I've just come across this in http://mdx.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=566 and I can't understand what it means in practice.
Bitesize step 4
"It may be that you develop AOL’s at two different levels of learning, for example at levels 6 and 7. It is possible to gain up to 30 credits at Level 6, the other 40 must be at Level 7. Alternatively, all of your claim may be at Level 7"
Could anyone shed any light on it? I'm not sure how you would write an AOL to claim at Level 6 as opposed to one that you would be claiming for at Level 7? Is it perhaps about any AOL's based on any formal learning you have done at these levels? or is it that, we need to seek advice and then decide how much an AOL is 'worth'?
I've been experimenting with not allowing myself to skip ahead and look at guidance on upcoming tasks until I've feel I've made a major attempt at tackling current activities. The draw back to this, I've been finding, is that sometimes the answers are waiting to be found just around the corner!
Sunday is the day when I have all day, well at least a few solid hours, to really try and get some momentum going for my Module 1 work. But I seem to be bogged down in the detail and can't seem to get warmed up to tackle the bigger tasks requiring focused, connected thinking. It feels as if the 'bitty' details are dominating my thoughts rather then working with a wide perspective where I can see how to connect all the dots. Do others feel that they touch on something but the thought is out of focus and then it slips away without becoming defined or concrete?
I came across the idea of mentally warming up to study, in one of the study skills handbooks and like it! It's such a given part of practice in dance, there's no way I could skip some gentle mobilising and stretching whilst mentally running through my class before I teach and yet I expect to somehow launch into some insightful and well structured writing completely 'cold'. On that note I'm going to try reading some of Gillie Bolton's book on Reflective Practice, thanks Amber for mentioning it in your blog, and see how that effects my study outcomes as a whole today.
