Service-Learning Eye-Open Experience

Service-learning i.e. community service with organizations or out-class opportunities for communicational learning. First, it provides students an eye-open experience by “pushing” students out of their comfort zones to view the outside world. Second, service-learning helps students gain communication skills because they have to talk and interact with different group of people. Not only to view and to talk, but also to think. Students make connections between what we learn from the book and what we actually do during the service thus students make reflections to think about themselves and to make differences in the community. From service-learning, I personally learned that a lot of the poor who go to the “soup kitchens” are actually psycho
Second, effective communication improves our lives e.g. we need to present ourselves properly using effective communication skills so others can get the right information from us. Third, communication defines us e.g. what we received our young age most shaped our personalities and taught us the way we treat others.
First, a strong non-verbal communicator makes eye-contact with his/her audience. Second, he/she must have proper talking speed and tone pitch. Third, he/she could speak through gestures. I do not make eye contact with audience. I think need to become more confident when I talk to people or give a speech. “Reflection helps you integrate what you have been absorbing through the course content with the community external to the college campus.” An effective reflection model could be: identifying a project, planning and preparation, meaningful service experiences, observation, analysis, new understanding, new application. Reflection promotes learning by providing a logical process. We first need to know what we are going to study, and then we need to actually see and engage in the activity and then
For the intercultural communication, I learned that people are all from different backgrounds, and that is exactly what we called divers. Four concepts allow us to communicate well are knowledge, understanding, skills, and acceptance. This chapter did make me aware of divers since we are always so used to the way we have been brought up and reject differences. I was raised an atheist, so I do not believe if there is any higher power beyond our comprehension while most my friends are Catholic. The same as the example of Dr. Pagnotta’s diversitydna video: President Obama shook hands with the security guard which a foreign prime minister did not instead the prime minister smiled and knocked his head. I think the preferred ways of Dan Liang SCS 101 Professor Gerometta Oct 20th 2014 Midterm Service-learning i.e. community service with organizations or out-class opportunities for communicational learning. First, it provides students an eye-open experience by “pushing” students out of their comfort zones to see the outside world. Second, service-learning helps