{"id":1086,"date":"2015-08-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:40:22","slug":"reflecting-on-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/2015\/08\/14\/reflecting-on-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/files\/2015\/08\/child-856132_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1087 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/files\/2015\/08\/child-856132_640-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Child looking into mirror\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1504\/files\/2015\/08\/child-856132_640-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1504\/files\/2015\/08\/child-856132_640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe do not learn from experience&#8230; we learn from reflecting on experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015 John Dewey<\/p>\n<p>Reflection can be a powerful addition to any module or course both for instructors and for students. Instructors can inform themselves about student learning and whether their teaching is effective. Students can deepen their learning through reflection.\u00a0\u00a0 Reflecting both on knowledge gained as well as areas of confusion can be valuable.<\/p>\n<p>What types of reflective activities are of use in an online course?\u00a0\u00a0 Two of the simplest activities to incorporate in a course are the Muddiest Point activity or the One Minute Paper activity.\u00a0\u00a0 Both are short activities in which students answer questions after a brief reflection on their learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muddiest Point: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What concept was the \u201cmuddiest\u201d to you during this week, that is, which concept was most unclear?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Minute Paper:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was the most important thing you learned during this week?<\/li>\n<li>What important question remains unanswered?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reflection questions can be general or can be more specific. An instructor may want general feedback on a module in the course or they may want students to reflection on a specific field experience, collaborative group project, difficult concept, lecture, reading, etc. Reflective questions can be general or specific.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the online classroom in which there are many active learning opportunities, adding in extra reflection activities to an already busy schedule can seem overwhelming. One solution to effectively create reflection activities online is to use the Graded Survey option within Canvas (under Quizzes). Canvas will automatically give the student full credit for submitting the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reflection does not have to add significant time to the student\u2019s workload, does not have to add significant time to the faculty workload, and can teach students the value of reflection which can be applied to their own lives and to their workplace.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascd.org\/publications\/books\/108008\/chapters\/Learning-Through-Reflection.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Learning Through Reflection<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/let-it-marinate-reflection-closing-joshua-block\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Let It Marinate: The Importance of Reflection and Closing<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/tep\/resources\/newteach\/fifty_cats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">50 CATS<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cWe do not learn from experience&#8230; we learn from reflecting on experience.\u201d \u2015 John Dewey Reflection can be a powerful addition to any module or course both for instructors and for students. Instructors can inform themselves about student learning and whether their teaching is effective. Students can deepen their learning through reflection.\u00a0\u00a0 Reflecting both&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/2015\/08\/14\/reflecting-on-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50450,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}