There have been a lot of instances in past that I could talk about when it comes to learning and thinking. However, most clear example would have to be my senior project in high school. The senior project was essentially a one hour long multimedia presentation that you and a group worked on the last month of class. It required a lot of research and learning so that you could present the topic and sound like you know what you are talking about. When we were first presented with the rubric it was a bit scary. The presentation required visual sources, research papers, an entire book, and anything else you could think of. As I am mostly a reflective, and auditory learner, I used some unique strategies to absorb all the information I needed to do a good report. …show more content…
My group’s topic was failure. I chose a book that represented someone who failed in life and began to read. Just reading the book didn’t really fit my learning style and it was harder for me to retain information without going back into the text and rereading. I decided to download the audio book, and since I am an auditory learner, it turned out to work much better. I was able to have a set time on when I would finish the book and I understood it. I was even able to listen to it in two times speed and still understand everything that was going on. I feel that being an auditory learner allowed me to process the information in the book better than just reading it. It also allowed me to finish the book much faster than expected. Had I done the reading in a more traditional way I don’t think I would have been able to finish as fast as I did or understand the book as
The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on nursing skills that I used during my practice placement, most importantly reflecting on the professional value of privacy and dignity.
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The lived experience of managing for results in social services among key professionals emerged from summarizing and reflecting on the naïve reading, the sub-themes, and themes, all meaning that managing for results in social services mimic the experience of putting a jigsaw puzzle together where each piece has its own special place, but the puzzle can´t be fulfilled since those who put together the puzzle not pre-agreed on which the puzzle is to be pieced together those puzzles do not agree on which the puzzle is to be pieced together. In order to solve the puzzle, all involved has to feel that the chosen puzzle is meaningful and valuable piecing together meaning that it is first when the puzzle is solved that the wholeness can be understood. This overarching meaning incorporates the complexity in the lived experience of managing for results in social services together with a path for the future, desiring a more pre-agreed arena
While the semester is over and the deadline has expired, I thought I would write this to express my true intended thoughts.
The ability to reflect critically on one’s experience, integrate knowledge gained from experience with knowledge possessed, and take action on insights is considered by some adult educators to be a distinguishing feature of the adult learner (Brookfield 1998; Ecclestone 1996; Mezirow 1991). Critical reflection is the process by which adults identify the assumptions governing their actions, locate the historical and cultural origins of the assumptions, question the meaning of the assumptions, and develop alternative ways of acting (Cranton 1996). Brookfield (1995) adds that part of the critical reflective process is to challenge the prevailing social, political, cultural, or professional ways of acting. Through the process of critical reflection, adults come to interpret and create new knowledge and actions from their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary experiences. Critical reflection blends learning through experience with theoretical and technical learning to form new knowledge constructions and new behaviors or insights.
Throughout this semester I have learned a lot and has changed the way I view things. It has opened my eyes about all the inequality, discrimination and troubles in the world. I’ve enjoyed taking the time learning about how to expand my critical thinking. Before signing up for this class, my views on the world were very broad. I knew there were plenty of issues in the world but with the readings in the books, documentaries and clips it has made me see the issues in a very detailed way.
There was a significant amount of knowledge given in this course, involving concepts that in our teaching career will be extremely important. From this course I have gained a significant amount of learning experiences. I had the pleasure learning about how the educational system has come to be what it is today and who were the important people in the creation of the public education, like Horace Mann. Watching the videos and reading the chapters required has opened my eyes more of how a teacher should respond to different situations involving a student, For example when we read the chapter on the laws that revolve around the educators and the students. I had absolutely no clue that students had rights while in school property. Another learning
The bible teaches us about critical thinking and how it is unquestionably essential. We are all bombarded with a relentless multitude of information that frantically pounds our senses with information. We must make resolutions on religion, politics and social issues. As the great Friedrich Nietzsche once said “Doubt as sin. Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, events the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted, are the blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
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Auditory learners learn through listening. These learners tend to pay attention to lectures, tutorials, and group discussions to absorb the information. Auditory leaners focus on the textbook when it comes to studying or learning new material. If you read the material out loud, it allows you to better comprehend and grasp the information. It is helpful to engage in group discussions to talk among others about topics and concepts for a course.
Critical thinking is a significant and essential topic in recent education. The strategy of critical thinking skills helps identify areas in one's courses as the suitable place to highlight, expand and use some problems in exams that test students' critical thinking skills.
This is pretty much lecturing. Using your ears to learn instead of your eyes or hands. This is defiantly not for me, I scored a 3 on the Vark quiz and a 33% on the Edutopia quiz. With aural learning I tend to be the one falling asleep or trying to put the words into pictures to make sense of the lesson. Typically, after a lecture I will go home and watch a video on the topic so that I can see pictures and drawings of what’s going on. I don’t think aural learning is one of the favorite types of learning, but some people do learn best if they take a recording and listen to it over and over. A lot of ties if someone is an aural learner, they are also linguistic, so they will use words, ask questions and write
Everyone has a different view on how they learn and learning itself. First starting in EXP 105, my understanding of learning was new knowledge and becoming wiser. Taking EXP 105 has truly increased my knowledge of what learning is and the process of it. The most important thing I have learned about learning is that you observe the world around you, make sure it is understandable, and figure out the right way to respond. Learning also provides critical thinking skills. Everyone have different ways of learning and those ways are based on four different learning patterns. The four different types of learning patterns are Sequence, Precision, Technical Reasoning, and Confluence. Learning patterns are very helpful when it comes to everyday life, school work, and your job. Knowing your learning patterns and which ones you should use make
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”- Christopher Hitchens. Critical thinking is an important skill for people to possess. It allows us to hear a statement and analyze it based on logical reason and the existence of fallacies. I say that this is an important “skill”, because it takes practice and knowledge to be able to justify the validation of a particular statement and to remove your personal bias opinion of it. “The whole purpose of reasoning, of logic, is to arrive at the truth of things”. In this paper, I will discuss how the topics introduced at the beginning of this class connect to the current topics and I will talk about how taking this course has changed my personal views and way
“Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better” (Paul, n.d.). The prevailing concept I acquired from this course is the need to think about thinking, whether it is about the Bloom’s Taxonomy domains, cognition, metacognition, critical thinking, creative thinking or even my own assumptions. Reflecting on this, there is a need to investigate, apply, compare and contrast, support and refute these thinking processes as to how they relate, interact, and ultimately rely on one another as well as when, where and how they should