Communicating your ideas

 Last Wednesday we had a skype session with a module three focus. 

Adesola and I offered an example of communicating ideas with me presenting some of my current research and Adesola posing questions to me to further my articulation of the ideas I was sharing.  This is the kind of dialogue we encourage you to have with each other in our discussion groups (last one this term is this coming Sunday at 8pm - UK). The process for me of communicating the ideas of my research enabled me to offer a context to the research as a whole, identify my intentions and the questions driving the research and it allowed me to consolidate my ideas to what I felt was key to express (so not telling you everything I'd done in my research). The process of Adesola's questioning then pushed me to define areas of clarity, terms I was using and to (re)consider why and their relevance, to think aloud some of the areas of tension and to make connections in this process between different aspects of my research.

In each module of the programme you are required to communicate your ideas in different ways.We would really encourage you to pair up and try this as an 'in-conversation' moment with each other.

In Module One, you are using a theoretical framework of Reflection through which to evaluate and communicate your prior learning experiences

Module Two is asking you to communicate how you intend to approach and undertake a research inquiry in relation to your professional practice and how will you communicate your intentions to others (ethics).

In Module three you are asked to communicate the journey of your inquiry process having undertaken it, in three distinct ways, through a critical review (formal academic essay), by sharing with the MAPP community through an oral presentation and through the production of a professional artefact.

Each time you are communicating your ideas in relation to your own experiences in relationship with what you have learned from and acknowledged through others experiences (literature and other data gathered) and you are commenting on how this process has continued to develop, perhaps shift some of your own ideas. Be open to share, to listen, to exhange and be changed by the process.