Self Directed Learning Project
Intorduction
First, this is a project that we have to choose a question that we would like to know or a goal we want to reach, and we need to figure out the answer or practice to reach the goal we set by our selves, which the project named: Self-Directed Learning Project. We won't get any instruction or guide from teacher, student need to plan how to get the information they need in project, how to record what have they learnt, and it is quite special for student to learn whatever they want to learn then study it by their selves. However, the topic I choose is about Reincarnation . As I'm in a family that having a mix religion or Buddhism and Daoism, I hear a lot of story that is about reincarnation when I was a little kid, and I'm very interesting in it, this is the reason why I choose this as the topic for my self directed learning project.
Mind Maps
First, I drew two mind map in the beginning of the project and in the middle of the project, these show that how many things I had learn and you can see a huge different between these two mind maps. The first one is almost nothing, because I was really unfamiliar with reincarnation, and almost have zero knowledge about it. The second one is quite full and having massive knowledge, I develop many new questions as I'm learning, which are something about the opinions to
reincarnation from other religions.
reincarnation from other religions.
Learning Records
Here comes my record of my learning, which have 2 different kinds of forms, one is the Learning Record Form that teacher gave us in the beginning of the project, another is the little cards I made by myself. Firstly, the record form from our teacher makes me kind of stuck when I filled in it, because I did not really sure what is the thing that I don't know I don't understand, so in this part, I was very struggle. But when I change to make the little card that full of questions and definitions, it became very smooth, and I discover something new as I wrote down the question. Such as the meaning of Karma, or some basic knowledge of Hinduism, which are the things that I do not think I will learn about. However you can see how did I learn and slowly explore in to different directions by the cards, and I also got a clear information in those small cards compare to the record form.
Final Product
Finally, here is my final product, which you can call it the cycle of reincarnation. I summarize the basic information of reincarnation and made it looks like a big clock, and you can see the definition of every realm after you open it. In this project, the thing that I discuss the most is the six realm of existences, which tell about the six realm that you may reincarnate to according to your karma, and this is also the part that I enjoy the most. I read some story and allusion of these realms, and decided to make is as my final product. But why in this form?
I am not really good at writing a long essay or article, and I more enjoy drawing compare to sit down quietly and type the words, so I draw down how the realms will look like and give the definition in another side, which makes it look better!
This circle shape poster is the product that I condense every single knowledge that I had learn in this two months, and I hope the readers can learn something by just look at my poster. : )
I am not really good at writing a long essay or article, and I more enjoy drawing compare to sit down quietly and type the words, so I draw down how the realms will look like and give the definition in another side, which makes it look better!
This circle shape poster is the product that I condense every single knowledge that I had learn in this two months, and I hope the readers can learn something by just look at my poster. : )
Reflection
In the self-directed learning project, I do learn about somethings else beside the knowledge that I got when I was studying about the reincarnation. First of all, I would like to talk about the successes part in my project. I think the most successful thing in my reincarnation research is that I gather so many new knowledge which almost involve in every religion, before I started the research, I did not think that I will learn so many things which not only about reincarnation, but also some basic things or history of Christian, Hindu, and Buddhism. For the failures, I think I can plan and manage the time I used more carefully, because of the laziness, I lose lots of chance to learn more new things, I could have the time to get understand some questions, but I just give up the opportunity to answer it. This is what I feel very pity.
Second, I want to discuss about the weakness and the strengths I had in the project. For the weakness, I think the one that I can improve the most is about the recording of my learning. As I review my recording after I submit the work, I found out that there are lots of improvement I can do, and which will help me to learn well than before. For example, now I use the form of teacher and the little card that filled with questions that I got during learning, but I think I can record the question more detail, but not only choose the one I interest and wrote it down. So next time if I do something similar, I can understand how my brain explored during the learning, and develop more new questions for studying. For the strengths, in my own opinion, I think the part I do the best is the research part. Because of the particularity of my topic, I think if I search in Chinese will give me more information than other languages, and it did work very good, I found lots of new knowledge, but I still think I can improve this strengths and make it better. Maybe next time I can search with both Chinese and English, and because of the different of language, I may find some knowledge with a different view of points, which the information will be more integrated than search with one language.
Lastly, and also the most important part, I am going to talk about what had I learn, not just a learner studying new things, but also learn about myself. For those knowledge that I had learn, I mention it quite a lot above already, so the thing I focus will more about those I learn about myself. From this whole project, I do find some of my inert during learning, and which is very bad if I keep lazy like this, I may lose lots of chance for many things. Not only about this, I also learn something like how to organize and make a learning plan, and how to learn by myself without a person’s teaching. These are all very useful in the life, because after we leave the school in the future, if we want to learn something but can’t find a teacher, the skills that I learnt in the project can help me a lot.
Second, I want to discuss about the weakness and the strengths I had in the project. For the weakness, I think the one that I can improve the most is about the recording of my learning. As I review my recording after I submit the work, I found out that there are lots of improvement I can do, and which will help me to learn well than before. For example, now I use the form of teacher and the little card that filled with questions that I got during learning, but I think I can record the question more detail, but not only choose the one I interest and wrote it down. So next time if I do something similar, I can understand how my brain explored during the learning, and develop more new questions for studying. For the strengths, in my own opinion, I think the part I do the best is the research part. Because of the particularity of my topic, I think if I search in Chinese will give me more information than other languages, and it did work very good, I found lots of new knowledge, but I still think I can improve this strengths and make it better. Maybe next time I can search with both Chinese and English, and because of the different of language, I may find some knowledge with a different view of points, which the information will be more integrated than search with one language.
Lastly, and also the most important part, I am going to talk about what had I learn, not just a learner studying new things, but also learn about myself. For those knowledge that I had learn, I mention it quite a lot above already, so the thing I focus will more about those I learn about myself. From this whole project, I do find some of my inert during learning, and which is very bad if I keep lazy like this, I may lose lots of chance for many things. Not only about this, I also learn something like how to organize and make a learning plan, and how to learn by myself without a person’s teaching. These are all very useful in the life, because after we leave the school in the future, if we want to learn something but can’t find a teacher, the skills that I learnt in the project can help me a lot.
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