2. Learning Preference
At the beginning of the semester I learned that my learning
preference and I learned that I am fairly balanced in active
(1), visual (1), global (1), and then for intuitive I had a more
favorable learning preference with a score of 5. When I
started college i think that i might have been more of a
sequential learner but as time went on I think that I might
have adapted into a more intuitive learner. I like to think of
things in theories and try to think of different ways of doing
things. Since it is the end of class I have looked back at how
differently I see these learning preferences and I have come
to see that it really works better if you have a moderate
balance of these because it helps you gain a better grasp on
everything and gives you a different look into everything else
and how things can be done. I do think that learning about
your learning preferences can help you because for me I
never really thought about how I learned easier and what
things I had an easier time learning.
Christopher Heins
3. Learning Pathway
Since I feel like technology is very relevant in our everyday
society now I chose to be a learning sage since I don’t think
that I am the most technologically savvy person I wanted to
learn more about how technology can help us learn in school.
After taking this course I did learn more about technology and
how it can help us learn, for instance i never knew that our
ipods could be used for flash cards, and quiz applications. I
have an iphone and I had only mainly used it for
talking, games, and email. I just wish that I would have know
about these kind of things earlier because it could have
helped me in my earlier years in college and made things
easier instead of always having to buy flash cards and make
them. I did not change my pathway during the course of the
semester because I feel like you can never know too much
about one thing because there is always room for
improvement and learning.
Christopher Heins
4. Activities
Using social technology with mobile technology is what I
think helped me the most during this class. I had never
thought about using twitter, facebook, or other social
sites for learning, but after taking this class I found out
how useful how these could be. With most people
having ipods, ipads, tablets, and other mobile
technology devices you can keep in constant contact
with classmates and teachers if they are all using these
social sites, and it allows you to ask questions and help
answer other questions of other students. With the
social sites this had helped me gain a deeper
knowledge of how these could be used to benefit
learning instead of just using them to say what you are
doing for the day or what you are feeling at the moment.
Christopher Heins
5. Exploration
With the learning quest for Ipods and mp3’s it
was really helpful to learn about being able to put
flash cards on them so that it would be
convenient to use to whenever i was able to. For
me personally at this point in my college career
and because of my major i don’t think that it
really helps my personal learning style at this
time. With using flash cards on ipods, and mp3’s
it would’ve helped me in my language class for
memorization, but with me being an Asian
American Studies major I mainly deal with
theories, opinions and ideas, so I try to think
critically about things that don’t specifically have
a right or wrong answer.
Christopher Heins
6. Exploration Cont.
With the learning quest for ipad’s and
tablets, it once again doesn’t help me with my
particular learning style of being intuitive. The
only thing that I really found useful with this
technology was that it could be used for
sharing and viewing pdf’s with group
members. Since I am mainly an intuitive
learner it doesn’t really help me with my
learning preference, but I can see how it
helps the other learning preferences. It helps
groups communicate with the projects they
have easier since they are able to take them
on the go with them.
Christopher Heins
7. Exploration Cont.
With the microblogs quests I found these to
be more useful to my learning preference. I
found these useful because since I mainly
think about things critically and I learn better
by hearing other peoples ideas and trying to
expand on them this was the best thing for
me. With the microblogs I can communicate
with other people from the class through
twitter, or facebook. With these things we are
able to communicate outside the class and
hold discussions and even be able to answer
other classmates questions.
Christopher Heins
8. Synthesize
The ipad and tablets quest interested me the most as a
learning tool, because I never really thought about using them
for easier access and help for downloading and viewing pdf’s.
I had originally used my laptop for things like that, using the
ipad’s and tablets for that is easier because it allows you to
carry them and they are portable. The ipod and mp3 player
quest surprised me the most because before I had only
thought about using those things for music only, but after
learning that they could be used for stuff like flash cards I was
surprised that they were able to do things like that. I think that
all these learning quests are helpful to all learning
preferences, its just that not all quests will be all that relevant
to certain people because of the learning style they favor. In
the future I hope to further explore the ipod and mp3’s to
improve my learning because I plan on learning another
language again soon so it would be helpful to use them as
flashcards and find out what more they could help me with
since they are so portable.
Christopher Heins
9. Synthesize Cont.
The technology that helped me the most was the
ipad and tablet ones was because of my major
we do a lot of group work together and it was
useful to use my ipad for viewing files and pdf’s
or our work. I also found that in combination with
microblogs this was helpful because it allowed
our group to be in contact and be able to ask and
answer questions without us seeing each other in
person since we all can not meet up at the same
time. This was also very useful because mostly
everybody now has some sort of social microblog
so it is easy to keep up with friends and group
mates.
Christopher Heins
10. Future Uses
Some of the learning strategies I will continue
to use in the future are microblogs, because
they are becoming so popular and everybody
will be using them soon, so its just another
way for classmates and groups to
communicate with each other. With
microblogs it would also be useful when
learning at a job because you can see things
about the job from things like twitter and you
can also ask questions and get tips on how to
improve the job or the company itself from
the general public.
Christopher Heins
11. Future Uses Cont.
After this class I will continue to use ipod’s and ipads
because they are easily mobile and can be helpful with
viewing things or learning. For work these could be
useful because on them you can view pdf files and you
can also use them for email so it would be very
accessible for these things. I will most likely end up
using my ipad for non educational purposes because
most of what the ipad can use for learning purposes
can be done on ipod’s so I don’t have the need to use
my ipad for out of home purposes, and it will mainly be
for me to check email and play apps while I am at
home. There really aren’t any mobile technologies that I
won’t use outside of this class because I am open to
trying new technologies and I feel that everything is
helpful in one way or another.
Christopher Heins
