"I placed the receiver in its cradle and wept," he writes of learning that an indictment was unlikely.
In a column in The Columbus Dispatch announcing his change of view, Mr. Portman wrote of learning from his son Will, then a college freshman, that he is gay.
In 2005, Boris Johnson (now Mayor of London, then editor of The Spectator) wrote of learning about Seacole from his daughter's school pageant and speculated: "I find myself facing the grim possibility that it was my own education that was blinkered".
In her book, whose details were first reported by the San Antonio Express-News, Davis wrote of learning in 1997 when she was pregnant with her third child, a girl, that the fetus suffered from a condition that would lead to death.
While a writing component is often included with the purpose of providing formative assessment data to the instructor, the concept of "writing to learn" suggests that writing also helps increase students' comprehension of complex concepts (Rivard, 1994).
Rivard's conviction that "The area of writing to learn in science is ideal for developing collaborative projects in classroom inquiry" (p. 976) remains as true today as it was 18 yr ago.
This is analogous to the concept of "writing to learn," in which explaining the material in one's own words is considered part of the learning process, rather than a mere reporting of what has been learned previously (Balgopal and Wallace, 2009).
One way I have sought to open academics to informal learning and to de-center the evaluative objective of schooling is via the use of informal writing to learn in the classroom.
We will use the word 'feedback' for written observations entered on the form by the trainer, 'reflection' for trainees' written self-assessments and 'action plan' for written descriptions of learning goals, plans to achieve them and methods to evaluate the outcome.
The training was highly structured and based on a written set of learning objectives and activities for each session.
