So much to learn, so little time...

Reflection of Learning Plans: Introduction, Learning Plan 1, and Learning Plan 2

My expectations of this class was to breeze through the summer with an easy class and hopefully learn a little something along the way. I was mistaken. Just in the first week I feel I have absorbed a lot of new information. For instance, if you would have asked me two weeks ago what a blog was, I would have had no idea what you were referring to. Now here I am posting my second entry to my very own blog. I have been a student at NTC for two years and have never used their Library site. I am greatly disappointed I did not know about it sooner, it is a great tool.
In the first learning plan, I honestly was overwhelmed with the thought of so many tasks. However, I found the work to be quite interesting. It is not often that a class will ask you your take on things and make you reflect so much of yourself. I found that there are many topics close to my heart that I will now have a chance to research. Being a mother, anything new I learn about raising my kids and how they develop into adults is so crucial to me. I enjoyed reviewing information on the maltreatment of children and reading other students ideas for research topics. I found it very helpful to read others opinions on not only my topic, but so many different topics as well. The review activities were a good review of the chapter.
As for the second learning plan, I really had to dig deep to understand the material and what it meant to me and my life. The ideas of heritability and environmentability were foreign to me. I never thought about how the two work together, rather than independently. The first reaction I had to the information was that I did not agree. I always thought children were the products of their parents and that alone. It did not matter your surroundings, you were predestined to be carbon copies of your parents. Thank goodness that is not true. The other concepts of chapter 2 were familiar to me and I did not find the material challenging.
I truly am impressed about how much this class makes me really think about things. I know I do not take enough time to evaluate the way I feel about certain things or even have an opinion about anything outside my everyday busy life. Although it is work, I enjoy the satisfaction from the effort that goes into my assignments and the knowledge gained.