Personal Learning Journal 

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Personal Learning Journal

Details of Task: Reflection is the individual equivalent of review and evaluation and is an essential component of the learning process. The subject has a considerable applied component which requires students to trial  and practice theories, ideas and tools learned in class and on-line. This assessment takes this one step further. Students are required to select one topic from the material in weeks one to four and reflect on how this topic impacted their life, career, studies and personal or professional relationships. The assignment should discuss personal learning experiences based on topics covered in weeks one to four. They should not include what was discussed in class, but how these topics relate to previous learning, such as work or childhood experiences. The topics that students may choose from include: Flow Engagement Bias and stereotypes Strengths (limit it to your top three) – do not discuss weaknesses One of the four components of HERO – Hope, Self-efficacy, Resilience or Optimism Appreciative focus – learning from success The learning journal should consist of the following sections:      1. Your Learning experience (1000 words) Choosing a topic, write a story about what happened in your life and how the topic you have chosen (see above) relates to this event. While you can structure the journal as best suits the event, you might like to include the following in the learning experience, these are not headings just something you might like to weave into your story: ● Give your experience a name ● When did it happen? e.g. month / year ● A description of the event, your personal learning and the situation / context ● Your actions and reactions ● What did you learn from the event as a result? BEX5604 Professional development – Semester 2 (S2-01) – 2019 11 ● What did you learn from the event as a result? ● Tie the event into the academic literature, how does it align with what the researchers say about the topic? As you write it up you may want to write about the event and then discuss the literature separately, tying the literature to the event in a separate paragraph. Alternatively, you might like to combine the literature with the discussion of your event, highlighting where your life event supports or contradicts the research. Include at least eight (8) academic references in your discussion. Start with the readings from the reading list but make certain you go beyond these readings in your literature search. Please use academic articles, not websites and do not reference the lectures. Do not use topics from other subjects in your discussion, stick with the content from this subject. You might like to aim for 300-400 words for your story and the remainder to discuss how the story fits in with the academic research on the topic area. This section answers the ‘who’; you obviously and anyone else that is in your story, the ‘what’, specifically what topic you have chosen for your journal and lastly, the ‘why’, the impact that this event had that made you realise you needed to shift or address. The impact of the event can be either positive or negative. Your story may be about something that went well, that you want to use or see more of in your life, or something that showed clearly how you needed to change. Our preference is that you choose a positive event, however if you have a negative event that you deem as offering more value to your future, use it.      2. Vision for the future (500 words) Based on your learnings in the previous section, describe your best possible life in some detail at a future point in time. You might like to use a 12 month period or a little further out, up to a maximum of three years. Try and sit back and dream about what your future would look like with these changes in place, or you may have already identified where you will be. Have some fun putting this into words. Make sure you discuss how your chosen topic impacts upon your future success. Discuss not only your career but your life as a whole. This section answers the ‘where’ question, such as a country, or business sector.      3. Action Plan (500 words)  In this section you must outline how you will go about developing / bridging the identified areas for growth in sections one and two. The action plan should highlight what you expect to achieve, time frames, how you will assess your improvements and the necessary resources you will need to get you there. Where necessary the plan should be supported by appropriate literature and use of selfassessment tools and diagnostics (e.g. – the articles and self-assessment resources available on Moodle). This section answers the ‘how’ and ‘when’ questions. Specifically, what will you do to accomplish your goals and when will you have completed it. The when is important as it is likely that you will have subsections of tasks that you need to do to accomplish your overall goal. Consider using S.M. A.R.T. goals in this section (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-based). Using a table works well for your Action Plan which outlines the goals and specific actions you will take by specific dates. Use landscape mode for your table so it is easier to mark.

 identify one idea advanced by that learner that strikes you as particularly useful, and describe how you might use it. What questions or suggestions can you offer each

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 identify one idea advanced by that learner that strikes you as particularly useful, and describe how you might use it. What questions or suggestions can you offer each?

Christine post

 

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a model used as a mechanism to help establish and display cognitive complexity in writing substantial literature. (Granello, 2001).  Bloom’s technology is that each of the six levels in the hierarchy provides an essential skill for students who would like to write cognitively advanced works of literature. (Krathwohl, 2002).

One of the main strengths of Bloom’s Taxonomy is that it can be used as a growth instrument for writing while providing structure for organizing thoughts by providing structure for developing writing.  For example, when instructors read students’ papers, they can access which areas a student may need help with and develop curricula and provide feedback designed to help them progress to the next level.  (Krathwohl, 2002).  This is done by accessing which level of the hierarchy the student’s writing falls based on the definitions for each of the six domain categories in the cognitive domain while providing a visual of what is the next level that they need to master.

According to new research (Krathwohl, 2002)­­­­, Bloom’s Taxonomy is not an all-encompassing model of writing, which is a weakness because it may not identify areas that the student needs to develop regarding their writing skills.  The categories that Bloom uses are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Krathwohl, 2002)­­­­.  To get a full assessment of a student’s writing would require the use of an additional tool.  Having to use two or more models to improve writing can make things a little more complicated.  This may result in two different assessment that does not correlate with each other at all.

Even though Bloom’s Taxonomy is not an all-encompassing mode, it is a valuable tool that I can use to assist me in organizing my writing to ensure that it is clear by ensuring that I demonstrate the use of all six levels of the Taxonomy as defined by Bloom and to access my learning and writing abilities and define areas that I need to improve in.  By closely looking at the well-defined Taxonomy, I should be able to quickly identify shortcomings.  I can also use this model as I read research articles to assist me with my critical thinking and analysis by focusing in on the six categories that Bloom uses.

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Like any theoretical model, Bloom’s Taxonomy has its strengths and weaknesses. Its greatest strength is that it has taken the very important topic of thinking and placed a structure around it that is usable by practitioners. Those teachers who keep a list of question prompts relating to the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy undoubtedly do a better job of encouraging higher-order thinking in their learners than those who have no such tool. On the other hand, as anyone who has worked with a group of educators to classify a group of questions and learning activities according to the Taxonomy can attest, there is little consensus about what seemingly self-evident terms like “analysis,” or “evaluation” mean (Bloom,1956). In addition, so many worthwhile activities, such as authentic problems and projects, cannot be mapped to the Taxonomy, and trying to do that would diminish their potential as learning opportunities.

According to this taxonomy, each level of knowledge can correspond to each level of cognitive process, so a learner can remember factual or procedural knowledge, understand conceptual or meta cognitive knowledge, or analyze metacognitive or factual knowledge (Bloom,1956). According to Anderson and his colleagues, “Meaningful learning provides learners with the knowledge and cognitive processes they need for successful problem solving”(Bloom,1956). The following charts list examples of each skill of the Cognitive and Knowledge Dimensions.

Discussion 2

In each case, choose one of the themes identified by your peer, and compare it to the themes that you arrived at. Identify one example related to your specialization, and explain how these themes would apply.

Richild post

 

After reading the article I was able to learn about the three different theories. Mcclelland ‘s theory discussed  the achievement motivation theory. David believed that the higher level needs were the most important for work purposes. He goes on to talk about the three main socially developed motives. the first motive being achievement,  the second is power, and the third the affiliative motives (McCelelland, 1988). McClelland focused his research on testing an individuals motivation level. On the other hand, Maslow theory is the hierarchy of needs. He works with a pyramid structure which includes physiological needs, safety needs, needs for love, self -esteem needs, and self actualization. By hierarchy is meant that needs lower on the pyramid must generally be satisfied before needs at higher levels are “activated” (Neher, 1991). Maslow believe that everyone is born with certain needs, which prepotent in that they occupy their attention until they are satisfied. When it comes to Herzberg, his theory proposed two factors that influence motivation at work, Hygiene motive and satisfiers or motivators.  The theory challenged the dominant theoretical assumptions prevailing at the time that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction could be presented on a continuum, at the midpoint of which, an individual would experience a neutral state being neither satisfied nor dissatisfied (Bassett-Jones, & Lloyd, 2005) .

Between the three theories there are some similarities. All authors talk about how to motivate people. They all discuss what people need and want in order to do better at work.  They also talk about how individuals need that recognition and a certain level of respect since everyone shares some form of ego. They can all be classified under explanatory tools.

RESPOND TO THE NEXT TWO STUDENT POST AND BE CONSTRUCTIVE AND PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPONSES.

Chelsea post

 

A book that I read when I was a teenager has really stuck with me into my adulthood years, it’s a book written by Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone. I remember reading the book and Dolores story leaving an impact on me, it changed the way that I looked at certain things, and realized there is a lot of things that are complicated to explain, and she had some hard times in her life but was able to find some happiness at the end. I think that this book shaped the way that I look at literature in society in that people like Dolores exist, they have similar struggles in their life, and this book could possibly help those people. The reason why is that literature is important in society, but it takes a special author and their writing to make someone feel something, after all most of these stories are made up, I think that Lamb’s book goes hand in hand with today’s society, and reading this book has the influence to change people’s perspective on what actually goes through someone’s mind who has gone through traumatic events like Dolores. How we become critical readers is to take apart what you’re reading and study it and try to understand where the author is coming from. I usually read something and come up with questions or talk to people who’ve read the same thing to try to understand it, and I this is who I become a more active and responsive reader.

Brittany post

 

Literature has a very large impact on our society, and has had one for however long you believe the earth has been around. Common modern day literature is supposed to be influential on we humans, because it is supposed to teach us a lesson. Books are written by individuals, but they are also influenced by that individual’s society. Therefore, it is important to consider a work’s cultural context. Culture can refer to the beliefs, customs, values, and activities of a particular group of people at a particular time. Modern day morals aren’t found in modern day literature. It has shaped civilizations changed political systems and exposed injustice. Literature gives us a detailed preview of human experiences, allowing us to connect on basic levels of desire and emotion. Literature shows the ideas and culture of a people. The way we think about something comes across in our writing. A society’s history is reflected in literature based upon the fact that their actions, many times, are a result of what is happening around them in the society which they live in. There is the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing.

Create a new thread. As indicated above, create a new thread, and describe how you would go about ensuring the security of data stored on a public blockchain.

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This week’s reading introduced an overview of blockchain security. Create a new thread, and describe how you would go about ensuring the security of data stored on a public blockchain. Assume that your blockchain app is one that manages prescription drugs for individual patients. Considering each of the elements of the CIA triad, describe how you might protect the blockchain data security. Then think of three questions you’d like to ask other students and add these to the end of your thread. The questions should be taken from material you read or videos you watched from this week’s assigned activities. You’re not trying to test each other, but you are trying to start a discussion.

You must do the following:

1) Create a new thread. As indicated above, create a new thread, and describe how you would go about ensuring the security of data stored on a public blockchain. Assume that your blockchain app is one that manages prescription drugs for individual patients. Considering each of the elements of the CIA triad, describe how you might protect the blockchain data security. Then think of three questions you’d like to ask other students and add these to the end of your thread. The questions should be taken from material you read or videos you watched from this week’s assigned activities. You’re not trying to test each other, but you are trying to start a discussion.

2) Select AT LEAST 3 other students’ threads and post substantive comments on those threads. Your comments should answer AT LEAST one of the questions posed in the thread and extend the conversation started with that thread. Make sure that you include the question in your comment so I can see what question you’re answering.

ALL original posts and comments must be substantive. (I’m looking for about a paragraph – not just a short answer.)

Sources to use:

Examine the potential lessons that the “Stopping Outshopping” case could teach health care executives about complacency.

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Read the case study titled “Stopping Outshopping”, located in the online course shell. Then, use the Internet or to research similar marketing strategies in the health care industry.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  • Based on the textbook’s summary of Timothy’s philosophy of continually striving for excellence, determine whether or not Scarlet Hospital was prepared to compete with the establishment in Salem even before the highway improvement mandated such an upgrade in delivery health care services.
  • Examine the potential lessons that the “Stopping Outshopping” case could teach health care executives about complacency.
  • Evaluate the potential value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis and SWOT Analysis for effective decision making, in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital protect its market share and thus decrease the chance of losing patients to other institutions in Salem.
  • Appraise the value of the Balanced Scorecard model in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital executives reinforce its defensive marketing strategy.
  • Propose a one (1) page offensive marketing strategy (i.e. communication, branding, innovation, etc.) that Scarlet Hospital should deploy in order to turn the table on Salam-based health care providers and improve its competitive marketing position.
  • Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.