Example Reflection – Storytelling

Challenge

I am currently pursuing bachelor in electrical engineering in India it is basically four year course and I am  currently in third year. So I am basically focusing on challenges in Indian Education System. I know this  system might have worked for many people and many of them are pioneers in their respective field but  situation has changed drastically from past few decades and we are still following the same old techniques  of teaching. I have tried to reach out to as many students as I can in this situation of pandemic outbreak  via social media, Google forms etc. most of these are college students and these are few challenges I can  list down from those online surveys

1. College world and corporate or practical world are completely different.  2. Syllabus taught in most of the colleges is outdated.  3. Teaching pattern is same up to graduation level.  4. Lack of motivation in teacher due to lack of funding.  5. Huge population of India.

Selection

In week 2 session Victor Quinones said that storytelling is not the list of things we have to do it's about the  connection that we give to people about piece of information we want to share and I think it is very true.  In hugely populated country like India I think a nice story can bring many positive changes.

Application

Well you have to start every positive change from yourself. I thought in this pandemic lockdown how can  we still continue our learning and also how can we minimize effects of the challenges. Answer was quite  simple our class decided that everything from lectures to assignment will go online many of you might  think what’s the big deal in it but where I came from many of my classmates are from rural areas and  having good internet connection is still a challenge in those area. Now many of our alumni association  members have raised issue of college students are not compatible to work in corporate world so as to  reduce this gap college and corporate world our college has started various initiatives such as online  seminars and free online courses on many platform such as coorsera because of my college’s initiative I  am able to do this course which has taught me a lot about design thinking. Now I have enrolled to some  technical courses(for free of cost) which has a lot of practical approach of teaching and I am having fun  over learning there too and also the teachers are very determined to teach us so that also motivates me to  perform well. In this pandemic lockdown I am trying to build myself capable of facing post pandemic  challenges by educating self and our government is also funding this kinds of projects, right now in India  we have many bigger problems rather than education itself but I think learning should not be stopped at  any point.

Insight

Storytelling works like charm for expressing your feelings and opinions on certain topics. I just realize  that I have expressed some of the thoughts from my mind that I stored subconsciously in mind. I think

there are millions of students who can relate to my story and I think this kinds of story can bring the new  era of learning and education.

Approach

I have realized some new challenges while writing this story such as internet connectivity in rural areas I  would like to express that topic more deeply next time and I think mind mapping technique can also be  used to understand these challenges more deeply so I am very excited to use all the tools I have gained  from this course.

