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Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:46:02 +0000

Artefact-Reflection_Cai-ZhangDownload

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:45:48 +0000

The final artefact is a booklet and a AR camera filter

The booklet can be viewed here.password: 123Sh1t

It is best viewed on mobile browser.

This is a demo video of the filter. The filter is part of the […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:39:42 +0000

Two thing I learnt from the text:

Bhagat and O’Neill (2011a) discuss how the concept of cultural capital is pervasive in art education within widening participation ‘where the disciplines of Art and Design as […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:55:30 +0000

Discuss two things you learnt from the text

The key things are constructed intergroup discussion between conflicted groups improve understanding and empathy. Intersectionality approaches intergroup encounters […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:11:00 +0000

My tutorial with Jhinuk really helped to clarify

1500 words reflection is about the artefact rather than on the whole learning on this unitfocus on why purpose of the artefact, how it can be used, why it can […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:05:49 +0000

Josephine Kwhali discusses ‘unconscious bias’. Part of the UCU black members’ standing committee oral history project

Notes

get out of the jail- unconscious excuses intelligent people and institution from […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:10:00 +0000

Situated in my practice, I want to propose a pdf containing meme of abuse I received as a Hourly paid lecturer. This collection is then minted as an NFT to gain royalty for any future circulations […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:10:27 +0000

How could you apply the resources to your own teaching practice?

I already refer this in my teaching. I cite it often both as a general resource as well as use specific blogs and zines to support lectures I […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 26 May 2021 14:43:04 +0000

The lecture gives Appiah’s ontological choices on religion. Fundamentalist mentality seems to be the greatest obstruction to a robust practice of religion. Identity is not a religion, though it share the […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 26 May 2021 13:34:57 +0000

Discuss two things you learnt from the text and one question/provocationyou have about the text.

In this paper, it mentioned French ‘laicite’, a form of secularism that seeks to maintain s republican national […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 26 May 2021 13:03:27 +0000

Link: https://religiousliteracy.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

How could you apply the resources to your own teaching practice?

I love OOMK Manifesto. I already use manifesto writing to help postgraduate students who […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 09 May 2021 13:58:15 +0000

What do you take from the two pieces?We all occupy a plurality of otherness. We discover this otherness through violence often, which fuels self hate to assimilate to the party that rejects us. We all want to […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 09 May 2021 13:19:37 +0000

What do you take from this video?

Burn-out nearly took my life in 2016. I am a product of a system (regardless of geographical culture and politics) of relentless effort, which means exponential […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 09 May 2021 12:43:35 +0000

What did you take from the case study?Real learning doesn’t happen in the classroom but in the reflective space between classes. Staying with the trouble is the most honourable thing to do, whether racism or […]

Cai Zhang commented on the post, Topic 1 - Disability: A discussion of the readings, on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog

Tue, 04 May 2021 11:00:22 +0000

I thought perhaps there is a parallel could be made between Kim and Barokka’s work in this way. Kim’s work has dignity because she doesn’t see her disability from a deficit perspective. Similarly, we can say […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:14:20 +0000

How could you apply the resources to your own teaching practice?

Disability TOR is a key resource that provides the epistemological foundation to understand disability through a political lens. Both the […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:53:44 +0000

Intersectionality is a noun

1. the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:04:14 +0000

meganleanne44 (2015) Positionality Statements. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpcIVzGYhVs (Accessed: 9 April 2021).

What are the central concerns of critical pedagogy?

Critical pedagogy is th […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:54:39 +0000

meganleanne44 (2015) Positionality Statements. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpcIVzGYhVs(Accessed: 9 April 2021).

Positonality is a researchers’ world view on their research topic

How the r […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:25 +0000

England, K. V. L. (1994) ‘Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗’ In: The Professional Geographer 46 (1) pp.241–257.

p241

the acceptance of the socially constructed and situa […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:42:01 +0000

 Anne M. Foreman, Penelope Allison, Michelle Poland, B. Jean Meade, Oliver Wirth. (2019) Employee Attitudes about the Impact of Visitation Dogs on a College Campus. Anthrozoös 32:1, pages 35-50.

According to […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:51:43 +0000

Saari, M. (2020) “Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching against Speciesism,” Educational Studies, pp. 95–99. doi: 10.1080/00131946.2019.1660660.

p95

Critical animal studi […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:46:21 +0000

Elo, M.(2018), Ineffable Disposition. Schwab. M (Ed.) Transpositions, Aesthetico-epistemic operators in artist research, Leven University Press
(p281-293)

Learnings

transposition embueded within the […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:47:40 +0000

Cahnmann-Taylor, M. and Siegemund, R. (eds) (2008) ‘Arts-based research in education, foudnations of practice’, in. New York: Routledge, pp. 3–13.
##Notes

Chpt 1

*p3

postmodern approaches to educa […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:18:14 +0000

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:13:46 +0000

C.McEwen, and F. Trede, Developing a critical professional identity, J. Higgs et al. (Eds), Practice-based education: perspectives and strategies, Sense Publisher, p27-40

p27

In using the term critical […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:30:14 +0000

Lorrice Douglas

Notes

-good experience of residency: passing through
-tolerance
-holiday at home
-observing- outward -looking yet isolationist
-pastoral
-studio: place of contemplation (what it is for […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:59:55 +0000

Below are the average carbon footprints of different emails:

An average spam email: 0.3 g CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent)

A standard email: 4 g CO2e

An email with “long and tiresome attachments”: 50 g C […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:34:48 +0000

Learning:

I am not at all surprised by the issues and insights highlighted
in this article. It is very painful to read these. It is even more painful to
watch Chinese students suffer systematically. Even […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:43:41 +0000

The carbon footprint of an email

In Britain alone unnecessary email create 24
homes every year creates nearly 24,000 tons of carbon every year

This research is done by energy company called OVO
on […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:38:06 +0000

P109

email correspondence, however, often produce a sense of ‘telepresence’–
as derived from virtual reality, describing the sensation of feeling in a
different place or time afforded by certain tec […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 12:43:36 +0000

Nigel Carrington, the Vice Chancellor of University of the Arts London reflected on the shortcomings of the Government’s narrow approach to measuring value in higher education in Times Higher Education t […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:50:55 +0000

A little rant from John Brinnamoor (not real name) expresses his general dismay towards university administration.It tells me a lot about how email is part of the negative feelings.

Sitting in the Delta […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sun, 08 Dec 2019 17:15:07 +0000

H. Beetham and R. Sharpe(Ed.) (2007), rethinking pedagogy for a digital age, Taylor &Francis Ltd, Avaliable at: [ https://www.dawsonera.com/abstract/9780203961681 ] [accessed 5 December 2019]

Learning

The […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:25:59 +0000

E. Varonis and M. Varonis, Deconstructing candy crush: what instructional design can learn from game design, Technology facilitated teaching and learning, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015. Available at : […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:06:40 +0000

I suspect depends what your day job is at UAL, your ideas of ‘digital gap’ would differ very differently to the person sitting next to you.

This news item linked above focuses on archive. One of the things […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:35:22 +0000

Learning

Misusing email really cost. It is not merely a
communication issue it is also a technical issue

because universities in the billions.

If we are also continuing emails that are irrelevant
to […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:18:31 +0000

London School of Economics academics outraged by proposed China programme _ Financial TimesDownload

It took me days to process this particular story. I agree that we should be most suspicious of powers like […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:47:05 +0000

Visual MethodologiesDownload

Hart,T. (2009) Visual Methodologies, Visual Anthropology, 22:1, 77-79, DOI: 10.1080/08949460802341985 [Accessed 16 November 2019]

Learning:

Good for understanding methodology […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:45:16 +0000

Some basic tools for the collection of informationDownload

Interviews (structured, semi-structured and ?)

‘Can be carried out with one person at a time (individual interviews) or groups of people. They c […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:29:50 +0000

Sensing Place: Doing Ethnography

Workshop PdfDownload

Ethnography is a qualitative research methodology that uses observational methods to study a particular setting and group of people.

The use of e […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:10:24 +0000

Smith, J. and Noble, H. (2014). Bias in research. Evidence Based Nursing, 17(4), pp.100-101.

Bias is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: ‘an inclination or prejudice for or against one person or g […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:40:33 +0000

Reading Notes: George-Walker and Keefe, 2010

George‐Walker, L.
and Keeffe, M. (2010). Self‐determined blended learning: a case study of
blended learning design. Higher Education Research & Deve […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:34:52 +0000

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:58:51 +0000

Though my SIP projects do not concern the general public as participants of the study. The research conducted below by Futurelearn is a very useful way to profile learners.

I am beginning to think about how to […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:15:27 +0000

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:00:28 +0000

Davis, B.H., & Resta, V.K. (2002). Online collaboration: Supporting novice teachers as researchers.Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 10(1), 101–117

Davis and Resta (2002)sought to determine how a […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:24:57 +0000

“Schools has long been about print, word on pages or lectures sound like print. We give students more text and when they do no understand them we give them more text. If they do understand a word, we give them […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:54:08 +0000

ChanMin Kim (2008) Using email to enable e3 (effective, efficient, andengaging) learning, Distance Education, 29:2, 187-198, DOI: 10.1080/01587910802154988

Using email to enable e3 (effective, efficient, […]

Cai Zhang wrote a new post on the site MA Academic Practice _Cai Zhang

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:02:19 +0000

Since June 2019, I have been applying associate lecturer jobs in England.

I applied 12 jobs so far and counting. All the jobs are in Higher Education. I want to share some thoughts and reflections.

London […]