Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing

Chapter 5. ACTIVITIES FOR PHASE 2: Reflective and Observational Learners

As was done in Chapter Three for verbal and auditory learners, in this chapter we present twenty-five learning activities for reflective and observational learners in Phase 2 of the Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (R2D2) model. All of these ideas are intended to offer opportunities for learner reflection and observation, but they may touch on the learning preferences of the other phases as well. In fact, given that reflection is useful at nearly any moment of the learning process, many of these activities have high overlap with the other phases of the model—in particular, with Phase 1. As stated in Chapter Three, the scales provided below each activity are highly ...