### Title: Understanding Learning Characteristics and Crafting Persuasive Essays
**Synopsis:**
Today’s lesson focused on reinforcing the concept of learning characteristics and their role in creating persuasive essays. The objective was to ensure students could differentiate between good and bad learning characteristics and apply this understanding to their upcoming assignments, specifically in the context of comparing online and traditional learning.
### Attendance:
– 2 students mentioned absent: Tamara Mireira and Aigrim.
### Topics Covered:
1. **Review of Learning Characteristics:**
– Emphasis on clarity regarding learning characteristics discussed in the previous class.
– Importance of avoiding bad learning characteristics.
2. **Homework Review:**
– Examination of the persuasive essay assignment on e-course.
– Discussion on persuasion and the necessity of comparison in essays.
3. **Concept of Reviews:**
– Understanding reviews as a form of persuasive essays.
– Examples of reviews for different services and products.
4. **Defining Learning Characteristics:**
– Universal qualities contributing to effective learning experiences.
– Applicability to any educational setting, online or traditional.
5. **Brainstorming Learning Characteristics:**
– Discussion on the pros and cons of online and traditional learning.
– Phrasing characteristics as “should” statements.
6. **Differentiating Good vs. Bad Learning Characteristics:**
– Analysis and correction of poorly defined learning characteristics.
– Ensuring characteristics are universal and applicable to all learning environments.
7. **Peer Review Activity:**
– Students paired up to review and critique each other’s learning characteristics.
### Actionable Items:
– **Essay Preparation:**
– Students need to think up eight universal learning characteristics for Monday’s class.
– Emphasize characteristics should be about the learning experience, not the student.
– **Classroom Environment:**
– Address the room’s temperature and potential distractions that may impact learning.
### Homework:
– Complete the persuasive essay assignment by Monday.
– Develop eight universal learning characteristics for use in the essay.