I feel like this could be remedied by being taught a standard way to edit and revise

Every single peer review session i have done this is what happens. It is helpful but not the goal

I think this is a problem in lot of academic writing. Students just focus on the quantity and meeting that page requirement and not the quality of the work.

I think this sounds good on paper but personally feel as if more structure can be useful

sort of the study smarter not harder thing. If student can identify what works best for them so they can learn more efficiently then they can learn more overall and not be as overwhelmed.

In all of my experiences with reflective journals in an educational setting they have been required by my professor. I found the tendency of these journals was to just recap what had been done in the course of the class. I also found them being assigned just as an assignment and nothing really being taken from the reflection, this then made it just something to do just for the grade and not for real self evaluation.

Does this mean that students must be taught the strategies first before they can think about and use them?

I think it is problematic to assign a one size fits all solution to learning processes for different individuals

So all of the perks of a liberal arts education essentially?

So meta

This connects to the topic I discussed when we talked about activist media two weeks ago. The image of these big corporations is very important to them, and a long voice representing them in not ideal in producing a solid image. The voice of many gives the illusion that others are involved.

I think this applied perfectly to the internet. The internet makes it easier than ever to connect with people across the country and even across the world. I think that when people hide behind a keyboard and profess opinions and such over the internet they become (in their mind) much braver and more intelligent than in real life. This results in the disconnect from what they would say on the internet to what they would say in person.

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It is easy to study and work just to get the grade but not to retain the information after the grade has been given.

I think this could be translated into not knowing what the professor is looking for. The process and the product itself can b limited to what the student believes will make the professor happy and ultimately get them the good grade.

Flexibility in the context of education is an extremely valuable tool. Learning is a process that cannot be laid out at the beginning of the semester with no fluctuations.

I feel as if more levels and a greater break down would be more efficient just based on what I have read so far about grading contracts.

I throughly appreciate the idea of a grading contract however I feel like it will be an adjustment just for this simple fact. At the end of the semester most students are just worried about what grade is going on their transcripts and not how or how much of the information is actually retained.

Can also serve as a personal filing cabinet. Useful for things like building portfolios, where you can go back and present past work.

Sort of draws similarities to getting a child a puppy of their own and making them take care of it themselves, therefore teaching them responsibility.

Or by association, monitor themselves what the post, and how they present themselves online.

It could also translate as a warning about other previously used forms of social media. It demonstrates what little control they have of the content they post of other sites.

This also can somewhat instill a sense of pride in what students produce. Instead of just turning it in for a grade and never seeing it again past that point, it follows the student making them want to only produce the best they can.

UMW Blogs is a tool that has been encouraged and made necessary in many of my other classes. The blog is your own however, it is run and managed by the school itself.

Education is so susceptible to this because communication and connections are so important in the learning process.

New methods of learning and teaching, and most new innovations don't always take right away. They need time for people to really see what they are all about before people will trust them, and make them really useful.

The Google scale, while a mostly good thing, can be used for negative. If many different aspects of google are used by one person, that allows for many different aspects of that persons life to be transfered into data and then acquired by outside sources.

This method of thinking could be a possible hinderance of innovation. If when thinking and creating ideas, one shouldn't be bogged down with wondering "Does it scale?".

Wouldn't this be a good thing for academia? I feel like the organization of the information could only be used as a tool.

There has been a shift in original product produced from Google. Previously used as a means of finding things on the web, there has been a sort of "rebranding" of Google into producing technological innovations.