Feedback

Dear All
Please remember feedback on drafts had a deadline almost a month ago. Most people have sent a draft of some kind to us. Overall your feedback is about structure, construction, and writing devices such as citation. feedback on one piece of writing can be used by you to question other pieces of writing. In other words if you received feedback on something on one draft check the same thing yourself on other drafts.

If you have any specific feedback questions or ideas you want to discuss and I am your Supervisor please call me. I will NOT prioritize responding to emails asking me if you can call, because I have now said this a number of times, it is in the handbooks, and it is on UniHub - you can call particularly during office hours. These last weeks of term are best used developing your confidence in your work, looking at the learning outcomes in the handbook and reflecting on your study this term in order to think about how your final submissions can be tweeked.

Adesola

Module Three Presentations May 6th & 7th

Please attend to support Module three students presenting their inquiry work.

Wednesday May 6^th – Presentation 10am -1pm, Presenters: Cathleen Limerick, Siobhan Richardson, Benny Tyas. (presenters need to be available in afternoon too) 

Thursday May 7^th – Presentation 10:00am – noon, Presenters: Emi Ichikawa, Thomas Holdsworth, Louise Elliott, Taylor Byrnes. 

Please comment below:

Community Skype (Breakfast Club) - Saturday April 25th

Community Skypes are general conversations between students - sharing ideas, what happening, new and checking-in with each other.

9:15am (time in London)

Please comment below to join:

Monday April 20th- Online session with a module 3 focus

The ways ideas can be communicated

Online session- Module 3 focus (ACI3633)

Monday the 20th of April- 6pm (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Books on-line reminder

Via UniHub

UniHub > My UniHub > My Study > Click on your module pages – this opens up My Learning > Click on a module

On the right hand side of the page you will see your personal etextbook

Click on that to go to your book

Directly via the Kortext website

Visit the Kortext website at https://app.kortext.com/login and enter your University email address and your Kortext password – your password was emailed to you when you first started at Middlesex University.

If you do not know your password, you can reset it:

1.       click "Forgot password"

2.       enter your Kortext username - this is your MDX email address -

3.       you will then have an email sent to your MDX email address

4.       follow the link contained in this email

5.       create a new password for Kortext

Via a Kortext app (and accessing the books offline)

There are Kortext apps available for Windows, Mac OS, iOS & Android and these are all available for free from the relevant app store for your device.

Download the relevant app and log-in using your credentials as above. The books can then downloaded to the app and accessed offline as well as online.

More info available at https://www.kortext.com/support-and-accessibility/

If you do not know your password then please refer to the instructions detailed above.

As well as accessing your Kortext content support is available for you 7 days a week. This can be accessed at eithersupport@kortext.com, filling out a Kortext enquiry via UniHelp or selecting the help icon on the Kortext website

Community Skype - April 9th

Community Skypes are general conversations between students - sharing ideas, what's happening, news and checking-in with each other.

7:15pm (time in London)

Please comment below to join:

Ethical thinking and Critical Reflection

We had people from each Module, so we traced across the Modules. We traced ethics and critical reflection across the development of the Modules.

Points we made were:

Critical reflection and ethics - we suggested ethical considerations are a 'sub-set' within critical thinking practices.

Ethical considerations - are not things to solve, they are things to reflect on -

But ethical procedures are things you can put into place to be aware of one's own privilege.

Ethical procedures can start to feel like tick box activity but they come from ethical considerations.

Ethics helps you see/notice what you have been 'taught' to think, and what you have been 'taught' to expect from those around you.

Look at the 'rules' of the MORE form and linking them to the actual ethical considerations discussed in your inquiry.

Reflecting on ones practice: looking at where you have made ethical procedure disisions such as 'I am not doing that/ or saying that because I know how much of a negative feeling I got when a teacher say it to me. These are procedural decisions.

Reflecting in the action of the Module you are in, but also reflection back on the Modules you've done (or heard about). 

We also traced the idea of 'not knowing' across the Module experiences. At first (in Module One) it can be almost frightening but as you learn about your self and practice you find that the more you know the more you be come aware of what you do not yet know. Perhaps education is about how we find ways of being comfortable with, and available to the known and the not known, the learnt and the to be learnt.

Please comment below...