My Virtual Life: Reflection and Application Paper.

My Virtual Life: Reflection & Application Paper (30%)
As part of your learning in this course, I am required to raise a virtual child from birth to 18 years. To do this, you have complete an online child simulation program through Pearson’s My Virtual Life program housed within REVEL. Through this simulation, I made my own choices and observed the impact of my parenting choices on my child’s development over time, and identify how my choices interact with other environmental and genetic factors to determine developmental outcomes. Then Please complete a reflection and application paper on this experience (specific guidelines for the paper are below).
HOW TO ACCESS MY VIRTUAL LIFE AND CHECK MY CHOCIES:
• Once in REVEL, under “Assignments”, you will see the ‘MyVirtualLife’ assignment. Click on this, and it will take you to the My Virtual Life Simulation.
• I have complete the simulation from the ‘Create Your Virtual Child’ stage up until the end of the ‘Ages 12-18’ Stage.
Here is the link:
https://revel-ise(dot)pearson(dot)com/courses/5f2c1245ccdaf5001a893d0b/assignments
NOTES: Before start the reflection, please go over through the whole process and choices that I have made on the assignment(see the link). Please review the overall life and report card of the children. I am the “mom(she)” of two children, Grace and Olivia, please only focus on the my first child who named Grace. The paper should be written in both first person (I, me and partner) and third person (Grace, she). This course is about earl childhood education and human development. The link of the assignment is also combined with textbook, please feel free to make connection to the textbook with appropriate citation, you could mention some theorist theory in early childhood education or human development to explain a few how these theory affect you in making these choices, such as Piaget, or Vygotsky’s ZPD theory, but please do not heavily depend on the textbook resources because this is a personal reflection. You can also talked about both positive and negative of the process of raising this child. You can also find no more than five journal scientific articles to support the refection when talking about the influences of nature/nurture’s with proper citation. Please see the instruction and criteria by following:
The paper structure should be strictly adhered by following requirements, and criteria structure.
REFLECTION & APPLICATION PAPER
Please follow the sections below to complete your reflection and application paper:
1. INTRODUCTION:
In the opening paragraph, introduce us to your child. Provide a brief summary of your child from infancy through age 18 (e.g., personality, attitudes, interests, choices, behaviours, achievements).
2. REFLECTING ON YOUR CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT:
The bulk of your assignment will be spent reflecting on your child’s development. A perennial question asked by lifespan developmentalists concerns the extent to which HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IS DETERMINED BY BIOLOGICAL (I.E., “NATURE”) AND ENVIRONMENTAL/CULTURAL (I.E., “NURTURE”) FACTORS. Although many early developmentalists conceived of this as an “either-or” relationship, nowadays developmentalists generally endorse an interactionist model, which recognizes the joint influences of nature and nurture on human development.
In this section, you will select THREE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS of your child (e.g., a specific aspect of personality, temperament, or attitude; a specific interest or choice; a behaviour or achievement; etc.), and IDENTIFY FACTORS THAT, IN YOUR REASONED OPINION, HAD THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE EMERGENCE OF EACH CHARACTERISTIC. Do not explain your child’s development generally; please identify factors that are specifically related to your child within the context of this simulation (e.g., your specific parenting choices; genetic or other biological information that you provided about yourself; specific life events or experiences). The characteristics you choose can be from any stage of your child’s development, from birth to 18 years, and do not have to be from the same stage of development.
With these three characteristics in mind, you will then EXPLAIN WHETHER NATURE (e.g., genetics, biology, brain development), NURTURE (e.g., education, parenting, aspects of culture), OR THEIR INTERACTION (the combination or joint impact of nature and nurture) best explains development of those characteristics. For some characteristics, you may believe they are best explained by nature; for others, you may think nurture offers the best explanation; and for others, you may think that it is the joint, interacting effect of nature and nurture that has shaped that trait. In all cases, make sure to justify your choice on the basis of concrete examples from your child’s upbringing. Also, be sure not to focus on one aspect only (nature only or nurture only) for all three characteristics – your paper should reflect an understanding of both.
This part of the assignment is an application of knowledge from the course, and perhaps other scientific sources that support course material. As such, it is not sufficient to explain in very general or colloquial terms why you think a certain characteristic developed the way it did. Instead, you are expected to draw on course material from the text or lectures in order to explain your reasoning behind the nature, nurture, or interactionist perspective. Importantly, there may not be one “right” answer, and that is okay. THE GOAL IS TO HAVE A REASONED AND INFORMED EXPLANATION OF YOUR CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT on the basis of what you have learned in the course and any other scientific/scholarly material you think support that opinion.
3. QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT YOUR CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT:
As you were raising your child you likely came across some developmental outcomes that surprised you, confused you, or that you just didn’t understand given what you have learned about human development at this point. What questions do you have as a result of having completed the simulation? What are you curious about learning more about to help you better understand your child? In this section, IDENTIFY TWO QUESTIONS THAT HAVE EMERGED FOR YOU AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE THINGS (CONNECTED TO DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, OR PRACTICE). Make sure that it is clear why these questions emerged (i.e., how they are connected to your child). (Note: The questions you identify might be connected to topics that will come up later in our course together or in another course in the program. You may also choose to use one of these questions to form your research question for your final paper in this course.)
4. PARTING PARENTING ADVICE:
In a paragraph, describe what advice you would give to another parent BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE THAT YOU HAD WITH YOUR VIRTUAL CHILD, and why you are giving that advice. Feel free to select one particular aspect of your experience to focus on (e.g., one decision that you made and the impact that it had) or to speak more globally.
*Be sure to consider the evaluation criteria below to support your preparation of the paper.
FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment, you are not required to draw in external research; therefore, in-text citations and a reference list are not required. If you specifically reference something from your textbook, please cite the authors of the text (Boyd, Johnson, & Bee, 2020) and include a reference list with the textbook as the single entry. You may also cite other scientific articles if you feel they support your ideas, but this is not required. If you do so, please be sure to include these in the reference list. Please use headings to differentiate the sections of your paper.
Evaluation Criteria and Structure:
Assignment Component Value Characteristics of a High-Quality Paper
Introduction
• Provides a biographical sketch of the child
• Describes key personal characteristics of the child
• Helps the reader to “get to know” the child
Reflection on Development
• Developmental characteristics are clearly described (in sufficiently elaborate and specific terms), including relevant contextual information, such as the child’s age or developmental stage and life circumstances at the point of development
• Clearly identifies and describes what factors affected development and how they are thought to have influenced development (i.e., developmental mechanisms are clearly described)
• Explains why the identified factor is thought to be more influential than alternative factors in explaining development
• Demonstrates significant mastery of course material
• Arguments are well-reasoned and based on evidence/examples from the virtual child simulation
Questions
• Identifies two questions
• Questions are thoughtful and make sense within
the context of the child’s life
• Explains why the author is curious and wants to
learn more about these things, with a connection to development, education, or practice
Parting Parenting Advice
• Provides thoughtful and reflective advice
• Advice is specific and coherent
• Advice makes sense within the context of the
child’s life
• Explains “why” the particular advice was given
Communication and Style
• Writing is organized and cohesive
• Reader can follow the ideas
• Punctuation is appropriate
• Paper includes required headings
• Few or no spelling or grammatical errors
• Word limit is adhered to
Thank you so much and stay safe, let me know if you have any questions.