Campus Session: To know and not to know (yet)

We had a campus session on Friday. See comments below for links to posts by those who attended.
One point I thought was important to think about:

In the study of this course (BAPP) there are elements of the content and process which you will not 'know' straight away. Obviously you don't know them yet, the point of the course is to leave knowing more. They get revealed as you study and research and reflect. But as a Student at a University there are things you should to know. Sometimes people get these mixed up see below:

Things you need to know for sure:

• Your student number
• How to access your University email
• How much your fees are
• When the hand-in date for work is
• Where you hand things in (Turnit-in) 
• What a Skype call is
• Who your advisor is 

Things that will emerge through study:

• What you will write in the reflective essay you submit
• What your artifact or diagram will look like when you finish it
• What the literature on a subject says
• What you think about an idea you have not heard of before
• How to describe your practice.

Sometimes people reverse these: they feel concerned they don't know what they will write about in their final essay from week one (when they have 12 weeks of research and reflection between then and handing it in) but are ok they that are not sure how to get to their University email!

The workings of the university - you should feel clear about and if you don't ask for direct help on getting it clear.

The action of learning about new ideas and new things can be foggy and this is ok at points as you work.

What are your thoughts....

Campus Session on Friday (today) is C216A

Campus session is 1pm to 4pm 

Twilight Tuesday Discussion Group

This Tuesday, February 26th, we have Twilight Tuesday Discussion Skype sessions. Every Module is welcome. This is a great time to share ideas and talk to other members of the learning community.

These will be at:

7am (time in London)

or

9pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend and share relevant thinking/doing you have been mulling, reflecting on.

Being a part of Networks of Understanding and learning: blogging and discussion

In this post I am thinking/feeling about the network of learning that is the BAPP learning community and how you find yourSelf in the network. It mirrors other networks - if you see 'networks' as a method of understanding the world.  In the new Module One handbooks (ACI3611) we discuss the networked professional and suggest looking at some videos. Below is one we suggest watching. (I thought it would be good to see for the Module Threes who did not have the new Module One handbooks in Module One.) I feel the video highlights how the blogs are a tool that help build the structure of our BAPP Learning Network / Networked understanding. This is a network you are part of.

On this course, we draw heavily from the theoretical concept of Connectivism developed differently by Steven Downes and George Siemens. Below Steven Downes talks about networks in terms that help explain why blogs and discussion groups are a part of the network of learning in BAPP ACI

In October I posted a short video of George Siemens talking about Connectivism in a way that explains why blogs are so useful in BAPP - do go back on my blog and have a look. You can use the tags or dates at the side of my blog to find the post. 

Here is a video of Steven Downes talking about networks. The blogs are a part of the network of learning we are creating together. He talks about how there is  a sense of not being told what to do but that we are all contributing. This is an important principle in BAPP ACI. you can't be made to participate - it's your BA but together we can create the place where learning can happen and that is part of the work you have to do for yourself in your professional work and in your study - you have to believe (in yourself, in each other, in the idea of learning, in the idea of your art practice, in whatever it is that finds you here), believe enough to just get on with it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obokyuibtec&t=0s&list=PL521ADEA73AB9F2F3&index=94

Please comment on what you are thinking/feeling of this post below. It would be interesting to discuss some of the video content in our Twilight Tuesday Skype Discussion Group on February 26th or at the campus session tomorrow*. 
(*The sign-up for Friday and Tuesday are on a 'Session Reminder Post'-NOT this post) 

Visit someones blog today and exchange an idea or conversation - visit someone's blog in the BAPP community you have not visited much before - explore.
Adesola

Campus session

This Friday February 22nd, we have a Hendon Campus Session from 1pm to 4pm.
Comment below to indicate if you will attend. 

Tuesday Skypes - Research terms

Just like any technique there are words for the things we do. When we learn a technique like playing music or tap dancing there is a vocabulary of words we learn. In research there is too. Learning these words help us understand a dimension of the subject. In todays skype we talked about the words
artefact, triangulation, ethnography, paradigm, discourse, reflexive.

I said that I would post a video where the word 'paradigm' is used, as way to continue to look at what to means.

Making notes on your glossary at the back of the handbooks is really useful (and important).
People in the conversation are also writing blog posts on the conversation. 

Skype session: Research terms - what are you doing?

This Tuesday February 12th we have Skype sessions with a Module Three [ACI 3633] focus. Anybody from any Module is welcome but we will be talking about ideas and learning highlighted in Module Three activity.

We will be discussing: research terms- what are you doing?

These will be at:

12:30pm (time in London)

or

5pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend and share relevant thinking/doing you have been mulling, reflecting on.

Mapping to build understanding - Holidays and Maps

In skype discussions to day we talked about 'Research as mapping to build understanding'

We talked about three different kinds of research goals

Mapping (shorter period of time) the aim is to better understand something.

Critique (medium period of time) provide a critique of a phenomenon or field after you better understand it.

Social change (longer period of time) provide clear suggestions or praxis for change after you have better understood it and critiqued elements of it.

In the 12 weeks of Module Three and at BA level you are looking to map - to better understand something by knowing the elements and routes through and within it.

(Qualitative Research for Physical Culture) by Pirkko Marcela & Michael Silk.


In Module Three you are mapping to better understand the field of your inquiry.

In Module Two you have another layer of mapping - mapping how to inquire in to the field (looking at research methods for your field of interest.

In Module One you are mapping your practice (by doing your diagram and essay)


Module Two mapping research methods:
The inquiry in Module Three is like a journey into your inquiry topic. Like going on holiday to some where you need to plan the journey. Module Two is the planning the journey.

Here are some things to think about:
If you plan too specifically we are going to 12 West Manor street, Paris, France. That is all you will find. Just like if your inquiry is so specific will only notice and find what you set out to look for. Instead set out to go to Paris (aware 12 west Manor Street might be a place you visit while there).

Then how are you getting there?
Driving main roads,
By train
Bicycle holiday
Are you in a hotel or tent.
You have to look into these things and think about what would work best for the type of holiday you are planning.

Just like how are you getting there in your inquiry
Interview
Observations
Participants
workshops
libraries
You have to look into these and think about what would work best for the analysis you are planning.

Please read other peoples blog post on this and comment.

Skype session: Seeing your practice, seeing yourself

This Monday February 11th we have Skype sessions with a Module One [ACI3611] focus. Anybody from any Module is welcome but we will be talking about ideas and learning highlighted in Module One activity.

We will be discussing: seeing your practice, seeing yourself

These will be at:

12:30pm (time in London)

or

5pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend and share relevant thinking/doing you have been mulling, reflecting on.

Skype Session: Research as mapping to build understanding

This Thursday February 7th we have Skype sessions with a Module Two [ACI3622] focus. Anybody from any Module is welcome but we will be talking about ideas and learning highlighted in Module One activity.

We will be discussing: Research as mapping to build understanding

These will be at:

12:30 (time on London)
or 
5pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend and share relevant thinking/doing you have been mulling, reflecting on.