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Both high-tech innovations for learning and the inability of many schoolchildren to write well have been major talking points in educational circles for quite some time, but oddly enough, one may offer a solution to helping remedy the other.

 

There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone.

 

Here are a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures.

Via greggfesta, Jenny Smith, Deborah Millar , Jamie Forshey, Lynnette Van Dyke, Katie Frank, Ricard Garcia, Randy Rebman, Yuly Asencion, Cíntia Rabello, Francisco Velasquez

Why Reflect?

 

"It is the language of reflection that deepens our knowledge of who we are in relation to others in a community of learners" (Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton, University of Victoria).

 

What are the pedagogical and physiological foundations of reflection for learning? Why is reflection important for learning? What does the literature say about how reflection supports learning?

 

Self-knowledge becomes an outcome of learning. The primary motive of a learning portfolio:

 

“to improve student learning by providing a structure for students to reflect systematically over time on the learning process and to develop the aptitudes, skills and habits that come from critical reflection” (John Zubizaretta).

 

“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience” (John Dewey).

 

The Learning Cycle, developed by David Kolb, is based on the belief that deep learning (learning for real comprehension) comes from a sequence of experience, reflection, abstraction, and active testing.

 

Reflection for Learning

(https://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/Home).

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