{"id":279,"date":"2014-01-03T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2014-01-03T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T21:03:21","slug":"personal-learning-document","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/personal-learning-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Learning Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a capstone to the course, you will create a <strong>Personal Learning Document<\/strong> that reflects critically on what you have learned about technologies of the future\u2014and yourself\u2014over the past three months. Functionally, this is an essay, and should involve research and reflection, as well as an argument for the amount of intellectual effort you invested in this course. It&#8217;s also an opportunity to demonstrate your creative understanding of new concepts and how they intersect with your own future academic, professional and personal goals. In other words: How have you learned to prepare for the future ahead of you?<\/p>\n<p>We will \u00a0discuss what this PLD might look like over the term, but it should contain a few key elements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What did you hope to learn from the course? What did you arrive knowing already and where did your interests lie?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning Process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What were the stages of learning you moved through via the various assignments, readings, guest speakers, and class discussions? Where did you struggle and how did you overcome \u00a0challenges? What were your moments of revelation and clarity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What specifically did you learn most about the future of our technologically mediated society? \u00a0Where do you think our society (or one element of it) is heading? How should we &#8220;future-proof&#8221; ourselves for these changes? How has your understanding about specific themes changed? Don&#8217;t be afraid to be opinionated or controversial\u2014just back up your ideas with examples and references.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Learning Network<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An annotated bibliography (one page) of new resources and experts you discovered that you will continue to consult to expand your knowledge.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Format<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This document can take the form of a traditional paper (1,500 words), but you are also encouraged to use an alternative medium as well\u2014a website (using the OAC perhaps), an audio podcast, a narrated PowerPoint, a video blog.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Evaluation<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>This Personal Learning Document is worth 25% and will be evaluated on intellectual <strong>depth<\/strong>, critical <strong>reflection<\/strong>, original <strong>ideas<\/strong>, use of course <strong>concepts<\/strong>, <strong>organization<\/strong> and <strong>clarity<\/strong>, research and bibliographic <strong>references<\/strong>, and <strong>creativity.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a capstone to the course, you will create a Personal Learning Document that reflects critically on what you have learned about technologies of the future\u2014and yourself\u2014over the past three months. Functionally, this is an essay, and should involve research and reflection, as well as an argument for the amount of intellectual effort you invested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/personal-learning-document\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal Learning Document<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}