{"id":728,"date":"2013-10-15T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=728"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:53:47","slug":"professional-development-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an unusual module in so far as the assessment was an interview. In preparation for the interview it made me very aware of what I had achieved up until I started the course and made me focus on what I wanted to get out of it.<\/p>\n<p>The reading were very good and I found myself surprisingly interested in\u00a0An avalanche is coming (Barber et al, 2013) which argued many points but I found it fascinating, <a title=\"An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=418\">click here<\/a> to see reflection. Another interesting reading was Prensky (2001) digital Natives, Digital Immigrants which argued that digital literacy is not linked to the year a person was born.<\/p>\n<p>For the interview I had to bring an artifact that was important to me and my learning. I am a scout leader and brought my wood beads, which is a sign of training completed, and explained that when you complete the formal training you know where you have to start. I reference this to online badges as a reward for achievement.<\/p>\n<p>All in all this was a good module which really focussed thought on where I was coming from and where I wanted to go which allowed me to identify the gap in between. \u00a0This tied into\u00a0Lev Vygotskys Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which we covered in the Learning Theories Module, see<a title=\"Learning Theroies Week 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=116\"> reflection<\/a> from week 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>References<\/h1>\n<p>Barber M., Donnelly K., Rizvi S. (2013), An Avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, http:\/\/www.ippr.org\/images\/media\/files\/publication\/2013\/04\/avalanche-is-coming_Mar2013_10432.pdf<\/p>\n<p>Prensky, Marc (2001). \u201cDigital Natives, Digital Immigrants\u201d. On the Horizon 9 (5): 1\u20136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was an unusual module in so far as the assessment was an interview. In preparation for the interview it made me very aware of what I had achieved up until I started the course and made me focus on what I wanted to get out of it. The reading were very good and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-reflection","category-professional-development","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}