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wk 9 GRV nominalisation and collocations

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Kolb’s Learning Styles & Experiential Learning Cycle

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Kolb’s Learning Styles theory identifies four types of learners: converging, diverging, assimilating, and accommodating. These styles are part of his Experiential Learning Cycle, which involves four stages: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The cycle emphasizes learning through experience, reflection, conceptualization, and testing new ideas.

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Examine the components of reflective writing Reflective writing includes several different components: description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and future application. Reflective writers must weave their personal perspectives with evidence of deep, critical thought as they make connections between theory, practice, and learning. The steps below should help you find the appropriate balance among all these factors.

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Learning Objectives

Examine the components of reflective writing

Reflective Writing

Reflective writing includes several different components: description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and future application. Reflective writers must weave their personal perspectives with evidence of deep, critical thought as they make connections between theory, practice, and learning. The steps below should help you find the appropriate balance among all these factors.

1st Step: Review the assignment

As with any writing situation, the first step in writing a reflective piece is to clarify the task. Reflective assignments can take many forms, so you need to understand exactly what your instructor is asking you to do. Some reflective assignments are short, just a paragraph or two of unpolished writing. Usually the purpose of these reflective pieces is to capture your immediate impressions or perceptions. For example, your instructor might ask you at the end of a class to write quickly about a concept from that day's lesson. That type of reflection helps you and your instructor gauge your understanding of the concept.

Other reflections are academic essays that can range in length from several paragraphs to several pages. The purpose of these essays is to critically reflect on and support an original claim(s) about a larger experience, such as an event you attended, a project you worked on, or your writing development. These essays require polished writing that conforms to academic conventions, such as articulation of a claim and substantive revision. They might address a larger audience than you and your instructor, including, for example, your classmates, your family, a scholarship committee, etc. It's important before you begin writing, that you can identify the assignment's purpose, audience, intended message or content, and requirements.

2nd Step: Generate ideas for content

As you generate ideas for your reflection, you might consider things like:

Recollections of an experience, assignment, or course

Ideas or observations made during that event

Questions, challenges, or areas of doubt

Strategies employed to solve problems

A-ha moments linking theory to practice or learning something new

Connections between this learning and prior learning

New questions that arise as a result of the learning or experience

New actions taken as a result of the learning or experience

3rd Step: Organize content

Researchers have developed several different frameworks or models for how reflective writing can be structured. For example, one method has you consider the "What?" "So what?" and "Now what?" of a situation in order to become more reflective. First, you assess what happened and describe the event, then you explain why it was significant, and then you use that information to inform your future practice. Similarly, the DIEP framework can help you consider how to organize your content when writing a reflective piece. Using this method, you describe what happened or what you did, interpret what it means, evaluate its value or impact, and plan steps for improving or changing for the future.

The DIEP Model of reflective writing

The DIEP model (Boud, Keogh & Walker,1985) organizes the reflection into four different components:

Remember, your goal is to make an interpretive or evaluative claim, or series of claims, that moves beyond obvious statements (such as, "I really enjoyed this project") and demonstrates you have come to a deeper understanding of what you have learned and how you will use that learning.

In the example below, notice how the writer reflects on her initial ambitions and planning, the a-ha! moment, and then her decision to limit the scope of a project. She was assigned a multimodal (more than just writing) project, in which she made a video, and then reflected on the experience:

Student Example

Keeping a central focus in mind applies to multimodal compositions as well as written essays. A prime example of this was in my remix. When storyboarding for the video, I wanted to appeal to all college students in general. Within my compressed time limit of three minutes, I had planned to showcase numerous large points. It was too much. I decided to limit the scope of the topic to emphasize how digitally "addicted" college students are, and that really changed the project in significant ways.

4th Step: Draft, Revise, Edit, Repeat

A single, unpolished draft may suffice for short, in-the-moment reflections, but you may be asked to produce a longer academic reflection essay, which will require significant drafting, revising, and editing. Whatever the length of the assignment, keep this reflective cycle in mind:

briefly describe the event or action;

analyze and interpret events and actions, using evidence for support;

demonstrate relevance in the present and the future.

Watch IT

The following video, produced by the Hull University Skills Team, provides a great overview of reflective writing. Even if you aren't assigned a specific reflection writing task in your classes, it's a good idea to reflect anyway, as reflection results in better learning.

You can view the transcript for "Reflective Writing" here (opens in new window).

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Examine the components of reflective writing Reflective writing includes several different components: description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and future application. Reflective writers must weave their personal perspectives with evidence of deep, critical thought as they make connections between theory, practice, and learning. The steps below should help you find the appropriate balance among all these factors.

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Transition Into Independent learning

There are lots of factors which makes it difficult for many of the students to suddenly change their way of learning from dependent to independent learning. The Higher Education Academy (2014) made an assertion that the work of students did not obtain any support, but before when they use to take help of their teachers and parents, they become unable to think freely. Without guidance, they may become demotivated that they cannot do their work without teachers especially. Although they sometimes find it hard to leave their old habit of seeking help every time into new such as, international students sometimes keep on doing their work by depending on teachers and their friends but later this makes them inferior or underrated. This sometimes directly leads to lack of confidence. Although it is valid point that the transition to an independent learner is challenging. However, the fact of the matter is that transition also is necessary stage for every student which provide motivation to students and experience of different situations and stages in order to succeed.

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Although it may be vaild point  that online learning can builds IT skills via online
but the fact of the matter  in my ponit of view is that in beginning of academic student life student should attend class offline rather than online as in starting student do not know how to use and it me cause into lack of skills and study for student.

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Although online study is eco-friendly because travelling to school pollutes the environment and on the other hand studing online will decrease our travelling a lot still ,we cannot ignore the negative areas of internet that will cause radiation around us and harm us. Such as  every electronic thing has a great radiation which is not good for health.

Although it may be true that online lectures save money from transportation but ,the fact of the matter is, one can borrow any other important thing for themselves. For example, a person can purchase a laptop or can pay for internet recharge.

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Although it is a valid point that online study saves money to commute from home to university ,  the fact of matter is the cost of heating and internet will cost the same and make no difference .

•Although it may be true that online study can be eco- friendly as we can save the fuel of travelling , we cannot ignore the use of energy electricity and  heating services to the students

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Although it may be true  that online learning can save money as students and teachers save the traveling cost. However, the fact of the matter is that are expenses when working from home. For example, this money is used for paying internet services and for buying technical gadgets.

Although it is a valid point that online learning helps in independent learning as students learn their own task own their own ,we cannot ignore that the chances of mistakes in independent learning are high.For instance, in independent learning there is no teacher to guide a student.

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Although it is valid point that online learning also saves money because it also save travelling cost ,we cannot ignore that this money is used for paying the  internet services and gadgets .

Although it is valid  point that online learning provides eco -friendly  because it decrease the pollution , we cannot ignore that it also increase  the level of heating.

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·         Although it is true that online study helps the students to learn  about IT education because they have to use a number of apps . However , we cannot denied that they will face lack of guidance because in online study they have to adopt  independent learning which is very new for them .

·         Even though it is correct that online study will save money as it remove transportation charge but it cannot be igorned thst the money which a student will save is going to utilize on the internet services such as wifi , laptops .

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Although it is a valid point that learning online can build IT knowledge as well as students are able to learn various apps. However, it is really hard for beginners to understand IT without the guidance of teacher.

Although it is a valid point that online study can save money by studying at home not to travel but it will charge for internet service as well as for the heating bills.

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Although it is valid that online learning gives the way to save money as by stopping transportation, however we cannot ignore that the money we save by no transportation get  consumed by internet expenses and bills.

· Even though it is valid that online learning provides eco-friendly environment in order to reduce pollution and overcome heating, However the evidence would indicates that it also cause harmful rays which actually affect the balance of surroundings and heating problems also cause when doing work together.