As we near the close of our first Module, it’s important that we think about the take-aways from it and how we want to improve for the second one.
Module 1 covered five main writing skills: the Writing Process, the Thesis Statement/Central Claim, Introductions, Paragraphing, and Incorporating Texts. Choose two of these skills and describe how you use the information in the course shell to help you work on that skill. Be specific, what information from a video or linked resources did you use and how did you try to apply it?
How successful do you feel like you were at deploying that skill? Any ideas on how you might continue to grow in mastering that writing skill?
What about the other writing skills? How well do you think you incorporated them into your work and where do you think you could grow?
Did you feel like you already know about these topics before coming to those pages? Be honest, were you open to the materials and possibly learning something new or did you skip over them? Don’t give me the answer you think I want to hear, this should be an honest reflection!
If you skipped over them, how might you not be engaged with the process of inquiry? Even if those pages just confirm what you already know, it’s more information that you take into the process of inquiry and confirm your own understanding, so even if for that alone it could be worth it! Do you agree or disagree?
Beyond the writing skills, what else do you think you might need to work on when it comes to the final draft of the first paper of the semester? You could also discuss how you plan to revise (not edit) your first draft and the impact you think those changes will have on your final product.
Your response should be a minimum of 500 words. Include the word count at the end.
反思学习是学习的重要组成部分。如果不考虑为什么某件事很重要或我们从中拿走了什么，我们就不会保留这些信息，或者它对我们来说意义不大。
事实上，教育哲学家约翰·杜威 (John Dewey) 有一个关于人如何从“学生”转变为“学习者”的理论。他发展了他所谓的探究模式。这是一个人就他们所做或不知道的事情提出问题的地方。然后，他们调查信息，探索信息的各个方面，甚至质疑他们认为自己已经知道的事情。从调查中，一个人得出结论。他们讨论并检验该结论以确保其有效性。最后，对信息进行反思，以确定它是保留还是扔掉的结论。然后循环重新开始。我们要么对新问题得出新结论，要么重新开始寻找问题的另一个答案。
下面是这个学习周期的表示，你将在一门课程中有多次学习周期，其中许多在一个学期中同时发生！每当你学习一项新技能时，这个循环就在起作用，所以想一想你在一天内有多少次决定是保留还是重新审视你得出的结论。这就是学习的乐趣！
