What’s the point of University?
More than training you to complete tasks
More than a guide to today’s software
Much of what you learn now will be obsolete in 5 years!
Develop the skills and strategies to help you continually develop over your professional career
Learning through doing
More than just a training course
Stop and think
Demonstrate what you have learned
Not enough to just do – have to understand
Reflective Learning
Schön (1983) suggests that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice.
Applies in many contexts
Practical work
Assignment work - especially when things go badly
Marks and feedback
How would you grade your work?
Why do we ask? Get you to look at mark guidelines Reflect on what you have written Do you have time for a re-write to do better?
Students often realistic at this task
What went wrong?
Do Be honest Point out problems Reflect on what you
accomplished and how you could improve
Don’t Trot out the old
faithful “Better time management”
Be evasive Be vague Ignore the issues
Marking self-evaluation
Not an attempt to get you to confess to a bad assignment!
If there are marks for evaluation, you will gain the marks by being Honest Reflective Constructive
These are marks to be gained not lost!