    I would like to incorporate about entrepreneurialship in my teaching practice but at the moment I do not know what age group and where I will be teaching so I cannot be certain about it.
    Regards,
    Prathusha

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  3. In the article there is a good example of how to teach entrepreneurship.Hope you find a way to teach entrepreneurship later in your teaching practice too.

    Your task 2 is accepted.

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