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Reflection Prompts
Here is a gallery of questions you can use to jump-start your reflection. Scan through and choose whatever is most useful to you.
Review
How would you teach what you have learned to a 4th grader?
What are the key words from your learning experience? Retell it without using those words.
Catalogue the sensory experience of your learning: list what you smelled, tasted, heard, felt, saw.
Tell someone what you learned, but do it in another language.
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?
Feel
How did you feel during the learning experience? When was the last time you felt that way?What was happening?
What was the strongest emotion you experienced during this learning experience? Why do you think you felt that way?
Think of 5 different people you know. How would each of them feel about what you’ve learned? Explain.
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?
Metaphor / Simile
If the process you have been through were a metaphor for something else, what would it be?
Use a metaphor to describe your learning.
What colour is the understanding you have gained?Why that colour?
What are 7 ways what you learned is like Harry Potter, Star Wars or the Lord of the Rings?
If what you have learned was the key to a clue that solved a crime, what would the crime have been?
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?
Create
Take the most important ideas you’ve learned and encode them. Hide them and the decoder key in the library.
Write down key words from your learning. Arrange them into a poem.
Make a soundtrack/playlist that accompanies your learning experience. Explain your choices.
Retell your learning in a very short story. Make it heroic.
Create a mathematical formula or diagram that represents your learning.
Which fictional character would be interesting to talk about this? Write your conversation.
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?
Connect
What are you studying in another subject that is related to this?
Who else in your life would find this interesting? Why?
How would your learning experience have been different if you’d done it in different country
How does what you’ve learned relate to a current event you are aware of?
Can you connect what you have learned here to something else in your own life - a book you’ve read, a place you’ve been, someone you know? Explain.
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?
Extend
What do you want to know now?
What is the opposite of what you’ve learned?
In what way could the thing you have learned cause the most harm or do the most good?
Does what you have learned have any moral, religious, or ethical implications? What are they?
How does technology impact what you have learned about? What would be the most useful/destructive tech? What’s the least amount of tech necessary? What tech that doesn’t yet exist would make it easier?
What did you learn?
Why is it important?
How are you different as a result of this experience?