So now I must
answer several questions concerning what have I learned from this course? For me, the experience of this first course
for this degree was very eye opening.
Even though the timing of this course was not the best for me, I felt I
was able to rise to the occasion and complete the majority of the assignments. I know there is one assignment that I will
not be able to complete on time due to an account glitch and the administrators
for the survey website are slow to assist me.
For that I will take a hit on my grade and feel I have let myself and
the professor down. However, I do feel I
have learned quite a bit from the course.
This was a labor intensive course with a lot to learn in 9 weeks. As far as the subject of critical thinking, I
must admit that I have enhanced my comprehension. I wonder how I will apply this new found
skill throughout my life, personally and professionally. As for the blogs, I was very skeptical at
first, but now I see it as a living journal where students post their thought
on the subject of that week; and I have grown to enjoy it. I now see it as a life-long learning
tool. Now I must address the required
questions for this course requirement. What
might I have done to improve my learning experience in this course? Overall my learning experience was very
good. If anything, I could have improved
on my time management where I could focus on areas that did not interest me as
much. I must admit that I did just
enough to get by in those areas. How
might the University or your instructor provide additional support for your
learning? Because critical thinking is not an easy subject to comprehend, more examples
would assist in understanding and comprehension. The things that provided me the most values
to learning the process of critical thinking were the required videos. The TED video Beware Conflicts of Interest by
behavioral economist Dan Ariely and the TED video by Sheena Iyengar are videos
that I really enjoyed and gave me a lot of insight on critical thinking. Were there topics covered in this course that
seem particularly relevant or irrelevant to your experiences and to what you
expect to come in future courses? I did
not have any expectations for this course.
I am hoping is this course will set a solid foundation for this degree plan. Last thing I feel I must address relates to
the software we had to purchase. I am curious to know how purchasing “The
Brain” software will assist me in my learning endeavors. It seems to be more of an online storage
database tool rather than an educational tool.
This class caused me to think about things in various ways and the Brain
software did not seem critical to my learning endeavors.
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