Critical Reflection UCS 1001

At the start of the module, I set out with 2 personal goals in mind:

1. Processing Information from the Speaker’s Point of View

2. Achieving Bias-Free Communication

 

Being able to process information from the speaker’s point of view was especially challenging for me, as we were often clouded with our own ideals, ego and mindset that we are always so fixated on. I heavily believed in this, as processing the same information which a different set of perspective, reasoning, and thoughts. This very belief has reiterated itself multiple times throughout the project and my own reader response. During the reader response phase, I was mainly following Emmanuel's guidance for the technicalities of the FCU and mainly reading off the sources that he provided. However, when I let GenAI took over the search tool, it brought me to wonder if there was a bias in each article and what was their Point of View (POV) behind it. This led me to drift further away from Emmanuel’s train of thought and our reader responses has 2 different opinions. Not being the full Subject Matter expert in this, I had doubts if the content was correct, when I consulted Emmanuel and Professor Brad, both of them gave a general conclusion: Everyone views will be definitely different and take a different approach to each topic. It dawned onto me that it is okay for me, to not conform to what the subject matter experts say if you have the evidence. This has stuck with me for the rest of the trimester and even until now when I do my own programs for training as a constant reminder to myself to view information from the creator POV. When presenting a notion, be fearless when you have solid evidence that you have gathered. This way, you will be able to process information from your Point of View clearly and know how to process others the same way you did with your work.

 

Bias free communication started off an objective for me, had only turned into a vision for me. For myself during the project, I often found myself in situations that I was constantly using my own experiences to best do what is required from the project. However, that was only limited my field of view of how I did the project with my teammates. When my teammates were to trying to aim for a different perspective towards how the report would be done, the first thought that came to me was the fact that this would not go with the initial flow. This led to us having many heated disagreements, and having my teammates to jolt me out of my own framework to view things from another perspective. It seemed that everything seemed to revolve back on the same point of processing information from differing perspectives. Without looking and listening in detail into that same piece of information from a differing perspective, how are we supposed to determine if there is possible bias in our communication? To add on, everyone has differing experiences in their life of history. This generates differing perspectives towards issues which leads to differing minds. Hence, the only way to achieve bias-free communication is to only let go off all your perspectives and look at the subject as objectively as possible. Although I did not manage to achieve it in this module, this vision will continue to a constant target that I aspire to achieve as I progress on in life.