What concept in your discipline is like driving a car?

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    by Aaron Goldt (@agoldt)

    In teaching genetics labs, setting up PCR based assays can be like driving a car. There are many specific instructions we give students and they have a protocol to follow. However, there is often very little detail about how to organize tubes and racks when setting up PCRs. This type of organization is important to more… »

  • Like Driving a Car – Drawing a Dose
    by Adam Zalewski (@azalewski)

      A skill in nuclear medicine that is like driving a car is drawing a radioactive dose. There are many unique aspects to this much like getting in the driver’s seat for the first time. Many different senses help one drive. You must get used to the proper positions of your hands on the wheel. more… »

  • Tissue sectioning from a microtome in histotechnology is like driving a car
    by Dora Tsang (@tsando)

    Tissue sectioning from a microtome in histotechnology is like driving a car.  It requires many component skills, you need to know the different parts of the machine, called the microtome. You need to know where to put the tissue block, where to put the blade, where the drive wheel is, where the locking levers are, more… »

  • Driving a Car is like Creating a Treatment Plan?
    by Rahul Mohla (@rmohla)

    I am a radiation therapist and a treatment planner. and the current state of affairs is that I must use a treatment planning system to create an optimized plan. However, this is very much multifaceted in nature, no different than the multiple number of things a driver must be cognizant of while driving. In a more… »

  • Driving a Car and Patient assessment or management
    by Sam Gennidakis (@SGennidakis)

    The approach to direct patient management (e.g., emergency care and/or patient assessment/rounds) can be described as being similar to parking a vehicle. When you are trying to park, you approach in the parking lot with care and awareness of others and what state of movement or parking or other vehicles are in and their status. more… »

  • Like Driving a Car
    by anh lam (@anhlam)

    Writing for an asynchronous format is like driving a car. The components skills are: Audience – You have to know who you’re writing for; who you may be joining you on this journey. Setting – You need to understand the modality, in this case it’s asynchronous; where you’re going. Knowledge Checks – There is no more… »

  • Filmmaking Is like Driving a Car
    by Phillip McGregor (@PMcGregor)

    In filmmaking, as in driving, before you set off you must decide what your destination is and what route you plan to follow. And just like driving, where you may have to make detours to avoid traffic or road closures, or even having to backtrack a way, in filmmaking you may have to change what more… »

  • Like Driving a Car
    by Lucas Prestes (@Lucas Plautz Prestes)

    Learning educational technologies can be compared to driving a car, as both activities require specific skills and adaptation to the environment. Just as a driver must master the vehicle’s controls and sensors, education technologists need to familiarize themselves with the technological tools and resources available to promote an effective and meaningful learning experience. In the more… »

  • Driving a car is like life
    by winton cape (@winton)

    Being a well adjusted person is like driving a car. You have to master skills in each of the 3 stages to be a well balanced human being. De pendant – Basic needs skills …. being able to communicate the fulfillment of basic needs ( food, shelter, safety), language development, Motion development…etc Independent – Self more… »

  • Liking Diring a Car: How to determine the cost of a product or service
    by Peter Sheedy (@PeterS)

    The component skill would be how to calculate the cost of a product or service. To do this you must: Understand how cost is measured (basis of accounting) Understand the theory of cost categories like direct and direct costs, raw material, labour, direct overhead, indirect overhead etc.. Understand how to apply that theory to real-world more… »

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