Reflections on Keynote at #UBCOLearnConf with Dr. Linda B. Nilson.
Reflection involves self-debriefing and helps students know what to look for through an educational experience. Reflection leads the way to metacognition and self-regulated learning. That can encapsulate self-observation, self-monitoring, self-analysis, self-evaluation. Students, upon reflecting, can start creating decision-making rules and patterns to take with them to other similar experiences. Ultimately, as a teacher, it is the reflection that you will assess. You as a teacher will be able to see the quality of their reflection
Reflective Probes
The term “probes” is new to me in this kind of educational context. “The authentic experience & reflection require corresponding outcomes” – Dr. Linda B. Nilson. Here are some examples of probes:
- What skills did you gain or improve?
- How did you overcome your challenges?
- Describe your decision-making process?
- What steps did you take along your research process?
- What problems did you encounter?
- When and how will these skills be useful in the future?
Learning Outcomes
Questions teachers need to ask themselves before creating authentic learning experience reflection assessments are:
- What are my learning outcomes for your students’ authentic experience?
- Given these outcomes, what are your most effective reflective probes to ask and assess (detail important here)
Thoughts on the presentation
It was fascinating to see the breadth and depth of best practices in student reflection on authentic learning. What I would have loved to see was more opportunities for the audience themselves to do some reflection on the presentation itself. Dr. Linda B. Nilson would have benefited from using one or two Liberating Structures such as 1-2-4-All or 15% Solutions!
Barish Golland 