Active Reading: Bain
After reviewing my notes and annotations for Bain’s What the Best College Students Do, on chapter 2, “What Makes an Expert?”, I have noticed a tremendous amount of improvement in my active reading. Before this semester, my notes would have consisted primarily of highlights. Now, along with highlighting, I also am making comments, questions, suggestions, and most importantly, self connections. My goal to further improve my notes, is to be more organized and possibly add some color coordination, so that…
Check In
I have had issues downloading the Audacity app, so I am going to need support from either digi-space or from the teacher.
Learning Strategies: How Do I Learn?
In Ken Bain’s What the Best College Students Do, Bain explores the categories of learners, and their lasting effects. There are three current representatives of the modern learner: surface learning (guided primarily towards memorizing topics), deep learning (questioning and analyzing all aspects of learning), and strategic learning (learning materials, but with little to no motivation, according to Bain. I personally will admit that I have been strategic for some aspects of my high school and college careers. I personally don’t…
“The Editor”
Podcast series Criminal, episode 49, “The Editor”, entails on the journey of a man who had found a source of realism, despite spending nearly 17 years in prison. Robin Woods, had been arrested after multiple accounts of burglary and theft. He had been exposed to lots of police brutality and racism within the prison systems, and had little hope towards his future. The prison that Woods had been held in offered a program that was referred to as “library call.”…
Exploring Spaces Reflection
After reviewing the images of famous writers and their work-stations, I have noticed that the areas that they work in reflect their personality, along with their writings. After research of some of the authors, there would be connections that I made between their environment. For example, Henry Thoreau’s style of literature is simplistic and uses romanticism regarding his relationship spiritually with the environment. The picture of his writing area, consists of very few pieces of furniture and remains uncomplicated, just…
Active Reading Sample
After listening to the Ted Talk, given by Carol Dweck, I had been given the opportunity to review her speech by reading a transcript and annotating the data in order to support data in an essay. I now realize that I should have focused more time into annotating with notes and highlights, for I only have two comments on my papers, both of which, are questions. The types of questions that I had written ask why and how the process…
Mindset: Fixed and Growth
A time period when I experienced a “growth mindset” was throughout my career in dance. I had started around the age of 8, and I had struggled with moving up in the ranks of other dancers for at least 2 years. As a child, it was difficult to process that I needed more practice in order to be able to join older classes. I felt pressured to always rank up at a constant rate each year. However, once I got…
Comparison Reflection
After reviewing my rough and final drafts of the class assignment, I have noticed that my revisions are more surfaced rather than global. Surface revisions are little edits that are made in order to give clarity and polish a piece of writing. Global revisions are guided towards the structure of the writing, and relate more towards the quality of the content. Something that I should’ve taken into account while editing my rough draft, was that I had the opportunity to…
Peer Review Reflection One
Peer review is commenting and making suggestions towards the written work of others. I personally nit-pick my peers work in order to make sure that their essays make sense to anyone and everyone. What I typically do is suggest that my peers change certain words or phrases in they essays, which isn’t the number one priority in essays. Therefore, I need to show personal effort in looking at paragraphs as a whole and determining if the writer is guiding their…
