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I am truly grateful to the person who accepted me as part of Data Acquisition Electronics team years ago – Friedl Bartsch. During his last days with us I was able to extend my gratitude to his family and learned that his wife Claudia shares the same Catholic faith as me. I regretted that IContinue reading Appreciation Note to Techs Support at ACNS
You are reading this because you are related to me by blood, friends at work, my previous and current studies, church, through my children’s friends or in sports. Regardless, I wrote this for you, for me not to impose but to share my innermost thoughts and disposition hoping that one day you will find thisContinue reading “This is me”
According to The Catholic Weekly publication [1], NSW Labor Leader Chris Mims mentioned that “Our kids are the first generation to grow up immersed in technology and we do not fully understand what this means for their young and developing minds”. Nevertheless, the author of the same article, D. Cramsie enumerated the possible negative effectsContinue reading Technology and Temperance: A Big Yes!
The title seems to be confusing, but it is not. The goal of this blog is to make it clear to educators and parents what the author meant by “supporting homosexuals” without contradicting Roman Catholic teachings. According to W. Struthers [ref 1], humans especially men are “wired for intimacy” . Attraction to opposite sex isContinue reading Supporting Homosexuals in their Education According to Catholic Faith and Morals
Learning can be defined in various ways; one of them is that “it is a process through which one becomes capable of a more sophisticated, more flexible, more creative action” (Davis et al. 2000:73, cited in Foley, 2004:67). I strongly believe that, as a teacher, one should provide an environment for change. This blog includesContinue reading How MFI influenced my beliefs regarding learning and teaching
The case study that will be analysed here is my teachingexperience in the subject called Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC). The analyses will be based on the day when myparticipants were most varied. On that day, my participants weremade up of one maintenance supervisor, two new engineeringgraduates, four practicing technicians and two teachers. The firstthree hours ofContinue reading Case Study on delivering a competency-based course about Programmable Logic Controllers
Chapter 2 New Professional and Vocational Education This second chapter of the book by Foley, “The New Professional and Vocational Education“, is contributed by Andrew Gonczi, who had significant involvement in the developments of the technical and vocational education as well as in the formulation of the competency standards in Australia. In this chapter theContinue reading New Professional and Vocational Education : A Critical Annotated Reference
The worthiness of any activity, among others, depends on the individual experiencing it. One of the gauges to measure experience’s worthiness is whether the person engaged in it learnt from it or not. This handout aims to explain what experiential learning all is about. The emphasis is on how ‘four-stage learning cycle’ works in experience-basedContinue reading My Experiential Learning Perspective
Analogically, adult educational philosophy is for a teacher as cane is for the blind. This essay explains what my ‘cane’ was in the field of technical education and how it was influenced by my life experiences. This essay also describes the development of my old ‘cane’ into a new one by considering the thoughts forwardedContinue reading My Adult Educational Philosophy