This week’s activity on peer reviewing each other’s reflections brought me back to our initial activity on reflective writing. It was very interesting to see what other people came up with for their posts and especially to consider how two people who participated in the same class activity can take their reflections in such different directions. I greatly enjoyed reading my peer’s work and seeing how thought provoking the lessons and readings can be for people. It was also nice to have the opportunity to receive feedback on my own work and gain a new perspective! Sometimes when I work on something for too long, it becomes hard to consider it from new perspectives. I’ve very much gotten into the rhythm of these reflections, but it’s also good to take a step back and see something in new ways sometimes, so I appreciated this activity all the more.
The Moon article on the reflection process is interesting to consider now that we’ve been doing this writing for many weeks. I wonder how people’s thinking changes when they let their reflections sit for a while as opposed to writing them down right away. This ties into the process that Moon describes of relating, experimenting, exploring, and reinterpreting, making me think that it is impossible to do all of these at once in a compressed time period. Therefore, I’ve decided based on our class activities/discussions/readings that perhaps a better way to reflect is to think about something for a while first before writing it down and solidifying one’s thoughts.
I’ve decided to implement this process in my own reflection writing and not write the reflections immediately after class, giving myself time to mull everything over before putting it into words. I am curious to see how this strategy will change my reflections in the coming weeks, perhaps deepening them in a new way.
