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SELF-REGULATED LEARNING COURSE
LEARNING DIARY

University of Oulu

WHAT IS SELF-REGULATED LEARNING (SRL)?
BEFORE LECTURE

1. What do you think about the learning topic?

I've known about SRL in some articles read in another course. This is an interesting topic because it gives teachers theoretical background knowledge to help students enhance their self-regulated learning skills. Besides, as a learner, the topic tells me some components of SRL process and I know which factors increase or decrease the effectiveness of SRL.

2. What is your learning goal related to this week's topic?

I want to understand SRL process, how it is applied in learning and teaching (practical methods)

3. What will you do to achieve this goal?


 * Read articles assigned - Take note


 * Listen to Prof's lectures - Take note


 * Think of the ways SRL can be applied - Take note

AFTER LECTURE

1.Did you achieve your learning goal? I understand general frameworks, components of SRL, different concepts related to SRL. However, I haven't had clear ideas and methods about how it is applied effectively in teaching students

2. What helped you to achieve your goal?

I read articles to have basic knowledge and use Mind maps to synthesize ideas, make them visible. The interactive game in class is an effective way for students to reflect on knowledge, actively listen to others as well as have some argumentations. (The game of map and dice)

Did you follow your original plans?

I followed the plan. However, I haven't taken note of practical solutions

3. What kind of challenges did you face?

Lecture class: I have some trouble taking notes. I missed the next information while I was taking not

Exercise class: I didn't remember some definitions and how to say it out loud easily to understand 4. What kind of feelings did you experience?


 * I like the game


 * I learned new knowledge of what is not self-regulation learning, compared to self-regulation learning.


 * I know that there is a big gap between Finnish education and Vietnamese education (my home country), Finnish education has not applied totally successfully self-regulation into teaching and learning.


 * Teacher suggested Handbook of Cleary, which I absolutely have a look at it

COGNITION AND METACOGNITION
BEFORE LECTURE

1. What do you think about the learning topic?

Cognition is all thinking activities including planning for a task, using strategies, etc. Metacognition is thinking about thinking, which means a higher level above thinking where you have a look at how your strategies work, whether it is necessary to have modification in using strategies, control working process and continuously adapt to have the best outcomes.

2. What is your learning goal related to this week's topic?

Distinguish cognition and metacognition, how those concepts are applied in student's life (for myself and for future students), what practical useful strategies can be used in terms of each concept.

3. What will you do to achieve this goal?


 * Read articles assigned - Take note


 * Listen to Prof's lectures - Take note


 * Think of the ways SRL can be applied - Take note

AFTER LECTURE

1.Did you achieve your learning goal?

Yes. Moreover, I have a deeper understanding of goals and strategies, how they are important, how to have questions for ourselves to evaluate goals and strategies, how SRL look like from cognitive and metacognitive perspectives.

In exercise day, I dug deep into differences between two concepts, general vs. domain specificity of metacognition, automatic vs. conscious metacognition. Talking about the assigned sub-topic and listening to others' sharing help a lot in recalling and organizing the article's points and put those into memory

2. What helped you to achieve your goal?

Read articles to have basic knowledge and use Mind maps to synthesize ideas, make them visible. Listened to the lecture. The Jigsaw activity worked well in class

Did you follow your original plans?

I didn't take note about strategies I may think of while reading. I got those passively from the lecturer

3. What kind of challenges did you face?

- Don't understand the articles at first reading. I needed to go back and read again, then took note

- I didn't search for more information about what I didn't understand while reading articles. I did research when the lecturer asked us to discuss in a group and then have presentation. This means I partly try to keep my commitment, not because of improving knowledge. 4. What kind of feelings did you experience?


 * I like the Jigsaw activity


 * I was satisfied when I finish all articles and goals for that section

MOTIVATION?
BEFORE LECTURE

1. What do you think about the learning topic?

Motivation is one of the important factors influencing SRL.

2. What is your learning goal related to this week's topic?

Understand kinds of motivation, how it influenced SRL, what kinds of motivation students of different ages may have, how to control motivation to have good learning outcomes.

3. What will you do to achieve this goal?


 * Read articles assigned - Take note


 * Listen to Prof's lectures - Take note


 * Discuss with peers

AFTER LECTURE

1.Did you achieve your learning goal? The lecture day was canceled.

On the exercise day, I didn't achieve anything in the lesson because I didn't finish reading articles beforehand. Hence, I didn't follow lots of concepts used to create a mindmap.

2. What helped you to achieve your goal?

I will read the articles again and see groups' mindmaps for more information

Did you follow your original plans?

I didn't read articles

3. What kind of challenges did you face?

- There were dozens of concepts and I misunderstood or mixed them up.

- I couldn't connect concepts well 4. What kind of feelings did you experience?


 * I feel guilty

MODELS OF SRL
BEFORE LECTURE

1. What do you think about the learning topic?

Different models of SRL. They will help teachers/ trainers see what kind of model is suitable for different ages of students. Besides, I will understand about internal connections between concepts and how SRL works

2. What is your learning goal related to this week's topic?

Understand deeply models of SRL, their application, differences between models

3. What will you do to achieve this goal?


 * Read articles assigned - Take note
 * Listen to Prof's lectures - Take note

AFTER LECTURE

1.Did you achieve your learning goal?

Yes. I understand models deeper. It was difficult for me to figure out the models' meaning by myself

2. What helped you to achieve your goal?

The detailed lecture

Did you follow your original plans?

Yes. By the way, I took notes in PDF files with models' representations.

3. What kind of challenges did you face?

Before lecture: I didn't see the link between concepts 4. What kind of feelings did you experience?


 * I was satisfied and felt good because I understood more about those models