Have learners self-reflect on their learning process
Self-reflection and self-evaluation have numerous benefits to the learning process.
Firstly, it helps learners 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, learners 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 learners 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 learner 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 learner's task and sees how the learner evaluated themselves. After checking the learner's tasks, the trainer can also evaluate the competencies attached to the task.
Keep your learning diary
Self-reflection helps learners 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 learners to set their priorities, and make informed decisions about their study plans.
In Dakora+ there is a designated area called “LEARNING DIARY” where learners can write their thoughts. Trainers do not have access to this area, neither have other learners. Each day a blank page appears. Once a learner writes down text on the page, it saves in the left-hand index, so that the learner can come back to it at any time.
