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Reflective Journal for Computer Science Principles

Reflective journals are an important part of learning. Most successful students will know how to identify questions and problems as they reflect upon what they already know, what they want, what they need to know, and how will they will proceed forward to increase their understanding.

Reflective journals will allow you to practice your writing skills. It will encourage your ability to analyze and think about what you learned. The most powerful learning occurs when you think about what you learned, whether or not you understood something, and if you need to relearn what you did not understand. You will figure out what you need to do to improve your own learning!

For this reflective journal, you will answer the following questions to help you write your journal on a weekly basis. Use at least five sentences as you answer each journal. for each new journal, type the date, bold and italicize it. Here are the questions.

1. Describe and summarize what are you supposed to learn by the end of the week; use the daily learning targets as a guide.

2. Describe the evidence that demonstrates what you learn; for example, what did you do during class this week that demonstrates what you were supposed to learn?

3. How did you feel about what you learned this week? Describe your feelings about it.

4. Do you think it was important to learn these daily learning targets? Think about the future and how learning these topics may be important for you to know.

Examples:

Week 11: April 7 - 11

Week 12: April 14 - 18