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Reflective Practice

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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Reflective Practice

Barriers and Challenges to Reflective Practice in delivering digital literacy
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Barriers to Reflective Practice in delivering digital literacy and possible solutions.

1. The answer lies in the reflection of how individuals learn from getting things wrong, we can re-enforce the learning by getting it wrong.
2. Setting short term goals will provide small steps to success and build development towards achieving bigger goals.
3. Time is the biggest hurdle for some people, being realistic to what can be achieved is the first step to good personal time management.

Kolb (1984) sees that to reflect effectively on your experience, you should actively set aside part of your working day to reflect & analyse. Kolb, D. (1984) Experiential Learning. New Jersey; Prentice Hall

1. Sharing good practice and positive outcomes from other practitioners can foster confidence in the process.
2. Difficult to be open at first but recognising that any criticism if given constructively will also provide a positive outcome.
3. First do no harm thus a mentor should always look to build on what is done right before breaking down what is wrong. Thus support needs to reflect the best in a person so that they can feel confident in looking at their shortcomings and weaknesses.
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Barriers:

  • A lack of confidence or self esteem and a fear of failure, especially concerning technology and digital literacy.
  • Unrealistic expectations about what new forms of digital learning can be achieved.
  • Insufficient time or inadequate preparation to learn digital literacy.
1. The answer lies in the reflection of how individuals learn from getting things wrong, we can re-enforce the learning by getting it wrong.
2. Setting short term goals will provide small steps to success and build development towards achieving bigger goals.
3. Time is the biggest hurdle for some people, being realistic to what can be achieved is the first step to good personal time management.

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Barriers

  • Entrenched and distrust of reflective practice adds to the fear of technology.
  • Psychological Barriers, Fear of judgement, fear of criticism. Technology adds to these insecurities.
  • Inadequate support and ineffective observational skills, thus the mentor needs to be digitally literate.
1. Sharing good practice and positive outcomes from other practitioners can foster confidence in the process.
2. Difficult to be open at first but recognising that any criticism if given constructively will also provide a positive outcome.
3. First do no harm thus a mentor should always look to build on what is done right before breaking down what is wrong. Thus support needs to reflect the best in a person so that they can feel confident in looking at their shortcomings and weaknesses.
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Purpose of Reflective Practice in delivering digital literacy.

Purpose of Reflective Practice in delivering digital literacy.

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Reflective practice may help to enable us to be more conscious & systematic to critique our own practice:

Make us feeling ‘safe’ in our learning to do and achieve what we expect to get us through

Reflect on their own practice as a process of habit.

Develop other methods of engaging in reflection, e.g. pairs, groups

Enhance our planning and personal development by using our Time & Energy more productively.

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To allow us to be aware of how & when we are being discriminatory
To make better use of the knowledge base developed by our own profession
As a prevention to repeating the same mistakes
Also preventing our skills from stagnating rather then developing.

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Benefits of Reflective Practice in delivering digital literacy

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Reflection enables us to:

Allows us to be non-judgemental
Be conscious of our potential for bias & discrimination.
Make the best use of the knowledge available.
Challenge & develop the existing professional knowledge base
Avoid past mistakes
Maximise our own opportunities for learning.

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