On learning journals: "The value of a never-ending learning process"

Throughout the whole process of posting entries related with topics dealt with during the ECO II lessons, I have come to realize the value of learning journals. One of the learning journals’ main features, as described in the “Study Skills advice sheet” of the University of Worcester (England), is that they allow students to reflect about their own learning process. Moreover, it is also claimed that these are not only a descriptive account of what has been done during lessons. On the contrary, these constitute opportunities for the learners to communicate their thinking process, i.e. why and how they did what they did, what they think about it. I strongly agree with this description, and I would add that learning journals allow you to make connections between the different subjects, express your own hypotheses, share your thoughts with your classmates, and make an ongoing assessment of your own learning process. These factors have not only allowed me to improve my learning but also to value it even more. It also helped me to appreciate not only the product of the learning but the process of learning itself.

To conclude, I would like to close this last post by making use of the saying: “every ending is also a new beginning”. Therefore, this “learning about my own learning process” will continue, as an ongoing and never-ending process, which will allow me to keep on growing not only as a learner but also as a teacher.