On Spirit of Service Day, I was associated with Student Senate and we volunteered at the FoodBank for the Heartland. It was a morning section, we left for the place around 8:30am and came back at noon. Our group was in charge of making food bags for children in need. Some students, due to the income of their family cannot afford meals. Usually, through having the family monthly income, the government determined which students to aid feed through public schools. During the weekdays, the selected students are given free breakfast and lunch. Unfortunately, during the weekends, they are left hungry. The FoodBank for the Heartland provide meals bags for them. Consequently, we packed different food items in bags and boxes. They are then shipped
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In this paper, the author states that service learning different from volunteering is its explicit academic component: like any test, paper, or research project, the service learning experience must be integral to the syllabus and advance of the student’s knowledge of the course content. I find it interesting that both paper highlights that in order for volunteering to become a learning experience, it must be tested over / reflected. This information does make me think of service in college differently by making sure I reflect on my volunteering experiences in order to make a learning experience. The second information I learned from this is concerning civic engagement. Before reading this paper, when I think of the term civic learning, it was always associated with politic or government based. It usually relates traveling to the town mayor’s office and bringing up a concern. I was unaware that most colleges associate it with service learning. To me service learning is associated with volunteering and reflection about the service. My view of college service has been slightly altered because of this information, because I now understand that college service learning is not the same as civic engagement. Civic engagement is a broader topic and umbrella, and could be associated with service learning and volunteering if
In this paper, the author states that service learning different from volunteering is its explicit academic component: like any test, paper, or research project, the service learning experience must be integral to the syllabus and advance of the student’s knowledge of the course content. I find it interesting that both paper highlights that in order for volunteering to become a learning experience, it must be tested over / reflected. This information does make me think of service in college differently by making sure I reflect on my volunteering experiences in order to make a learning experience. The second information I learned from this is concerning civic engagement. Before reading this paper, when I think of the term civic learning, it was always associated with politic or government based. It usually relates traveling to the town mayor’s office and bringing up a concern. I was unaware that most colleges associate it with service learning. To me service learning is associated with volunteering and reflection about the service. My view of college service has been slightly altered because of this information, because I now understand that college service learning is not the same as civic engagement. Civic engagement is a broader topic and umbrella, and could be associated with service learning and volunteering if