Have students self-reflect on their learning process
Self-reflection and self-evaluation have numerous benefits to the learning process.
Firstly, it helps students understand how they learn, how they process information and tackle various tasks. This is very important for developing their learning skills, self-awareness and learning tactics.
Secondly, when thinking again about the task after completing it, students improve their understanding of the task’s requirements, focus on the trainer's instructions and analyse their work against it. This helps build their mental models, which are their own mental representations of abstract knowledge and concepts, and transfer new information into the long-term memory.
Finally, when students reflect for the second time after receiving feedback from the trainer, they are better able to fill the gaps in the information or performance that might have occurred.
How to do it?
From the “MY WORKSPACE” tab a student chooses a task. They work on it, and upload the evidence of learning.
Before submitting the task they self-reflect on both: task they were completing, and competence they were developing while working on the task:
Ultimately, a trainer receives the student's task and sees how the student evaluated themselves. After checking the student's tasks, the trainer can also evaluate the competencies attached to the task.
Keep your learning diary
Self-reflection helps students look at their education and learning skills as a whole. It raises awareness about one’s strengths and weaknesses, learning styles and techniques, progress, throwbacks. It allows students to set their priorities, and make informed decisions about their study plans.
In Dakora+ there is a designated area called “LEARNING DIARY” where students can write their thoughts. Trainers do not have access to this area, neither have other students. Each day a blank page appears. Once a student writes down text on the page, it saves in the left-hand index, so that the student can come back to it at any time.
