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State the most important aspects of your learning: challenges you face or have overcome and specific skills, types of knowledge or habits you have learned.

Include an interesting title

Be as specific as possible in all of your descriptions of learning.

Use MLA format: double space, 12 inch font, 1” margins on all sides

Support your points by using specific examples of mistakes, knowledge, strategies, feelings, or processes.

Write 2-3 paragraphs ½-1 full page (double spaced).

Upload your reflections to your electronic portfolio by the end of the semester, if not before.

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1 Essay 2 final draft Critical thinking and creativity versus memorization and rule following In our culture today, intelligence is associated with formal education and everyone is in pursuit of education because without it you are considered unintelligent. The pressure is transferred to children who are expected to grasp the concepts taught in a class within a year after which they progress to the next grade where the concepts keep advancing. Since the teachers have a lot to cover within the year and the fact that they teach students in a group, they are forced to move on in their coverage regardless of the percentage of the learners that caught the concept. The system of education today puts learners under pressure because all that matters is what reflects on their grade at the end of a semester or term. To attain the grades and avoid questions and looking stupid, learners have devised means to get the grades which include memorizing of concepts right before the exam. Critical thinking has been left out of education and instead memorization and rule following is given priority and rewarded. The place of critical thinking in education has been left out, and this threatens innovation because young minds are programmed to follow a set of rules without a chance to make mistakes and learn from them. The evaluation system requires that learners answer questions that have been picked in the units they have studied over the term. These questions test their mastery of some concepts at once and within a limited span of time. The method of evaluation may be effective for other aspects of learning such as information retention and memory but is not a good indicator of mastery of concepts. Teacher sees how much one can remember, the learners memorize as many concepts as they can from topics, they consider significant and put them down on the exam paper, after which everything is forgotten. Since there are policies and methods of learning, learners are expected to adhere to them to succeed. For example, some of the projects 2 that were done outside of class and off the course requirements have turned to be life-changing innovations; Google, Microsoft, and apple. Larry Page, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were creative and innovative, but they had to get away from the norm to think beyond the books. The problem that arises from this rush through the education system is that innovation is not encouraged. Perception of free thinking is that of rebellion. Learners are not encouraged to think freely; they have to stick to the rules. For example, a kid who has an interest in vehicles and spends most of his time with machines will still be pressured to spend his time wellanalysing literature and poems without asking why he has to do it. The school is associated with intelligence and a license for a good job and additionally a happy life. Students who cannot memorize as much are forced to use other gimmicks in exams like carrying cheat sheets with written answers. Cheating in exams is an indication of dishonesty among students which is a bad sign for whom they are going to become in the society. However, when a student gets to an exam room, looking at an exam question creates panic in them because their mind starts to race to ask whether they wrote the answer for that. The first instinct after reading a question is to look at the sheet for some answer instead of thinking critically and evaluating the question. Eventually, the student ends up misunderstanding the question and giving inappropriate answers. Poor performance in the exams necessitates students to repeat the grades they are in until they have attained the minimum requirements. Students who may have performed better, given more time or given another form of evaluation testing their creativity, are forced to repeat classes. The effects of that are learners feel demoralized and think of themselves as unable to learn. Repeating a grade causes psychological problems for the learners and cause them to deteriorate further. Memorization and putting learners under strict rules suppress their imagination such that they cannot be innovative. There is no room for mistakes, and that is why you have to get it right before you can proceed to the next level. The economy today runs on 3 innovation, and the complexity in the societies require that learners be exposed to more problem-solving situations to learn how to think critically under varying circumstances. Keeping them under strict rules limits their ability to explore and learn new things and adapting to diversity. Mike Rose in his article on the American scholar, explains the concept of cognitive variability where he acknowledges that all the fields require a level of intelligence that suits it. As he talks about his mother’s work as a waitress, and his uncle’s as a foreman at general motors, he shows that someone does not have to be formally learned to be intelligent. This then means that we can move from the practices that hurt out creativity and deprive learners the ability to think creatively. All the varying abilities in learners should be encouraged ("BlueCollar Brilliance - The American Scholar"). The system has taught the learners competitive behaviour and prepared them to face life with the same attitude. Knowledge is about transforming society; it is supposed to make those who acquire it better. The curriculum being taught needs to be re-examined to ensure that what is being taught prepares the learners for life. It should not be a competition used to sort through leaners who do well and punish those who do not succeed. This might cost money and time to change the courses. Changing the course may be a difficult solution considering that it is a question of culture. What people already believe may be difficult to change however much time it takes. However, it is evident that the education system has suffered lack an action that needs must be taken. 4 Works Cited Blue-Collar Brilliance - The American Scholar". The American Scholar, 2018, https://theamericanscholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/. Accessed 16 Oct 2018. Lin, Wei-Lun, and Yunn-Wen Lien. "Exploration Of The Relationships Between RetrievalInduced Forgetting Effects With Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Creative Problem Solving." Thinking Skills And Creativity, vol 10, 2013, pp. 40-49. Elsevier BV, doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2013.05.004. Reflections: 1, 2, and 3 Assignment 2018 Prompt After completing each essay, develop a reflection about writing that essay. Describe the most meaningful and significant aspects of the reading, writing, and research experience. Details . · You may use the first person "T" since this is about your experience. • Your audience is your instructor and your classmates. Feel free to be creative in your reflection. You can include a question, a visual, links, lyrics from a song that came to mind during the process of writing your essay, etc. Requirements · State the most important aspects of your learning: challenges you face or have overcome and specific skills, types of knowledge or habits you have learned. · Include an interesting title · Be as specific as possible in all of your descriptions of learning. • Use MLA format: double space, 12 inch font, 1" margins on all sides Support your points by using specific examples of mistakes, knowledge, strategies, feelings, or processes. Write 2-3 paragraphs 1-1 full page (double spaced). · Upload your reflections to your electronic portfolio by the end of the semester, if not before. Before you write your reflection, please consider these questions: 1. What new things did I learn or experience? 2. What did I do well? (Process, content, structure, research, proofreading, etc.) 3. What were my challenges? 4. What did I learn from writing this essay that can make me a better writer? 5. What study skills helped me with this assignment? What skills do you need to improve? 6. How did I utilize what I have been learning in LIB 100?
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