Reflection on Bloom's Taxonomy and Linear Project Management

This assignment does not need to be too academic, as it is just a reflection on learning, and being too academic and technical will make the teacher suspect me of academic cheating. The teacher is very strict in academic cheating. Carefully read the homework requirements and complete them according to the requirements, reducing the description of objective facts and rewriting of other author sentences and paragraphs. The teacher pays more attention to the combination of personal cases and personal insights.

You will submit your reflections combined in one document clearly separated by four headlines for each week starng with week 1, week 2 etc via Turnin. You should write 250 words for each week +/- 10%. What is the purpose of this assessment? An important part of Project Management competency is self-awareness of your own emoons, feelings, and thoughts. The Reflective Learning Journal is intended to assist you with this.

The overall intended outcome is that you become consciously aware of your feelings, thoughts and acons, beliefs and values by guiding you to recognise and analyse your responses to certain learning situaons and then unravel and explain how and why you reacted in a certain way. In doing so, you may refer to the seminar discussion, team acvies, literature you have read, and even maybe to your own work and life situaon. In short you may refer to any learning situaon or experience which got you thinking. You should refer to at least two course readings in your combined journal entries. What do you need to do? You are asked to idenfy your own values, atudes and beliefs (as per denion in the Kath Fisher (2004) week 2 reading on pp 4-7) underlying your reactions to various learning situaons and to reect on how such values, beliefs and atudes might aect your studies and your world outside the university. Thus, the report should not be a mere summary of the information garnered from the classes. Entries should be relevant to learning and progress related to the unit of study and professional applicaon. The following structure and quesons will help you with your reecon and wring process: 1. What am I bringing to this course in terms of knowledge and curiosity? 2. What happened? A brief description of the learning situation Describe the learning situation, for example something you came across in the readings and or something that has been mentioned in class. What caught your attention? What was your instant reaction? Differentiate between ‘thinking’ and ‘feeling’ . Were you ‘feeling’ or ‘thinking’? Identify your specific emotions What exactly did you feel? Why did you feel that way?

Analyse the learning event in relation to your prior knowledge, feelings and attiudes What exactly did you think? What judgment do you make? What is this judgment based upon – experience, beliefs, values, education, knowledge etc? Evaluate two or three points from one of the weekly readings that help you to understand the issue, situaon or event. Make judgment on your judgment. Is it helpful? Is it objective? (adapted from Smyth 2008) 3. Have you gained a new understanding of a certain issue or a situation? How valuable is it? What is your new understanding? How will you approach the same or similar situation or issue in the future? But most importantly: What have you learnt about yourself through this process? How will you use the knowledge in your academic/professional development You could comment on: 1. Your sources of learning (arcles, course material, your own work environment, other units of study, team/group work on assignment) and explain their inuence on your thinking and development. Make sure that you reference all your sources! 2. How critical thinking and reecon eect your work in the team, your work or other places? How is crical thinking dierent from other relevant PM competencies like problem identification and problem solving? How does critical thinking impact on all or some facets of project management/your present and future professional pracce? 3. Your view of the barriers or enablers to making project management and your study more eecve in the future with regard to crical thinking.