Literature Review Introduction

Mood: d’oh
Now Playing: How sweet it is (James Taylor)
Yup, I’m still doing corrections. At the moment, I’m trying to get the literature introduction just right but I can’t seem to do it when I’m staring at the document, so I figured if I write it here it might be alright. Well, gonna start:
This chapter highlights and [...]

Determining Literature Review Structure

Mood:  chilling
Now Playing: Ishq Hua Kaise Hua (Ishq)
I’ve been looking at my literature review – and I just don’t feel the structure is right. I am redrafting it – but still trying to figure out how’s the best way of presenting the work because I got so many ideas and topics I’m discussing but don’t know whether [...]

Chapter 6 and Conclusion

Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: I’d be lying (Chris Cagle)
Well, I sent off my Chapter 6 (not the greatest but a chapter!) – and John sent me back some comments – he wanted more information on my conclusions – ok my conclusion was woefully thin – so really got to bump that up, but I think I’ll [...]

I just may have a theoretical framework!

Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Tapping of keys in an Open Plan Office
Well, I’m back from holiday and my one week bout with dengue fever (not pleasant!) – still feeling a bit lethargic from it (energy levels are really low). Anywho, just had a meeting with Doug and it has cleared up some stuff I was wrestling on. [...]

Distributed Cognition

Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: I Have Nothing (Whitney Houston)
I’ve been trying to get my ahead around three concepts: Vygotsky’s idea of psychological tools, activity theory and distributed cognition as I think they’ll all form part of my literature review.
Anyway, yesterday I was reading Gavriel Salomon’s paper on “No distribution without individuals’ cognition: a dynamic interractional view” which [...]

Theoretical Frameworks

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Lovenworth (Roy Rogers)
Topic: Analytical Frameworks
Well, during the CALRG conference I was trying to put together the theories I’m using and how they relate to my research. So, just going to type up my ramblings on this.
First thing is that although I’m looking at individual learning there is no negation of the fact [...]

Alternative theories

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Sway (Dean Martin)
Topic: Literature Review
So, went to the OpenLearn reading group session on action research and whilst I was there whatever they were saying got me thinking about the writing of my literature review. So, I think these are some of the theories I’ll have to think off when I’m writing up [...]

Theoretical Frameworks

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Ye Raat Bheegi Bheegi (Chori Chori)
Topic: Analytical Frameworks
So, had a meeting with Doug and James yesterday where we discussed theoretical frameworks – that’s still take sometime to get my head around it. Anyway, we were talking about constructivists theory which I barely have any clue of … but they seem to think [...]

Theoretical Frameworks

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Noisy workmen from the Jennie Lee Building
Topic: Analytical Frameworks
Well, yesterday I had supervision which was surprisingly quick (finishing in about 10-15 mins) – guess there wasn’t a lot going on at the moment since I just came back from vacation and spent all of last week writing the CAL paper (which wasn’t [...]

Maths-Computing analysis

Mood:  don’t ask
Now Playing: The Campfire Has Gone Out (Don Edwards)
Topic: Data Analysis
Well … still getting pretty frustrated looking for tasks that can measure conceptual knowledge, as most of them seem to love linking multiple representations particularly graphs!! Well, never mind that and this never-ending literature that seems to love high-school and primary school examples [...]