TRW Session: January 29th, 2014

Session initiated with a 10 minutes writing activity, in which we had to recall our previous lecture [28/1/14] and summarize on a sheet of paper. After ten minutes elapsed, we told our main points to the instructor and he noted them on whiteboard. Surprisingly, none of us knew what we were doing. It was evident that no one thought about the agenda of the writing activity. Either the ideas presented were distorted, or the points were too vague. While our points were being discussed, the instructor cleverly dealt with criticism, yet he sounded quite neutral. As if, he was not saying or implying anything upon us. Rather he was planting a seed in our minds, which had the ability to make us realize what we did wrong. I realized during the analysis that there was no vision, nor was there any conclusive approach. Almost all the students directed their mind and energy in completing the activity within a span of 10 minutes ignoring the real purpose behind that activity. It was supposed to be an article but rather we wrote it like an episode.

We simply failed to plan.