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Critical Reflection: A Foundation For Civic Engagement, Danika M. Brown, Jessica Khalaf
Critical Reflection: A Foundation For Civic Engagement, Danika M. Brown, Jessica Khalaf
Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
Educators who engage in and advocate for experiential learning have long taken it as a given that reflection is an essential component of any experiential learning cycle. The standard assumptions around this approach to learning is that students come to a context with unexamined beliefs about how the world is or works, engage in an experience and related content which alters (or perhaps confirms) their understanding of the world, and that that understanding becomes knowledge when the student reflects on and represents the experience. What becomes key in this set of assumptions, then, is to understand the role that reflection …
Challenge Accepted! Going Gameful To Develop Soft Skills, Laurie A. Sutch
Challenge Accepted! Going Gameful To Develop Soft Skills, Laurie A. Sutch
Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
Students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn are leveraging the connections among their learning and living experiences by reflecting in the online Talent Gateway, a “gameful learning” approach to career readiness. In this program, students earn points towards the (M)Talent distinction on their official transcript as they learn to recognize and articulate existing skills while also developing new skills required in today's workplace such as critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, digital literacy, and global fluency.