Question

Prepare a summary of your readings from this week. Be sure that your Learning Journal entry is a minimum of 500 words.

In the Learning Journal, be sure to describe:

A summary of key themes and concepts touched on in the readings.

Any preconceived ideas or notions on the readings and how the readings may have strengthened or changed your understanding or opinions about this topic.

Answer 1

A learning journal is a collection of notes, observations, thoughts & other relevant materials built‐up over a period of time & may a result of a period of study, learning or working experience. Its purpose to enhance your learning through the process of writing and thinking about your learning experiences. Your learning journal is personal to you and will reflect your personality, preferences &experiences.

We use learning journal because 1) It provide a “live” picture of your growing understanding of a subject experience 2) It shows how your learning is developed 3) To keep a record of your thoughts & ideas throughout your experiences 4)It helps to you to identify your strengths, the areas for improvement & preferences in learning

.A learning journal helps us to be reflective about learning, this proves journal should not be a purely descriptive account of what you did . An opportunity to communicate our thinking process: how and why you did what you did, and what you know think about what you did.

We consider reflective learning a process that requires time& practice & the active process states that involves the thinking through the issues & seeking out relevant informations that give aboost to understanding Reflective learning works when we think -what we are doing before, & after the learning experience ,its about reconizing something new & a new way of learning.

Reflection is an important skill to develop the personality as how you think & what is happening

The main contents in learning journal :A learning journal should focus on your personal responses, reactions and reflections to new ideas or new ways of thinking about a subject that you have been introduced through: 2) Workshops, seminars, training sessions 3) Research & reading including any visual research including television, film & internet 4) Conversations &discussions with other participants, like your Manager, Mentor, Coach & other colleagues Significant experiences in the organizations.

What & how to mention about :

About issues discussed at the learning event.

Any flashes of inspiration that you understand so far

How can you reach a better understanding

What do you need to know more about, & how can you go about finding out more

What resources have helped you to understand and been interesting to use

How do you feel about the way you have approached the subjectortopic so far

What new knowledge, skills or understanding have you gained during the process of writing y journa

Regarding your long term development;

Have you changed your opinions or values during the experience

How can we improve learning , thinking & working in the futures.

What will be the next step for development.

So, by the discussions we can strengthened the undrstanding about the topic.