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1. What generic skills are specified by Jojo as expected learning outcomes for students?

ANS : Self-learning skills, communication skill and critical- thinking skills are the expected learning outcomes. Jojo starts by providing students with first- hand experience of inquiring into the issue of sound transmission. This gives students the opportunity to acquire self- learning skills since they will need to apply those first- hand knowledge into practice. Group work allows students to gain communications skills. In order to apply prior knowledge in conducting the experiments, the students have to to think critically on where to apply what knowledge.

2. How can the generic skills support student's exploration and understanding of sound transmission?

ANS: With the communication skills obtained through the experiments, students are able to come up with ideas and share with one another  in a decent and proactive manner. The students can become better presenters and listeners.
With the acquisition of critical  thinking skills, students will come up with conclusions based on the experiment results and relate them to the theories they have learnt.
Self- learning skills allow students to understand the concepts required for the experiments. It is the student's learning skills that help explore and conduct such experiment. This supports students' understanding of sound transmission

3. Are students adequately supported by jojo in conducting their tasks? Please explain briefly.

ANS: We believe that Jojo adequately supported her students to a large extent. First of all, she designed the group tasks and did provide the materials for her students. Moreover, she explained the rules on how to conduct the experiment in a smooth manner. However, we do believe that in terms of guidance, she can provide more guidance and monitor the progress of each group which can further enrich the students' entire learning experience.

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Q1. What generic skills are specified by Jojo as expected learning for students ?

Self-learning skills : Jojo just tells students the basic rules, student should study more knowledge by themselves to conduct the task.
Collaboration skills:  the form of group to conduct the tasks

Q2. How can the generic skill support students; exploration and understanding of sound transmission?

collaboration skill:  Group task will make everyone to engage in the activity. Besides, everyone has the chance to express their own opinions and improve the study efficiency. In this process, they could help each other and solve the problem timely. this kind of form is more freedom and have more time to communicate with others.

Self-learning skill: Jojo just briefly tells the rule about task. student are encouraged to learn the knowledge by themselves, in this process,  student will have a deeper understanding about the content, which could improve student learning ability and critical thinking.

Q3. Are students adequately  supported by Jojo in conducting their tasks ?

It is hard to define whether students are adequately supported by Jojo in
conducting their tasks, but Jojo did try to help her students, like briefing
students on the rules. We consider that this question depends on the individual
ability of students. Some student with lower ability may find it difficult or
confused by the experiment. At the same time, we don't know whether the teacher
would provide extra help during the process of experiment.

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1.What generic skills are specified by jojo as expected learning outcomes for students?

Ans: Collaboration skills and problem-solving skills

2.How can the generic skills support students’ exploration and understanding of sound transmission?

Ans: Collaboration skills and problem-solving skills are specified. The former is particularly conducive to the completion of group work, whereby aiding students to form conclusions based on results of the experiments. As the saying goes, two minds are better than one. Through collaboration, exchange of ideas may help students to construct their own understanding. When anything seems to go awry, a larger knowledge base can be immediately drawn on. It is through this process of trying, failing, and working out alternative ways that students learn the best. Speaking of seeking alternative ways, problem-solving skills are entailed. Students are given the problem, viz. to determine which materials are able to transmit sounds and draw a conclusion as regards the principles of sound transmission. To solve the problem, the whole group will work out ways proactively, rather than relying on the help of teachers’ explicit instructions, to finish the group activity.

3. Are students adequately supported by jojo in conducting their tasks? Please explain briefly.

Ans: I think, to a certain extent,  Jojo adequately supports students. She has provided various materials for the experiment as much as she can and make sure the experiment process can deliver the knowledge intended to convey. Also, Jojo has briefed students on the rules and instructions of the experiment so that students will have a clear direction. Most important of all, safety measures will then be carefully adhered to by students after reminders at the very beginning. However, she should pay more attention to the progress of each group amidst the experiments by walking around and answering queries if need be. As such, she can be rest assured that the whole class is heading towards the same goal and having everything under control.

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1.Critical thinking skill: After doing the experiments, students apply appropriate thinking skills and draw conclusions that sound can be transmitted through different materials such as water and solids. From our points of view, therefore, critical thinking skill is one of the generic skills which Jojo specified as the expected learning outcome of this class activity.

Communication skills- Through conducting a mini-experiment during the class, students will discuss with classmates about how those provided materials (e.g. iron keys and paper cups) can be used for the sound transmission and compare which material can transmit sound more quickly.

Collaborative skills- students will form a small group for the group activity. They have a chance to work with classmates by allocating work based on their group tasks. By doing this, students will learn to respect others opinions as well as help each other to solve problems.

2. The teacher has meticulously planned the teaching material as could be seen by the PowerPoint, video clip and the activity that have been prepared by the teacher previously.  However, there was no indication that the teacher has provided support for the students during the experiment in terms of assisting the students in discovering the effect of sound transmission. Although the teacher has explained the instruction before the activity began, in our opinion, it is unrealistic to expect students to complete the activity without any inquiries.

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Question 1. What generic skills are specified by Jojo as expected learning outcomes for students?
Collaboration skills - they need to do group work.
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Self- management skills

Question 2. How can the generic skill support students' exploration and understanding of sound transmission?
If we take communication and collaboration skills as an example, it may be hard for the students themselves to find out the answer on their own. By grouping with their schoolmates, they can discuss the topics together and share their knowledge and opinios.
Also since Jojo has provided them with the rules in conducting the experiment, the students are then given the freedom on how they would act/perform the experiment on the basis of the rules. It is then up to the individual students in each groupp on how they should manage themselves in contribution to be efficient with the experiment as a team.
In terms of critical thinking, Jojo has deliberately designed the experiement to be multifaceted, as each group is required to observe how the sound is transmitted through the different materials (such as strings, glasses filled with water, paper cups and desks). In order to come up with a comprehensive observation on how sound transmission works, the students are given these 4 media to carefully and critically investigate and consider in their groups.
This requires them to think critically on how certain medium affects the effectiveness of sound transmission.

Question 3. Are students adequately supported by Jojo in conducting their tasks?  She does support her students since she has to demonstrate to the students before she allows them to do the activities. Especially since she has a solid conclusion of the content - thus it supports them well.

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1. Communication / collaboration skills, self-learning skills
2. Both communication and collaboration skills are required by the students to successfully cooperate to complete such group tasks. Students will need to talk and share ideas and opinions amongst their groups for a more enriched observation and overall experiment. Furthermore, as Jojo briefs his students of the rules and instructions for conducting the experiment for smoother operation, he is encouraging for a more autonomous learning experience.
3. I think students were adequately supported by Jojo, all the while giving students some independence in conducting their tasks as they were briefed of the rules before the experiment. However, since the group activity is an experiment, Jojo should ensure to monitor his students at all times in the process to prevent any accidents or miscond

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Q1. Self-learning skills; Collaboration skills; Communication skills

Q2. Self-learning skills: students need to observe the process of the experiment on their own in order to explore the sound transmission. Self-learning skills are also essential tools for students future learning.

Collaboration skills: in this case, group tasks are designed to assist students to understand sound transmission better. Groupmates can share what they have learnt with each other and deal with related problems together, which can largely improve the study efficiency. Also, they need collaboration skills to complete the experiment.

Communication skills: Students can use communication skills to beneficially acquire lecture content taught by the teacher and raise questions they encounter to Jojo. They also need to exchange what they have observed during group tasks. Moreover, communication skills can perfect students’ collaboration.

Q3. We think students are not adequately supported by Jojo in conducting their tasks. In this case, Jojo designed group tasks and also briefed students on the rules for conducting the tasks. However, she does not provide extra help during the process of the experiment. It may cause deviation about students’ first-hand experience and their acquisition of the knowledge. In addition, she cares less about the less-able students. She had better give more guidance to them and solve their problems immediately and patiently.