The learning goal

The Portfolio

Learning Goal: Develop agency by setting a Learning Goal, exploring a topic of your choice and showcasing your output of Learning

Self regulation: Demonstrating self-regulation in time management, decision-making, and the consideration of strategies, perspectives, and feedback to achieve your Learning Goal

Below are suggestions for tools to help you organise and compete your Learning Goal.

Remember: Record everything in your Portfolio.

1. Refining your Learning Goal

Suggestions for refining your Learning Goal.

  1. Record examples of your prereading (articles), other media and interviews and how they helped you develop the Learning Goal and plan for your project.

  2. List the strengths and limitations of the questions/ concepts you have considered and the changes you have made.

  3. include examples from your brainstorming activities (Lotus Diagram, mind map, concept map, PMI Chart etc) showing the evolution of your project. Include annotations if relevant.

  4. Write a brief introduction to your project and why you have pursued it.

Lotus Diagram

A lotus Diagram is a brainstorming and organisation tool. It helps define key concepts, parts of the broader picture and planning your next actions.

  1. Identify a topic

  2. List all current knowledge of the topic

  3. Frame a series of questions (Minimum 5) around the topic

  4. List information, data and to collect – what don’t you know?

  5. List the field techniques you will need to complete

  6. Analysis – How will you present the information

Focus Areas. (Like mind mapping)

Focus areas are a simple organisation tool.

When you plan your focus areas ask yourself the following question:

"If my Learning Project was a book, what would the chapters be?"

This list of 'chapters' would be your Focus Areas

You can use mind mapping tool like bubbl.us to lay out your focus areas.

Concept Maps or Mind Maps

A mind map is a visual diagram that organizes ideas around a central concept, using branches to show connections between related topics.

Concept Maps are similar to mind maps but often more hierarchical and detailed.

They show the relationships between main ideas, subtopics, and supporting information.

PMI Chart (Plus, Minus, Interesting)

Evaluates potential directions or ideas by sorting them into pros, cons, and curiosities.

Helps clarify values, implications, or priorities behind a question.

Planning your campaign: The timeline

A timeline plans your intended progress over the course of the project. Highlight the weekly tasks and goals that need to be achieved.