Creating a Learning Log

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Creating a Learning Log
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Introduction to the Log

• Use an A4 notebook.
• This is where you make a record of activities,
  notes, thoughts, reflections, ideas .
• Keep it safe. Use it all the time.
• Hand write and stick things in.
• Your Assessment summary must refer to your notes
  and you hand the note book in as evidence.

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What is a learning Log

• A place for you to record your impressions,
• ideas, thoughts
• A structured way of recording reactions.
• We will provide questions to prompt your
• thinking at each session
• Open ended questions (to help you note what
• matters to you)
• Closed questions (to help us evaluate your
• experiences)

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What will you reflect on?

• Your responses to the sessions and your thinking
  / doing in between
• Your learning from each session
• You will learn about
• Your skills, values and interests
• Your understanding of enterprise
• The ability to reflect is an important part of
  learning to learn, and is a normal workplace
  activity.

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Assessment

• 30 weighting
• 1200 words summary reflection with the
• logbook attached
• Handed in to the Enterprise Zone, 4 Mount
  Preston Street, on or before 12.00 noon on
  Thursday 8 May 2008

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Mark Scheme

• You need to cover what you have learned about the
  following topics for which marks will be
  allocated as follows
• Leadership, creativity and innovation skills and
  values 50
• Your personal understanding and learning
  development 50

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Marking Criteria

• Marks will be awarded for the QUALITY of your
  information and reflection.
• In each paragraph you would be wise to
• Be clear about the statement you are making
• Make a well-structured argument
• Give the supporting evidence from your Log,
  with
• the log page number (and literature if
  relevant)

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Example Statements

• My initial understanding about social enterprise
  was that they were all charity based. The session
  on (p12) showed me that .
• Looking back at reflections p 7 I was saying .
  But after week 6, (p21) my views had changed.
• I had no idea about but having done the .
  exercise (p) I now realise that I am regularly
  its just that I hadnt thought about it this
  way.
• When I started, this was an elective that I was
  just filling in with. Writing about the session
  (p ) I started to get involved.

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Example statements

• The lecture from inspired me to look at and
  read My reflections (p ) show that I started
  to get much more positive about the module and
  the reading on helped me to understand.
• Basically I was doing this as an extra module and
  I haven't spent any time on it so writing this is
  really difficult. The essay is very limited and I
  know I should have looked at some more references
  to really understand the issues. I would expect
  the essay to get a low mark and I am really
  pleading for a scrape through. If I had come to
  the Lectures