Lesson one and two, Internet Safety and Reflective Learning.

So, we were introduced to the awesome world of blogger! Wow! Why have I not created an account before?!, I was sat in the lesson thinking, 'hmm.. this sounds rather fun for a seminar..' But not only was this fun, I can totally understand the reason for creating a blogger account. We began our lesson in groups showing a website of our interest, we did this because it enabled us to pick out and show how we could tell that the sights were safe, (or at least showing signs of safety). This is a crucial part to the Educational Studies course, because if you aspire to become a Primary or even Secondary school teacher like myself, then you need to be aware of inappropriate sights and you need to be aware of the danger or dodgy signs in able to prevent as soon as possible, pupils from seeing these. Once we had done the scary standing up to the class scene, we created our blogs that we will be able to write on after every lesson and refer back to.
In the second lesson today, I felt that we had just as fun much as the last session. Today we spoke about 'Reflective Learning', we spoke about it as a class, it was a class discussion. We used the 'Bubble Us' sight which I have already posted up on my blog earlier on this morning. We did a thought shower on what we as a group thought 'Reflective Learning' was and meant. I personally came to the conclusion that 'Reflective Learning' is where you are taught/fed information on a certain subject and you note down what you have learnt/taken in. From there, I save this information onto my wonderful blog page and I can look back, read through, and refer to this information at any point in time. Having this information documented is important because if there was anything I could potentially forget, I can re-read this and that would be the perfect solution to my problem. We also looked at other people's blogs today on the subject of Education, I have picked out 5 blogs that I feel are interesting and I am going to post in due course. I found this session interesting because it has taught me the importance of 'Reflective Learning' and how it can help you remember information, edit information and improve on your work and evaluate it with constructive criticism.