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 [...]

Still fixing the literature!

Mood: crushed-out
Now Playing: The typing of people still here at this time of night!
James told me I had to build on my previous Chapter 1 on why intermediate steps was such an important thing to study. Now, that stumped me as I thought I put forth everything there was about why I should study intermediate steps [...]

Determining Literature Review Structure

Mood:  chilling
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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 [...]

Vygotsky and Self-explanations

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Gill’s mobile ringtone 
I think this literature review is starting to make some more sense but not entirely sure. I think I’m going to see how well I can link Vygotsky with self-explanations, some guy called Schwarz had done some work in this area so, I’m going to have a read of his papers tonight [...]

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 [...]

Restarting the literature review

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: If you leave me now (Chicago)
Right, I’ve decided to restart looking at my literature review – because the truth is I have no idea – and the weekend certainly didn’t make it any clearer. So, what I’m going to do without any pressure of looking at a word document is to write here [...]

Literature Review

Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: Little Old Wine Drinker, Me (Dean Martin)
Topic: Literature Review
Right, I’ve been trying to get my head around my literature review and have to say it has not worked! I have no idea what I’m writing or where to start. It seems like a bunch of words with no story with nothing really [...]

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 [...]

Grand Unified Theories (GUT)

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: When It Comes Down To It (Tasmin Archer)
Topic: Methodology
Well, I’m reading Diana Laurillard’s Conversational Framework for learning, I don’t think I’m likely to be using it (well who knows!) … because I do like my cognitive load theory, however, I couldn’t help noticing that in the Conversational Framework there is a period [...]