Learning Profile

1. There are a ton of interesting themes in the text book, I haven’t really read that much but I know some stuff about them. The Engage theme is about setting your goals, or developing an academic passion for learning. It is also to motivate you and get you ready for life. The prioritize chapter was to help you with planning your time and to help reduce stress. The persist chapter is to help you managing your college resources, your money, and your debt. The reading chapter is to help you with reading skills and comprehensive skills. This chapter helped you with improving your speed and comprehensive skills. I like the learning chapter because it helped you with your learning style and using your dominant intelligence. The record theme mainly focused on cultivating your listening skills and developing good note taking abilities. The other focuses were why you should take notes and talked about how not everyone works or studies the same way. The remember theme was all about empowering you’re your memory and creating a study plan that fits your style. The other focuses were about how you should know instead of memorizing it all. The assess chapters main focuses were about developing successful test taking tactics that works best for you. The think chapter was about expanding your aptitude for critical thinking and problem solving. Another focus in this chapter was for you to develop a plan for critical thinking. The prosper chapter was probably my favorite because its main focus was what I needed to find out in my life. The main focus in this chapter was connecting with a career, which I really need to figure out right now. The other focuses were connecting with a culture and your character as a person.

2. My strengths as a learner are pretty simple because it’s kind of hard for me to be a good learner because I am kind of lazy. But, I do have some very strong strength as a learner. My strengths as a learner are that I have an open mind to learn about anything and everything. I like to learn about history type stuff and in most of my classes history is in a lot of them. My strengths are very small also. I don’t really have a problem with writing notes because I really like to write, I can honestly say that. I like to read also and that a strong point in learning I believe. Reading is fun to me, I don’t really do it on my own as much as I should but I don’t really have a problem with doing it. I have a different learning style as well, I like to see things and do activities. There are a few activities that come easily to me I like to do hands on things I find them more affective for my type of learning style. Some people would rather do other stuff but I enjoy activities more than anything.

3. Although I have some strength, I also have many weaknesses that I would like to grow and get better at. I think my main weakness is that I am not a good studier. Studying to me is really hard because I get preoccupied in doing something else like watching TV, or playing video games or getting on the computer and playing around. I am also not a good note taker; I don’t write the notes were I can effectively learn from them. Its hard for me to understand my notes sometimes. The toughest thing for me in this class was probably writing the posts on my blog. I am not a good typer and it takes me longer than other people. I wish I had the ability to study as much as other students its not very fun when everyone does good on test except for you, it feels like everyone does good on them. If I were to take this course again I would try and focus mainly on the studying part because that is by far my weakest ability as a student at Butler.

4. I have learned a lot of things in this class. I have learned now that I can develop better working habits so that I can be a better student. I can try and be a better studier and better student. I thought coming into this class that I was going to have to stand up and talk in front everybody and I absolutely hate that. I am not a good speaker. The most important skill that I learned was the skill of finding me a career in the near future because I really need to start thinking because I really have no idea what I am going to be or do when I grow up. Hopefully I will find out within the next semester.

5. There were a few activities that really focused on me as a student and that I really learned from and am going to change those activities in my life. The main thing I think was the video over the girl that died from binge drinking. I don’t really drink that much but I have friends that do and now I know how bad drinking really is. It really scares me because I have seen people be like that and didn’t really think anything of it but I now know to get help if I see someone like that. The topics that weren’t really affective on my life were the rubrics that we did to take role. I felt like they really didn’t matter besides the questions on the back, they were alright. The activity were we did the hand eye coordination with computer it really didn’t feel relevant to my life I guess.

6. The activities that should be dropped would probably be the ones with the eye tests, I felt like they weren’t really important, but to some people it may be important. I think that you should add more stuff on effects of drinking because that is a major problem with college students I believe. The video of the girl dying should be kept at all costs I felt it made the most impact in my life today and if it made an impact on me it could probably help other students out as well. I felt that you should really really put in the students head that drinking isn’t “cool” because we all know that’s why they do it.

7. I think the main thing that students shouldn’t do it wait the last minute to do there assignments because that’s what I have done and it’s really a pain in the butt. You should come into this course with an open mind and ready to learn anything the instructor says to you and take it to heart. I would tell them that this is really an important class because it helped me out a lot in finding my career of choice and to develop better habits as a student and a learner. The prosper chapter was the most effective for me because it will help you to figure out what your plans are in life and help you to prosper in life. You should always be prepared to learn in this class. Don’t take it for granite because you may think its an easy course to take.

8. My reflection on this class and the experiences I went through in getting through this class is great. I will change in my life the things that I have chose to do in the past like not helping my friends. I will try and be a better studier and become a better student. I have learned things in this class and would be doing something and I would think about this class. It really has helped me a lot I didn’t really notice it until I did this paper.