Throughout a person’s journey through formal education,there is a point at which the goal turns from learning to simply memorizing, regurgitating for a test or paper, and then forgetting. This happens to almost everyone. If this is not reversed, a person will never truly learn and remember anything. For some who are lucky, they realize this change and then revert back to a process in which they are productively learning information. Reflective writing is what can allow the person to notice this change by beginning to do it, and continuing this process will allow them to then revert back to really learning what is being taught to them. Reflective writing calls for an individual to refer to the information that they learned, and their perception
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However there are also cost of reflective writing. ONe cost of reflective writing is that, to produces a piece of reflective work that will be beneficial, it takes time to think about and produced. Coming from a college student, I have a great deal of work that I need to do in a day, and if I were to try and do information webs for all the topics that I leanred, I would not get all my work done, While I do occasionally make information webs are content that I find exceptionally challenging, I cannot do this all the time. Another cost could be the ideas that one discovers about themselves or others could be something that the individual has wished to not know. This is a danger of reflective writing in general. While I have never come across anything in my reflective writing that has driven me to discover something personal about myself that I wish I had not known, however this may not be true of someone else. For example, when I began doing my information webs, it was upsetting for me to realize that my passion for Science had taken a backseat to getting a good grade. However this is something that I am happy I discovered because I was able to adjust my behavior, but again this may not be possible in every case. Overall I find the reflective writing that we do in this class very beneficial. Reflective writing has taught me a great deal about that people, myself included, learn and perceive information, and how the information affects the teaching and learning
However there are also cost of reflective writing. ONe cost of reflective writing is that, to produces a piece of reflective work that will be beneficial, it takes time to think about and produced. Coming from a college student, I have a great deal of work that I need to do in a day, and if I were to try and do information webs for all the topics that I leanred, I would not get all my work done, While I do occasionally make information webs are content that I find exceptionally challenging, I cannot do this all the time. Another cost could be the ideas that one discovers about themselves or others could be something that the individual has wished to not know. This is a danger of reflective writing in general. While I have never come across anything in my reflective writing that has driven me to discover something personal about myself that I wish I had not known, however this may not be true of someone else. For example, when I began doing my information webs, it was upsetting for me to realize that my passion for Science had taken a backseat to getting a good grade. However this is something that I am happy I discovered because I was able to adjust my behavior, but again this may not be possible in every case. Overall I find the reflective writing that we do in this class very beneficial. Reflective writing has taught me a great deal about that people, myself included, learn and perceive information, and how the information affects the teaching and learning