Week 3 Reflection

This week in physics a lot of progress was made for me personally. I feel as if my level of understanding of the thought process is improving and I'm starting to focus more on the process of a situation rather than the final answer. This is the first class I've had that is based upon pysical experiences, so I still have to get used to it, but I'm learning information, not just memorizing it. For example, I class each group drew graphs of position (m) vs. time (s), exchanged boards, and physically walked the direction of the movements using yard sticks on the ground representing the graph. There were no notes taken and a lecture wasn't present; the whole exercise was to discover and learn by ourselves, with of course assistance from our teacher.

It was announced on Monday that we were to have an assessment the Friday of this week. I'm not going to lie, at first I was a bit apprehensive about it because there weren't many notes to study and I couldn't just memorize information in order to do well on the test. Physics is a skill-based subject and that's exactly how the assessment went. Memorization was not key to do well on this test; to do well on the test you had to be present and involved in class. I personally am used to going home and over-studying many nights before the assessment, but for this class I found myself reviewing the processes we discovered in class and not much else could be done. This was some what relieving for me, but also a bit scary.

A huge aspect of this class that has helped me is the use of Google Drive. As long as I have my phone I can have all of the class documents, worksheets, and keys with me. This is so incredibly helpful. In preparation for the assessment, I re-did and worksheet, which was posted on Google Drive for our use, and was able to check it and learn from the key posted as well. Because we don't have written homework for this class, there weren't any written worksheets I could study, so this source helped a ton in preparing.

This class is an opportunity to not only learn, but to grow.
Physics 2012 - Challenge Accepted.