Soon Zhou's Reflections

From this PBL activity, I have learnt how to be selective in obtaining and presenting them in a proper way such that it is more directed towards the research question we are doing. This is helpful as it provides me with an organized flow of thought and ensures that the group is progressing towards the right direction. Also, I have learnt how to evaluate my thoughts using mindmaps as it allows me to expand and broaden my scope of thought, hence, considering all the aspects of the question itself.

I think that I have done well in organizing, processing and evaluating all the information gathered so that it only the useful information would remain and the group would not be confused in our direction. Also, I think I have also done well in presenting our solution and our research through a methodical and structured way so that the reader would be clear about our research, our decisions and our results.

What I could have done better was to include primary sources in my scope of research as all my information is gathered from secondary sources, hence, being less reliable. I think that I could also be better as a leader in coordinating the group such that the pace at which everyone is progressing is the same since we were unable to progress to the next stage of our research when a part of the information was not gathered yet.

The main difficulty in the PBL was having collated all the research we have done into the report as I would need to present it in a formal and informative way, yet, could be easily understood by others. Since Ms Chua stated that the report was somewhat like a book, I decided that I write it like a guidebook for people to understand LASIK more which helped me a lot when doing the report. Also, the mindmap was also a headache as I had to categorize all our findings into proper classes and summarize them; I had to spend time thinking through how I would compare each data and to see their similarities and differences. Trying to get some members to listen properly to instructions and not do things the way they preferred was also a problem, I solved it by processing and editing what they have done.