Jian SRL 1

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Part One: Introduction to SRL

Target objective:

Learners will be able to characterize the meaning of self-regulated learning, and to identify its key components.

Learning activity:

Go to Google Scholar, search and choose an scholarly article that talks about "self-regulated learning". Share your finding in the Forum. Post the PDF full article, the citation in APA format, and explain why you pick it. Repost is not acceptable. Check out what others have posted before submitting your own.

Assignments:

1. Personal statement: Please explain why you take this course, what you know about the topics mentioned in Syllabus, what you expect to get from this course, and what difficulties or challenges you expect to run into and why.
2. Synthesis: Browsing through classmates' selections of articles on SRL, pick three (one of them is yours) and write up a brief synthesis about SRL.

Scaffolding tips for the instructor:

1. This part should be considered as part of the ice-breaking module, usually occurred at the beginning of the semester. Paired it with whatever ice-breaking activities you wish to implement.
2. Make sure to respond to each student's submission by asking follow-up questions that will inspire more in-depth self-reflection on what brought them here, and how their learning can start from there. This is an important step, as when the group project comes in in the next module, the discrepancy between individual and group plans will occur. Our goal is to make sure in the end both plans are on the same course.