Blog post 2(revised 3)

In my first year in Singapore Polytechnic, I had noticed the changes of how the students and teachers communicated in lecture halls and classrooms. I observed that some students can intently interact with the lecturer with questions and remarks as they take these lessons seriously in class. As the lecturer goes through the lessons in class, the students would listen and take down notes to understand the information given. However, in a lecture hall that can fill up to fifty students, some students chose to freely bring out their handphones or laptops to do away with their own entertainments in front of the lecturer. The lecturer would not show any concern or dismiss any of their actions as he had to carry on the lesson for the other students who are willing to learn. It is as though the lecturers and students behavior differ in different environments. This could be a culture of how teenagers act depending on the supervision of the lecturer. I could be that some needed to be watched or alerted by the lecturer to pay attention to the lessons.

As the lessons went by, I noticed how every girl in the lecture hall and classroom were very smart and organized with writing down their own study notes in response to lessons while some of the males can basically rely on the books or notes provided by the lecturer or they don’t refer to any studying materials but listen. People say that females are smarter than males as they perform better in their studies. This might not be true as some males were sometimes smarter than the females and could achieve better results without using any studying methods. Perhaps, it was because the females showed more hard work than the males in class that made us misunderstood how capable females. There is no difference on males and females performing seriously in their studies

There were also group projects my class had to attend and my group involved different students from other courses. We had to engage in group discussions after we were given an objective. One of my group members who was older than us seemed to be very lazy as my group talked. He would start to look down on his handphone during a group discussion and sometimes he slept as the discussion went by. We tried talking to him but he folded his arms in front of him defensively and shook his legs nervously whenever we asked him to help us. Even though he was older, he should learn to respect the group discussion as it would be bad if we started to judge him badly for his actions. Regardless of our difference in age, he should not be carefree about in the group and he should not expect us to tolerate his behavior. As he was the oldest, he should be acting more responsible and disciplined.