Reflection Post #1

Teaching on the Internet is an experience I have never had before. As I said, Because of the digital trend of finance, every practitioner must face elements such as numbers and charts every day. For example, line graphs represent trends, histograms compare numbers, and so on. Practitioners must have the ability to analyze information from graphics, which is the top priority for the decision-making and execution of financial operations. Whoever discovers hidden information first will take the lead in the market. And all this is not taught by a specific person. In the process of work, this ability will be discovered and cultivated subtly. So, for me, learning with the Internet is more familiar.

The financial industry seems to have a lot of tacit rules, and tacitly understanding that you have mastered the skills is one of them. Making reports, using Python to dig data, using Excel to organize data, etc., the school will not teach these skills, but every financial industry analysis job requires these “basic skills”. I don’t know how this problem was solved more than a decade ago, but I know that job seekers now use the Internet to learn these skills. Either online lessons, or a series of video collections, through the Internet, job seekers can easily master these practically easy-to-learn skills.

So, what does the internet mean to me? It can be a resource or information. Today’s financial companies are maximizing the use of the Internet to collect information, and almost no industry is hungrier for Internet technology like this. Because here, more information actually means more money. Those who can’t make money will be eliminated by the market.

I also agree with your view of Selwyn’s view that “Yet the idea of the self responsibilized, self-determining learner is based on an unrealistic assumption that all individuals have a capacity to act in an agentic, empowered fashion throughout the course of their day-to-day lives.” As I saw when I observed online teaching during this epidemic, the average grades of students have dropped significantly compared to before the epidemic. Just as we guessed, and the students themselves know well: the students are not restrained, thus more or less relaxed the state of learning. And those students who are very serious-their grades are almost unobviously affected. Therefore, I think Internet teaching may expose students’ learning ability. What I worry about is whether this will create an education gap-the fruits of education are only enjoyed by students who study hard. Obviously, the cost of Internet teaching is higher. Then spend higher costs, but get worse results, is this what we expect? How to change?

So, as an answer to the last question, I believe it does. I don’t have any experience as a teacher, but I would be more willing to accept face-to-face teaching. Seeing and listening are not the only focus of teaching. After all, human beings are social animals and need to receive more comprehensive information. Everyone is in the same room and feels the subtle changes in temperature, atmosphere, and mental activities. I think this is more conducive to the spark of thinking, instead of everyone being separated by screens, seeming to be in class together, but thinking is already chaos and disorder.