Six Weeks In: Using Writing to Reflect on our Development

Time is less and less our friend this semester! Finals are fast approaching, and we’ve yet to post a single entry. Our intention for Sariling Atin blog page was to keep our friends “in-the-loop” as to what we are learning and experiencing in our Bayan Learning Community. 

To be sure, we’ve been writing, reading, reflecting - a lot! And many of the assignments were tailored toward composing digestible bits and bites of our experiences to share with our readers. But we haven't kept up with our commitment to publicize our journey. 

This post shares Bayan Scholars thoughts and feelings about joining our learning community and their reflections about their first semester in college (all but one or two scholars are entering, first-year freshman). During the sixth week of class, we used Padlet to record our reflections. If you want to enlarge a particular scholar’s post, float your cursor toward the top right-hand corner of post and select “expand”. 

The purpose of this "Padlet project" was to engage in “metacognition”, to reflect on our thinking and our experiences. We used writing to develop introspection skills to support learning and personal development. A second aim was to make public the variety and range of experiences scholars encounter in an ethnic/culturally-focused learning community. 

We have at least eight posts in the pipeline. Stay tuned! We welcome comments!