Critical Reflection

Module Learning

Walking out of this module, I personally feel that my communication skills have improved by a noticeable amount. I find myself being able to speak to my peers more comfortably during our class presentations, and it was because of the need to speak to some of them during class. Why that helped me tremendously is because we always spoke about the objectives of a certain assignment. Coming from different backgrounds or having different personalities did not matter because we were always on the same page, talking and discussing about the assignment. Though our conversations were not deeper on the emotional scale, the discussion amongst my peers helped me burst my introvert bubble. Apart from that, I feel that I have learnt a thing or two about critical thinking skills, although there is definitely more that I can learn from. Over the past twelve or so, I started to incorporate a deeper level of thinking when it comes to completing an assignment, or when it comes to just going on about my daily life. With the critical thinking skills that I picked up, I am able to understand things more, and not just judge a certain situation or a topic on a surface level. A thing or two that I can do to improve on my both my communication and critical thinking skills is to consciously practice it. Good critical thinking skills are developed when you are consistently applying a deep level of thinking, and good communication skills comes when you speak more in a crowd, or writing a report or an essay that has good language use.

Project Learning

Through the assignments that we did over the course of the module, one of the more notable lessons learnt was when we did the assignment for a mechanical innovation on a product. Specifically, when I had to research the benefits of the product that we proposed. It was challenging because our product, the Lithium-Sulphur battery, is still in the works of research, and coming up with convincing pointers was difficult because it has not been implemented in any system. What helped me get through this assignment was the fact that I had help form my teammates,  and something that I realised about us was that we applied critical thinking in each and every component of the assignment. We were always discussing about the topic, which led us to having very productive conversations with one another. From this project, I learnt that teamwork and communication are skills that every group should possess, and I will be practicing the skills I have learnt through the project, into future assignments with different people.