BA30030E

Personalised Learning

Week 2: The Importance of Reflection

Cilliers Diedericks

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• Announcements

• Recap of last week lecture

• Recap of last week seminar

• Overview of this week lecture By the end of today, you will:

• Today’s seminar activities

• Learn about the framework to help
you reflect.
• Reflect on your key skills.

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Have you?
• Assessment – Read the assessment brief to
understand the components of the
assessment? They are important. - You need
to start preparing and gather questions for
next session.
• Take Home Exercise: Attempted the take
home exercises and understand how they
apply. How about all other independent
study activities?

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RECAP
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 Provide opportunities for
academic/personal development
to help you progress to level 4

What is
personalised Develop skills to be a reflective
and successful learner
learning?
Provide support for level 3
assignments (other modules)

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Assessments

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Assessment

•One assessment divided into three parts:

•Part A – Weekly Reflective Journal
•Part B – Personal Learning & Development Plan
•Part C - Personal Learning & Development Interview

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 Reflective Journal
• Approx. 1800 words - formative feedback
• Starts from week 1
• Use the template provided on BB

Assessment • Record what you learn from weekly sessions and

how you can improve your skills

Part A • Formative submission of weekly reflective journal

in week 8

• SEE Slides 46 - 48

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 •Personal Development and Learning Plan

Assessment •What is a PDP/Why is it a useful tool?

•Show template on BB
Part B •Go through detailed brief from MSG
•Formative and summative submission

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 •PDP Interview
•PDP Interviews to be held over weeks 12 and 13
with Francisca or Paul OR Francisca and Paul.
Interviews will be audio recorded for grading
purposes.

Assessment •You will need to bring your completed reflective

journal and personal learning and development plan
Part C with a cover page; you will also need to prepare a 3–
5-minute presentation based on these to a pre-
arranged interview (no slides are required). The
tutor(s) will listen to the presentation and ask
questions about the reflective journal and plan. This
interview will be audio recorded. There will be
opportunities to discuss the interview process and
obtain feedback in class.

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Today’s Agenda
The Importance of Reflection

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 The importance of reflection

How reflection can help your learning

Learning Reflection about something before you actually do

Outcome
it - Learning before doing

Reflection in action - Learning while doing

Reflection on action - Learning after doing

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This week
• Student Rep elections next week
• Review assessment Part A (weekly reflective journal)
• The value of reflection
• What is reflective learning?
• Reflective framework:
• Kolb’s Learning Cycle
• Gibb’s Reflective Cycle
• Reflecting on key skills
• Learning preferences questionnaire (Honey and
Mumford)

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Assessment

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Assignment Part A- reflective
journal
Who can remember what you have to do?

• Use template on Blackboard

• Weeks 1-10 should be included in the reflection
• Each entry should be 200 words +/- 10% (approx.
2200 words)
• Should be written in a reflective style
• Formative submission in week 8 via TurnitIn
• Summative submission in week 14 via TurnitIn

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 • What is the difference between formative and
summative submission?
• Formative means you submit your work to receive
feedback which can then be used to improve your
Assessments work further before you receive your final mark.
• VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU
• Summative means you submit your final work to
receive a final grade.

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QUESTIONS?

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Reflectio
n - video
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=y7jCmfIy7jk

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Thoughts from the video

• 3 things you learnt from the video?

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Reflection
Reflection is about you:
• Understanding what happened or where you are
now with an issue
• Being perceptive enough to see what happened
o Recognising how you felt

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Complete Activity 1 : Self-
reflection questions (20
mins)
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Form a group of 5 and
share some of your
thoughts with the
group-members.
Have a purposeful
discussion.
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Emotional
Intelligence
• What is emotional
intelligence?
• Intellectual IQ alone is not
enough
• How can university life
help with EI?

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EQ Model
• Video:
https://www.6seconds.org/
2010/01/27/the-six-seconds
-eq-model/

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Social
Intelligence
• EI – how we handle ourselves and
manage our emotion
• SI – having empathetic skills /
motivating & inspiring others / how to
work effectively with others
• Importance of feedback

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Reflective Learning
• Why is reflective learning important for us?
• Reflective learning helps students make the transition
from passive to active learners.
• What do I mean by this?

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 • So why is it important to know the difference?
o This is because you must concentrate on the
final objective: learning

Reflective • You want to learn and therefore, find the best way.
• Think about ways for yourself to learn not just

Learning study because you may spend hours studying

but feel that this has not helped you learn.
• So studying does not necessarily result in
learning.

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 • What is the difference, if any, between studying
and learning?

Reflective • Learn – to gain knowledge or skill by studying,

practising, being taught, or experiencing
something.
Learning • Study – to read, memorise facts, attend school,
etc., in order to learn about a subject

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Habits
• Bad habits hold you back
• Unless you analyse what you are doing – will remain
unaware of better ways of doing things
• Reflective learning is highly individual – no guidebook
on how it’s done
• Do not think of it as a task on a ‘to do list’ or squeezed

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 Habit: Questions
• Do you have any ‘bad’ habits?
• How do think this/these could impact your learning?
Group Work • How have you tried to overcome them/it?
• Share your thoughts with a classmate... (15 mins)

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Mindset
Mindset is important
• Fixed intelligence mindset
o Intelligence is static
o You have a certain amount of it
• Growth intelligence mindset
o Intelligence can be developed
o You can grow it with actions

Dweck, Carol (2006) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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Random House Publishing. New York
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Growth • Self-refection is important in order to achieve the
growth intelligence mindset – you have to believe
Intelligence that you can get better results with hard work and
that intelligence is not a fixed trait.

Mindset

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Frameworks to help you
reflect
• Kolb’s Learning Cycle (Kolb, 1984)
• Gibb’s Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988)

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 • David Kolb published his learning styles model in
1984.
Kolb’s • Kolb's experiential learning theory works on two
levels: a four-stage cycle of learning and four
Learning separate learning styles.
• “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is
Cycle created through the transformation of experience”
(Kolb, 1984, p. 38).

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 • How can I as a student apply Kolb to my studying?
Applying • Can you think of your experiences where Kolb’s

Kolb cycle can be applied?

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 Reflective Learning

• Reflection could be described as:

• thinking with a purpose
• being critical, but not negative
• analysing how effective your learning
is
• questioning and probing
• making judgements and drawing
conclusions

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Complete Activity 2 : Self-
reflection questionnaire
Reflecting on your key skills
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Maintain the same
group and share some
of your thoughts with
the group-members.
Have a purposeful
discussion.
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 • Complete the 2 pages questionnaire individually
Self-reflection (20 mins)
• Share some of your thoughts with the group
questionnaire: members.

Reflecting • Use the handout to consider your key skills at this

on your key point in time. The table on the handout offers
some suggestions but feel free to use your own.
skills

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Final Thoughts???

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Reflective Journal

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 Reflective Journal

• See reflection as complementary to your study

• Use it to clarify your thoughts and focus on your development
• Record your thoughts on any difficulties or challenges you are facing
• Think about any strategies that might help you deal with difficult tasks
or assignments
• Use it to help you think about how the topics relate to other areas of
your experience

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 Reflective Journal

• Get used to reflecting on your experiences as a part of everyday

learning
• In this way every experience, positive/negative will contribute to your
development/personal growth
• GROWTH - INTELLIGENCE - MINDSET

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 Ho w t o w r it e r efl ecti vel y

• Think of the 10 hours you prepared before you came to class, the
3hours you spent in class, and the additional extra time you revised.
• REMEMBER, the slides you did in class is only a very small part of
information, you do not need to tell me what is on the slides… I can
read for myself!
• You simply need to mention the main topic we did in that week. The
module is called Personalised Learning, so what did you learn about
YOURSELF, not the content!!!
• The process of reflective writing requires you to be honest about the
situation and your own responses.
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 Ho w t o w r it e r efl ecti vel y…

• Some of the questions that you should consider when you are writing your reflective assignment
are:

• Feelings
• Consider what you were thinking and feeling at the time.
• What had you expected to happen or to find?
• Were your expectations met?

• Positives
• Try to think of things that went well or according to plan.
• What was encouraging or showed progress?
• What did you enjoy or consider of value?

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 Ho w t o w r it e r efl ecti vel y…

• Some of the questions that you should consider when you are writing your reflective assignment
are:

• Negatives
• Consider what went badly or did not go according to expectations and plans.
• Is there any aspect that could have gone differently?
• How do the positives and negatives relate and impact on each other?
• How important were the things that went wrong?

• Actions
• What are you going to do differently in this type of situation next time?
• What steps you are going to take based on what you have learned?
• What are you going to do next?
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References

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Questionnaire – Take Home Exercise

• Complete the questionnaire on key skills if you are yet to do so.

• Do you agree with your reflection?
• Bring your answers to class and compare with a partner?
• Read the article titled: “Learning Through Reflection” and “Applying Gibb’s Reflective
Model”.

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How much
contribution have you
made to your
Academic Success
‘Piggy Bank’, this
week?

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How can I help you?
Any question concerning the lesson?
Any question concerning the assessment?

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