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MANAGING YOUR MONEY ASSIGNMENT

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LEARNING JOURNAL
– CONSITUENT PARTS

  1. TUTORIAL PREPARATION AND LEARNING EVALUATION SHEETS
  2. GUIDANCE NOTES ‘Keeping a learning journal’
  3. ‘LEARNING JOURNAL TEMPLATE’ for your own use
  4. JOURNAL SUMMARY – TO BE SUBMITTED TO CANVAS by Wednesday 11th Dec. 2019 – deadline 4pm
    I have produced a Tutorial preparation / learning evaluation sheet (no. 1 in the list above) which you may use to form the basis of your journal. You can keep the same information in your own format (handwritten in a file, electronically or whatever suits you) but I will be checking during tutorials each week that you are keeping adequate records.
    YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE TUTORIAL IF YOU HAVE NOT PREPARED THE FIRST PART OF THIS IN ADVANCE!
    There are some guidance notes on the following pages (no. 2 on the list above) which you may find useful.
    I have also produced a template for your learning journal (no. 3 in the list above), which can be found on the Canvas site. Once again, you are not obliged to use this format but it may help you to get started.
    Please note you are not required to submit the whole learning journal, but a summary only (1000 words). This summary should contain your reflections on the learning process.
    This will allow you to keep the journal in your own language and to hand in a summary and critical appraisal of the process.
    Your summary of your Learning Journal should comprise (approximately) 1000 words and should be submitted by 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday 11th December 2019. It will contribute to assessment (20% of the overall module mark) and hopefully, you will be able to use it as a basis for monitoring and evaluating your progress.
    The marking scheme is available as a separate document on Canvas.
     

The criteria that will be used in assessing the journal summary are listed below:
• Criticality
• Analysis
• Self-reflection
• Evidence
• Transferability

Susan

Keeping a Learning Journal
Keeping a learning journal should be a reflective process: you should be able to assimilate the information you were given, learn from it and then reflect upon the process and how it impacts on your learning and life.
This handout will guide you to some useful websites and data.
This initial picture may help:

Let’s begin by a link to the University guide on Reflective Writing:
https://libguides.hull.ac.uk/reflectivewriting
The University library have also produced some helpful written guides to reflective learning:
Reflection.pdf ReflectiveLearning.pdf Reflection with examples.pdf

HOW CAN I DEVELOP AS A REFLECTIVE LEARNER?
Create a learning journal (or portfolio)
Use either a laptop file or a ring-binder, into which you can write your reflections on your learning. If you use a ring binder, you can slot your reflections, self-evaluation questionnaires and progress sheets (see below and page 4) into clear plastic wallets for safe keeping. This ring binder or notebook will become a portfolio of your progress in study and learning. If you use a file, do ensure you keep a backup copy so your work is not lost, as you will be adding to the file for some months.
What to write in your learning journal
Your learning journal should not be just a description of the topics and activities covered during a class session, although you may wish to include some brief background to put your reflections into context. The core of your learning journal should be your thoughts and feelings about your learning.
Try to get into the habit of reflecting on your learning in all modules of your course, as well as on the learning that takes place in your life in general.
You can write in your learning journal, anything that helps you to reflect on your learning. Here are some examples of the sorts of things you may wish to write about:
• Your feelings about the course and your progress
• Your feelings about the lecturers and the other students
• Changes in your motivation or attitude towards your learning
• Your ideas about how you learn most effectively
• The things that challenge you; that you find difficult (and why)
• The things you find easy (and why)
• Your ideas (or strategies) for tackling tasks such as essay writing and exams. You may like to set yourself some targets for these tasks
• How different areas of your study are connected
• How your study and your developing skills relate to other spheres of your life

[Adapted from Cottrell, 2003 (b): 67]

You should at the halfway point (the beginning of November?) read the journal again and reflect upon your progress – but revisit not revise – leave your original material unaltered and consider what you have learnt from the process of keeping the journal.
Below is Kolb’s learning cycle:

http://bsspdl.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/kolb-learning-cycle-2/, accessed 17/9/15
The theory behind learning journals is that they allow this process to evolve and it is documented – see the extract below from the University College Dublin website:
Purposes of a Journal
Journals are used to stimulate critical thinking; the aim is to provide you and your tutor with an insight into your knowledge at the higher levels of learning involving analysis, synthesis and evaluation of information. Journals encourage you to make your learning personal by thinking about and articulating your thoughts. They will also focus your attention on your own values, attitudes and beliefs and help you make them explicit when they might previously have been implicit and unexamined.
Journals allow you to reflect on all your learning and identify areas that you wish to examine in more depth either inside or outside the formal education system. Journals can aid development in the following ways:
• To record experience
• To facilitate learning from experience
• To facilitate learning from development theory
• To understand your skills level and its development
• To develop critical thinking or the development of a questioning attitude
• To encourage awareness of our own learning processes
• To increase active involvement in and ownership of learning
• To increase ability in reflection and thinking
• To enhance problem solving skills
• To support personal development and self empowerment
• To identify and support changes in thinking
The act of writing is associated with learning or the enhancement of learning – writing forces a learner to clarify thoughts, structure ideas and give voice to opinions. Previous learning experiences, based on acquiring facts and on processing information, may mean that you have become used to more passive and less independent roles. Essentially a journal should be the individual student’s written response to the process of learning.
Here is a good summary by Jennifer Moon of Exeter University on how to write learning journals
http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/UCDTLA0035.pdf, accessed 17 Sep 2015

I have produced a template for your learning journal, which can be found on the Canvas site. I have also produced a tutorial preparation sheet and learning evaluation sheet which should form the basis of your journal.
Please note you are not required to submit the whole learning journal, but a summary only (1000 words). This summary should contain your reflections on the learning process.
This will allow you to keep the journal in your own language and to hand in a summary and critical appraisal of the process.
Your summary of your Learning Journal should comprise (approximately) 1000 words and should be submitted to Canvas on or before 4.00 p.m. on 11 December 2019. As indicated, it will contribute to assessment and hopefully, you will be able to use it as a basis for monitoring and evaluating your progress.

GUIDELINES FOR YOUR LEARNING JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT

Start with writing things down …

  1. The Learning Journal is a reflective assignment and involves a personal assessment of learning that you have achieved during the module. You are asked to look back on the learning experiences you have had and assess the progress that you have made. The main processes are to:
    * reflect on the relevance and quality of your learning
    * assess how effective you think it has been
    * identify/discuss issues and concerns of particular significance
    * devise an action-plan to improve the quality of subsequent learning
  2. The ideas behind this assignment are linked to new approaches in learning and
    assessment which can be summarised as follows:
  • an emphasis on the active role of learners in acquiring knowledge, i.e., that learning is not something that happens to students – rather it is something that happens by students
    * a view of learning as a cyclical and iterative process
  • a need to develop the skills of autonomous, self – managed learning and self-assessment
    * awareness to the challenges of deep as opposed to surface learning, particularly for study at postgraduate level
  • critical and self-regulated learning supported and shared with, ‘others’, e.g. mentors, fellow students, workplace colleagues
  1. The Learning Journal contributes to self-assessed learning and should:
    * enable you to become more involved in the management of your own learning and in acquiring ‘how to learn skills’
  • help your motivation and contribute to a sense of wanting to achieve and to be a more effective and successful learner
    • provide an opportunity for you to reflect on the process of your own learning
  1. The purpose of the Learning Journal is to assess the learning you have achieved during the first part of your programme when you have been studying the core units.
  2. There is no ‘right’ way to organise and write your Learning Journal, but the different points below may provide a framework that you can use to organise your analysis and reflection:
    * Introduction
    Briefly describe yourself and your starting point, perhaps some of your reasons for studying for the module and the expectations you had about it.
    * Learning outcomes
    Refer to the learning outcomes in the module handbook. Be selective – it is unnecessary to describe each outcome.

    • Learning experiences
      Briefly describe some of the activities in which you have participated and the work you have undertaken.

      • Learning achieved
        Assess the learning you have achieved, including evidence for such learning. Refer to your previously stated learning outcomes and assess the extent to which you have achieved what you said you would achieve. Identify and discuss particular issues of concern or difficulties that you have encountered
  • Action
    In light of your learning experiences so far, what further action do you need to plan? Consider some of the things that have gone well & how you can continue & improve on this success. Additionally, consider those aspects which have gone less well and identify responses that you could and should make. In other words, try to anticipate some of the course requirements and consider how you will manage them.
  1. If this is what the Learning Journal comprises, what is an appropriate way to prepare such a document? One useful method, is called the learning portfolio or ‘learning journal’; this been described by David Walker as follows:
    For me the word portfolio means a work book, a forum within which one works seriously with the experiences of learning or life. It fosters that important & essential counterpart to experience: reflection.
    (Walker, 1985: 53).
  2. Making regular entries in a learning journal is a very useful way of reflecting on your learning experience and you are strongly advised to record your learning/experiences in this way.
  3. In keeping a learning journal, try to bear in mind the following points:
  • Write entries and make contributions regularly, as if you were keeping a diary. Do this as soon as possible after they occur and write them up as fully as you can
    • When you are deciding what to write, think about the sessions in which you have participated and the issues discussed. How well did you understand them? Later, consider relationships between topics covered in the different modules? Try to draw comparisons and make connections.
  • What difficulties did you encounter? How can you remedy these? What can you do to repeat and build on the successes and minimise/avoid the unsuccessful parts? Think about these questions from your position as a learner and don’t (immediately!) blame other people if things go wrong.
  • Talk through issues and concerns with your fellow students and use them as a resource to help you address different topics and understand your own learning and professional development.
    * Refer back to some of your earlier entries. Reflect on what you have written and what you can learn. Try to identify the issues that are important and significant and explain the reasons for this
  1. In this way the learning journal can serve to record and generate contents which can then be used and written up. The big advantage of the journal is that you don’t have to agonise about what you should say and how best you can say it. The main purpose is not style and elegance; rather, it is to write regularly about things which are interesting and important to you.
  2. Your summary of your Learning Journal should comprise (approximately) 1000 words. As indicated, it will contribute to assessment and hopefully, you will be able to use it as a basis for monitoring and evaluating your progress.
    The criteria that will be used in assessing the journal summary are listed below:
    • Criticality
    • Analysis
    • Self-reflection
    • Evidence
    • Transferability

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