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-For students- Idea: Making a 'study log'

  • 1.  -For students- Idea: Making a 'study log'

    Posted Wed February 26, 2020 10:50 PM
    Hello everyone, after a couple weeks this idea came up to my mind and wanted to share it to the community...
    Basically what I propose is to create a discussion where people who is currently learning something about Data Science or AI (be it from courses, literature, working, etc) post their 'study log'. Many people may ask why this would be beneficial at all and here are some reasons:
    1. Because writing down what you have done forces people to recall information and also gives them the opportunity to speak it out to the community.
    2. It gives the users more awareness of the overall learning and creating experience reminding him basic things that he might eventually forget.
    3. If someone creates a discussion about some complex problem (or maybe not complex but long to explain), it would be very helpful to have an experience log so that he who intends to give an answer and wants a bit more of information can access to it if needed.

    What do you think? I encourage everyone to post a sample log to maybe see how it feels to retrieve what you learned. Try to make first an overall general description and then write it down the details.



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  • 2.  RE: -For students- Idea: Making a 'study log'

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu February 27, 2020 12:07 PM
    Hi Marco,
    There are two types of study log.  One is where you develop a study plan at the beginning of the study term or semester. These days, the institution usually provides a fairly detailed set of schedules including time to be allocated to each event in the schedule that must be covered by the student.   As you work through the semester, you log the amount of time against the plan to determine whether you are on track relative to the institution's recommendations.  The log can be submitted as part of the overall assessment of the course and can be used to demonstrate intent where there might be a marginal fail.  The log pushes the student over the line and, so sadly, it can be fabricated.

    That is probably not what you were intending.  A learning journal is similar to the log in that it is an event-driven record over a time sequence.  However, it is more focused on the actual thought processes that were employed by the learner in a journey of discovery, the methodologies that were applied, the resources used, the collaborations that assisted in the knowledge transfer and everything else that resulted in learning outcomes.  It includes the rabbit holes as well as the Eureka moments.  Learning journals are invaluable in the research context, but at the end of the journey, it can be embarrassing to realise the ignorance of beginnings.

    I hope this helps.

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    Murray Woods
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