Here's an idea.
I'd like to see a 'review grade' recommends star system on all the resources we're invited to read, whether they are a must read or supplementary.
Whilst it is a skill to skim read something before giving it your all, I'd like to have a second, third or fourth opinion. Or just a fellow student indicating, 'don't bother,' or just as useful, 'don't miss this one out.'
Too often I have got stuck into a report only to find I wish I hadn't, either I'm not ready for it, or someone else says it better.
On the resources on 'Reflection' (H808) I feel I came in as an MA student on a topic that in one context I understood, but in relation to its use in academic study I did not. The 'heavier' text simply wound me up. Then I got the RLO from the University of Central London. Simple.
Something happened. What happened? So what? What next?
See, I can even remember it.
Though required for H807 I don't recall it being emboddied in the module. Were too many of us left to flounder? Or allowed to flounder?
Moon, Creme and all the rest embed this simple message in so much learning theory and psychology that the only thing they needed to communicate got lost. It assumes previous knowledge.
Go back to Kolb, rather than tacking on ifs and buts and provisos, or invent your own 'cycle of reflection.' I want to read Dewey. The book, hardback. From a second hand book shop. In my hand. With a former teacher's pecilled in notes.
I've come across a system that is simpler than any of the above.
You ask the question 'what is the problem?' over and over and over again.
By the time you have answered this six times you may be surprised at the truth it reveals, the real problem that on fixing resolves everything else.
Reflection that produces an outcome, or simply a dog chasing its tail?
REFERENCE
(in due course, I think I've drawn on the thinking of a dozen above).
Imagine if we had to reference everything we said in a conversation at a cocktail party? Or in the pub? I feel a sketch coming along. I wonder if I could get Mel Smith and Rhys Grifth-Jones back together to do one of their head to heads? You know, over the table, resting on their elbows, deliberating. But whenever they say something that requires a Harvard Style reference they must give it. Try that as they have first one, then a second or a third pint of Harvey's ale.