This week I have been looking at my fellow cohort’s blogs. I mean I have really been looking at what they have written the past few weeks. As the 650 class has slowly chewed up and spit out endless counts of theory, the class has taken a large step forward into adult learning. This week was not absorbed with theory overkill, it was plain and simple.
As my fellow classmates shared their previous academic student/teacher experiences with the rest of the class, I thought about this whole “blog” exercise a little bit more. Can you have critical thinking and assessment in a “non-directional” journal style? What does non-directional mean? If it’s mass confusion and incoherent thoughts, then I am on the right track. I have a hard associating assessment and critical thinking with a “non-directional exercise.”
Rex asked a great question in his week six blog. “Is it a blog if no one reads it?” That question has a lot of legitimacy to it. If you wanted to answer that by saying a book is a book because it’s published and therefore it does not have to be read. Getting published on the internet is not quite the same as getting published via press. In fact, it’s night and day.
On to the seminar reflection:
This week was probably the most enjoyable because it wasn’t so theory based. It’s difficult to read a few summarized versions of some of the greatest academic researchers of all time and then translate years of their work into a few pages. This week was pretty cut and dry, adult learning! Jessie really posed some interesting questions in the discussion boards. She used two popular forms of assessment, observation and reflection. She asked the cohort to reflect back on our days as a student and reflect upon our experiences in classroom participation methods.
Jessie used the term “reeseen” this week. Other than the grammar issues, this term really caught my eye. Interviews always ask the question, “How do you see yourself….?” What the interviewers fail to ask is how the interviewee has reflected on that vision, measured the process, and readjusted their rationale. As life long learners, I would more interest in the second question than the first.
I wanted to thank Jessie for the opportunity she gave the class to do some personal reflection in the discussion board. Besides, reflection is a part of critical thinking, assessment, and adult learning.
As my fellow classmates shared their previous academic student/teacher experiences with the rest of the class, I thought about this whole “blog” exercise a little bit more. Can you have critical thinking and assessment in a “non-directional” journal style? What does non-directional mean? If it’s mass confusion and incoherent thoughts, then I am on the right track. I have a hard associating assessment and critical thinking with a “non-directional exercise.”
Rex asked a great question in his week six blog. “Is it a blog if no one reads it?” That question has a lot of legitimacy to it. If you wanted to answer that by saying a book is a book because it’s published and therefore it does not have to be read. Getting published on the internet is not quite the same as getting published via press. In fact, it’s night and day.
On to the seminar reflection:
This week was probably the most enjoyable because it wasn’t so theory based. It’s difficult to read a few summarized versions of some of the greatest academic researchers of all time and then translate years of their work into a few pages. This week was pretty cut and dry, adult learning! Jessie really posed some interesting questions in the discussion boards. She used two popular forms of assessment, observation and reflection. She asked the cohort to reflect back on our days as a student and reflect upon our experiences in classroom participation methods.
Jessie used the term “reeseen” this week. Other than the grammar issues, this term really caught my eye. Interviews always ask the question, “How do you see yourself….?” What the interviewers fail to ask is how the interviewee has reflected on that vision, measured the process, and readjusted their rationale. As life long learners, I would more interest in the second question than the first.
I wanted to thank Jessie for the opportunity she gave the class to do some personal reflection in the discussion board. Besides, reflection is a part of critical thinking, assessment, and adult learning.
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