You can name facts you learnt on this course. Today is different. You will name how you learn: the habits that got you through two years of reading, writing, speaking and making.
This runs as a double period or across two classes. Sitting 1 is the audit with portfolios open; Sitting 2 is the How I Learn Now sheet into your Communication Portfolio folder. By the end of Sitting 2 you will have three habits, a course example for each, and one paragraph on what you will keep doing after LCA.
Knowing a fact and knowing how you learnt it are not the same thing. The second is what this lesson is about.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Metacognition: thinking about how you think and learn, not only what you know. | You notice the moves that work for you, so you can use them on purpose. | Realising you plan better after a short walk than after staring at a blank page |
| Learning habits: the regular ways you approach work that help you improve. | You can name three habits from this course and point to where you used them. | Drafting messy first, then redrafting with both versions in front of you |
The point of naming habits is so you can choose what continues after LCA: a plan you pick, not a list someone else wrote for you.
Worked example. Habit: I read a draft aloud before I call it finished. Course example, from one student: reading her film review aloud, she heard two sentences saying the same thing and cut one. That is learning how to learn, not just learning a topic.
Open your Communication Portfolio and skim a few recent pieces before you rate. Rate yourself on how you learn now. Every rating needs a sentence of evidence from this course: a piece, a lesson, or a moment. Nobody is adding these up. Line 6 is open: name a habit of your own if your strongest one is not already on the list.
This audit is your source bank for the next step. You will pick your strongest three habits and their evidence for the How I Learn Now sheet (one of those three can come from line 6). The ratings on screen are not saved, so when you finish, press Copy for my portfolio and paste them into the box below. That keeps your evidence ready for the sheet, even in Sitting 2.
Look back at your Mark It Up ratings (in the box under the audit, if this is Sitting 2). Choose the three habits with the strongest course evidence and build your sheet from those. One of the three can come from the open line you named yourself.
Write your How I Learn Now sheet (150–220 words): three learning habits, one course example for each, then a short paragraph on what you will keep doing after LCA (what, where, and how you will know it is working). Mark weak spots and fix those lines. Copy the finished piece into your Communication Portfolio folder as m4_l118_how_i_learn_<your-initials>.docx (or the format you already use).
Talk this through with the person beside you, or sit with it quietly.
Nothing to type on this page. The longer thinking can go in your Reflective Journal later if you want it there.
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