This week learning were about Scholarship skills. Scholarship Skills or Kesarjanaan in malay language is Information Management Skills and Lifelong Learning Skills. Information Management Skills is the collection, storage, dissemination, archiving and destruction of information. This means that this skills enables someone to use their time, resource and expertise effectively to make decisions and to fulfil their roles. Lifelong Learning Skills is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability, as well as competitiveness and employability.
There are some components of these scholarship skills. The first one is ability to find and manage relevant information from multiple sources. This ability enable someone to have resources anywhere and not stuck into one and a few resources. The second is ability to receive new ideas and capabilities for autonomous learning. This ability lets someone to explore ideas not only in their mind but also from something else around them and this ability also eenable someone to learn something new by self-study. The third is ability to develop a curiosity mind and hunger for knowledge. This ability change a mind of someone to have a curiosity towards something that are necessary for them to know and this ability also develop a non- satisfying feelings towards knowledge. The last one is ability to use systematic research methods. This ability is a very necessary ability because in finding informations, someone should search it in facts and not just some fiction kind of information and make it up.
All of those components should be apply because all of those components are abilities that can ensure us to be success in whatever we for example our jobs in the future and whatever we do in the future. It is an important lesson for us for our better future.
For livelong learning skills, it is some ability that can make someone motivated to learn and develop with their own willingness and can also be said voluntary act. This ability can enhance someone understanding of the world around and can provide more and better opportunities and improve our quality of life.
There are lots of benefits from this ability that includes improving self-confidence, learning practical life skills, keeping the brain healthy and making mind sharp and also having a lesson for leisure. There are some ways to improve lifelong learning skill. The ways are encourage learning ownership, turning mistakes to opporturnities, setting learning goals and many more.
In this week, we were also taught about plagiarism. Plagiarism is something that are vatally bad for everyone. It is an act of taking or stealing someone else work or anything that has been made by someone and claimed one’s own. Plagiarism can also be called as thieves but not in itself a crime, but like counterfeiting fraud can be punished in a court for prejudices caused by copyright infringement, violation of moral rights, it is a serious ethical offense.
Plagiarism is also known by the presenting the words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own. Even a bit of impostering as taking the sound of things by someone is plagiarism. That is how fatal a plagiarism are. That is the reason of this learning in this class. Our lecturer are teaching a way to avoid all of those actions of plagiarism in order for us to be success in the future without any trouble and any obstacle regarding plagiarism.
In order to avoid all of the plagiarism, we should make some citation if we are using some resources. We should make it clear that everything that we use as resources are created or made by someone else. We can also put the name of the resources near the words or ideas. This is very important because, we should appreciate all hardwork of the people we choose to resources.
Some reasons that made someone to do a plagiarism are commonly because of their excuses. They made thousands of excuses to not finding a new words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of their own. That are the reasons that we should stop giving excuses in trying to do something and prevent plagiarism.
In conclusion, in this class, we learned that we should always be thirsty in having knowledge in the world as it is are very usefull throughout our lifes. We also should never give excuses if we want to gain success and the most importantly is, we should never try to take others ideas as we called a plagiarisms.