The theme is “Redefining Student Mobility in Disruptive Era” with 4 sub-themes namely, Redefinition of student mobility, Main challenges and obstacles, How disruption affects mobility, and Choices and expectations.
I was happy to learn a new technique which is called, 'Jigsaw Game'.
For this approach, 16 students from 8 member universities were divided into 4 groups called, 'home group'. In each, they had to discuss who to handle one of the 4 sub-themes mentioned earlier. Then, they went to talk with others under the respective sub-themes. They were asked to share and discuss each sub-theme and summarize their key points on a flip-chart. When time was up, everyone went back to their 'home group' to learn and share what they had discussed.
By so doing, everyone had a fair share of the key points while learning how to communicate in their own and with other three representatives. Whatever they picked up would be an input for each of them to prepare an individual 3-minute talk in the afternoon.
My role was to observe their leadership while discussing with the two groups.
These are what I learned ka:
- Some with strong leadership could dominate others in his/her group, making it difficult for others to share their views.....sorry to say I think of our Thai senior administrators in some circles and sad to see how true leadership is lacking!
- When the composition of the group was friendlier, leadership shone from most members and could help generate more ideas and fun creativity.
- Listening well was really valuable while ability to continue discussion or cut in would need to be enhanced.
- When going around the group for all to express themselves, some managed to help draw key points for the whole group to deepen their discussions--- this is a valuable skill to sharpen for many!
- Sharing their topics from drawing lots was different from speech contest and picking those who could deliver clearly being themselves was important. Those who appeared to be 'natural' got our attention right away!
- For the 3-minute talk with 2-minute questions, two stood out for the coverage of the topics, great ideas, and sharp thinking to answer the impromptu ones....and definitely, confidence in a sabai sabai way to deliver the prepared talks.
- I feel quite a few still look at the universities and mobility in more traditional ways despite technological support. So I told some of them to be bolder to think differently ka.
- It struck me to think that no one thought of mobility as a self-assessment tool to know more about themselves ka! We need more reflections sessions in our projects and activities mai ka?
Happy Monday na ka.
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