You can name facts you learnt on this course. Today is different. You will name how you learn: the habits that got you through two years of reading, writing, speaking and making.
First you rate your own learning habits, with your portfolio open. Then you write a How I Learn Now sheet for your Communication Portfolio: three habits, a course example for each, and one paragraph on what you will keep doing after LCA.
Knowing a fact and knowing how you learnt it are not the same thing. The second is what this lesson is about.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Metacognition: thinking about how you think and learn, not only what you know. | You notice the moves that work for you, so you can use them on purpose. | Realising you plan better after a short walk than after staring at a blank page |
| Learning habits: the regular ways you approach work that help you improve. | You can name three habits from this course and point to where you used them. | Drafting messy first, then redrafting with both versions in front of you |
The point of naming habits is so you can choose what continues after LCA: a plan you pick, not a list someone else wrote for you.
Worked example. Habit: I read a draft aloud before I call it finished. Course example, from one student: reading her film review aloud, she heard two sentences saying the same thing and cut one. That is learning how to learn, not just learning a topic.
Open your Communication Portfolio and skim a few recent pieces before you rate. Every rating needs a sentence of evidence from this course: a piece, a lesson, or a moment. Line 6 is open: name a habit of your own if your strongest one is not already on the list.
Next you pick your strongest three habits and their evidence for the How I Learn Now sheet. The ratings on screen are not saved, so when you finish, press Copy for my portfolio and paste them into the box below.
Choose the three habits with the strongest course evidence in your Mark It Up ratings (in the box under the audit). One of the three can be the habit you named yourself on line 6.
Write your How I Learn Now sheet in the activity below. When it is finished, copy it into your Communication Portfolio folder as m4_l118_how_i_learn_<your-initials>.
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