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  2. amiddlet50

    Ritual in the learning environment

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    | acquiescence, active learning, affinity spaces, agency, being, belonging, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, diversity, doing, habit, identity, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, liminality, non-formal learning, place, Relationships, ritual, routine, studio, Studio and Studio-based Learning, studio for all, Syndicated
    April 6, 2022
    In this post I explore what is meant by ritual in relation to the teaching and learning experience and, as we reset our post-pandemic classrooms, why we should care. Given that there is little obligation to care, beyond a notion … Continue reading ?
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    Transparency, turbulence, ambiguity and uncertainty in #activelearning

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    | #learning, active learning, agency, art, becoming, being, belonging, challenge, clarity, co-creation, co-operation, co-operative learning, communities of practice, connecting, creativity, doing, embodiment, experience, experiential learning, formal learning, identity, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, motivation, non-formal learning, ontology, place, placemaking, Presence, scaffolding, self-efficacy, skills, space, studio, studio for all, Syndicated, Teaching, technique, Technology, tutoring
    August 30, 2021
    “One student’s safe uncertainty is another student’s chaotic nightmare.” (Orr & Shreeve, 2018) Based on research I conducted with others into student satisfaction of learning (Heaton et al., 2015), being clear with students about what is expected of them has … Continue reading ?
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    Photopedagogy and photovoice

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    | Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, agency, audio, audio-enhanced learning, belonging, BYOD4L, capture, co-production, community, connectivity, creativity, Digital Placemaking, learner engagement, learner gatherer, learning ecologies, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, location, Media-enhanced learning, mobile learning, photo elicitation, photograph, photography, photomontage, photopedagogy, photovoice, place, portfolio, screen-based learning, Smart Learning & BYOD, smartphone, social media for learning, Syndicated, ubiquitous technolous, user producer
    August 14, 2021
    Loopmans et al. (2012) observe that photographs incite public debate about place and community. When that public context is the university course and where there is a desire for learning engagement and community building, how can photography empower the learner? … Continue reading ?
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    Between states: metaxis, connectedness and fluency

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    | active learning, agency, becoming, being, belonging, boundary crossing, connecting, connectivism, embodiment, engagement, experience, experiential learning, flow, fluency, flux, formal learning, hybrid learning space, hybridity, informal learning, interactivity, interstices, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, liminality, metaxis, networked learning, ontology, permeability, place, placemaking, polycontextuality, Presence, Relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, social, space, Syndicated, tethering, third place, Third Space
    March 13, 2021
    Learning, for me, often describes a state of being between. This betweenness may refer to ideas, knowledge and understanding, modalities, or spaces. In this post I examine the nuances of terminology used to describe these states; terminology that goes beyond … Continue reading ?
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    Lifewide learning domains: rich intersections or contested spaces

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    | ambiguity, Assessment, belonging, boundary crossing, connections, Digital Placemaking, domains, education, experiential learning, family, friendship, incidental learning, intersections, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, lifewide learning, lockdown, map, mapping, non-formal learning, ontology, pandemic, Personal & Professional Development Planning, place, polycontextuality, psychogeography, Reflection, Scholarship and Research, social media for learning, socialisation, space, Syndicated, third place, Third Space, walking
    February 6, 2021
    I noted in my previous post on mapping our learning that I would be engaging in the collaborative inquiry ‘Towards a Better Understanding of Our Own Learning Lives’ led by Norman Jackson, Rob Ward and Jenny Willis. I have just about … Continue reading ?
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    Revisting the 5Cs to discover value for different times

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    | active learning, belonging, BYOD, BYOD4L, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, Communication, connectivism, creativity, curation, ecology, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, MELSIG, place, Smart Learning & BYOD, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
    January 16, 2021
    I have had an immense feeling of warmth and solidarity this evening as good thoughts and memories have been triggered by Sheila’s post on How Sheila Sees It ‘Bring your own device for learning or bringing learning to your device?’ … Continue reading ?
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    Learning Spaces Iceberg

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    | active learning, adjacent space, agency, becoming, being, belonging, blended learning, connecting, connectivism, Digital Placemaking, digital space, doing, experiential learning, formal learning, friendship, hubs, hybrid learning space, infographic, informal learning, Learning Space and Place, liminality, material space, Media-enhanced learning, non-formal learning, ontology, placemaking, Smart Learning & BYOD, social media for learning, social spaces, spatial literacy, Syndicated, Third Space, timetabling, twalk, zones
    October 27, 2020
    This infographic represents the complexity of learning space discourse and points to the experiential value of the ‘hidden depths’ where the space is least understood because it is least represented and least visible – who are the advocates for the … Continue reading ?
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  9. amiddlet50

    Being part of something – having a sense of presence #activelearning

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    | active learning, agency, authentic learning, being, belonging, co-operation, community, Digital Placemaking, embodiment, enactment, feedback, identity, learner engagement, learning culture, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, Presence, Reflection, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated, teacher presence
    October 24, 2020
    The idea of ‘being’ is about presence and is central to an active learning philosophy. It reflects two things: personal identity and social presence in the learning environment. Lehman and Conceicao (2010) describe this as ‘being there’ and ‘being together’. … Continue reading ?
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    The problem with communities… a consideration of alternatives

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    | active learning, affinity spaces, assemblage theory, belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, communities of practice, creativity, Digital Placemaking, ecology, learner engagement, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, networked authorship, networked learning, Networking, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated
    October 3, 2020
    Why do I explore ideas like being, belonging and becoming in relation to networks, but I hardly talk about communities any more? In this post I will look at why networks and affinity spaces more than communities have come to … Continue reading ?
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  12. amiddlet50

    Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

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    | active learning, belonging, Body Language, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, confrontation, conversation, empathy, incidental learning, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, listening skills, non-formal learning, personal space, Serendipity, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, walking
    January 25, 2020
    Learning walks are valuable conversational spaces. They tend to be non-confrontational and, for me, epitomise co-operative learning. Not only do they feel familiar spaces exemplifying a networked paradigm as people move naturally between small groups through the course of semi-structured … Continue reading →
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  13. amiddlet50

    Learning Spaces twilight walk on #ActiveLearning on Thursday – join us! #SpaceTwalk2020 #ALN

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    | active learning, belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, D3BC, identity, learning space, learning walk, polycontextuality, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, walk, walking, walkshop
    January 14, 2020
    This is a reminder that this Thursday from 4pm-6pm (UK) our Active Learning Network at Anglia Ruskin University is conducting a learning space walk (#SpaceTwalk2020) and we encourage you to join us from wherever you are – walking in parallel … Continue reading →
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  15. amiddlet50

    Space Walk #Twalk #ALN #activelearning

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    | active learning, becoming, being, belonging, BYOD, connecting, connectivism, D3BC, Digital Placemaking, doing, identity, learner engagement, learning space, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk
    December 19, 2019
    Active Learning Network – Space Walk 16 January 2020, 16:00 – 18:00 GMT Our Active Learning Network satellite group will be taking part in a Space Walk at Anglia Ruskin University and we hope others in the sector will join … Continue reading →
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  16. amiddlet50

    Decolonising the active curriculum #activelearning

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    | active learning, activity design, BAME, belonging, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, decolonisation, Design Thinking, differentiation, diversity, equity, experiential learning, hidden curriculum, inclusivity, learner engagement, learning ecology, personalisation, PhD, self-direction, stimuli, stimulus, studio, Syndicated, universal design
    October 14, 2019
    This post considers the need to decolonise the active curriculum. It follows on from ideas considered in the previous post on embodiment which concluded that advocates and practitioners of active learning must look deeply at the meaning of being student-centred. … Continue reading →
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  17. amiddlet50

    Embodiment – physicality and presence in #activelearning

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    | active learning, agency, assemblage theory, audio feedback, belonging, blended learning, care, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, communities of practice, conversation, critical pedagogy, ecology, experience, experiential learning, hapitics, identity, inclusivity, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, networked learning, ontology, People, PhD, physicality, place, placemaking, polycontextuality, Presence, psychology, Reflection, Relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, smart devices, smart learning, social theory, space, storytelling, studio, studio for all, Syndicated, Technology, Third Space, twalk, voice
    October 14, 2019
    Imagine active learning. What comes to mind for me is people, together, finding value and common purpose in each other. ‘People’ is a significant word in this description. It’s not an abstract notion of ‘learner’, it is a real, humanistic … Continue reading →
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  18. amiddlet50

    Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, agency, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, context, conversation, creativity, Digital Placemaking, diversity, employability, exchange, identity, improvisation, inclusivity, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, negotiation, openness, parity, PhD, place, Possibilities, selfregulation, Serendipity, social construction, social media for learning, storytelling, studio-based learning, Syndicated, timeliness, trust, walking
    October 3, 2019
    In an earlier post I referred to Learning Walks as conversational learning spaces. As such, they exemplify active learning spaces. The focus on conversation as a dimension of active learning is at the heart of the rationale for advocacy for … Continue reading →
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  19. amiddlet50

    Wrecking it with Brexit

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, assemblage theory, belonging, Brexit, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, conference, connectivity, ecology, employability, gamification, globalisation, icebreaker, intercultural learning, interdisciplinary learning, interprofessionalism, learner engagement, learning space, Lego Serious Play, LSP, open learning, populism, research, scholarship, Syndicated
    September 22, 2019
    I’m sitting in a café on La Rambla in Barcelona following a couple of days participating in an international learning spaces summit in Barcelona (#ILS2019). (nb. I use ‘participating’ not ‘attending’) We are getting really close to Brexit now and … Continue reading →
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  20. amiddlet50

    Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones

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    | active learning, actor-network theory, affective domain, affordances, ANT, assemblage theory, atmospheres, attention, audio, belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, digital voices, emotional intelligence, games development, gamification, headphones, immersive learning space, isolation, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, polycontextual bridging, polycontextuality, Possibilities, psychosocial, research, social media for learning, sound space, spatial literacy, spheres, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    September 8, 2019
    Space, including learning space, can be thought of as ‘spheres’ and ‘atmospheres’. Ash (2016) looks at the implications of this for studio studies. For me and my own interest in studio-based learning and my longstanding interest in the ‘digital voice’ … Continue reading →
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  21. amiddlet50

    Teaching ‘whole people’ holistically – understanding co-operative learning

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    | active learning, association, belonging, co-operative learning, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, employability, experiential learning, graduate capitals, learner engagement, learning space, Personal & Professional Development Planning, space, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    August 20, 2019
    Andresen, Boud and Choen (2000) set out criteria for experience-based learning. The goal of experience-based learning involves something personally significant or meaningful to the students; Students should be personally engaged; Reflective thought and opportunities for students to write or discuss … Continue reading →
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  22. amiddlet50

    Blogging as a site of embodiment, co-production and enculturation

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    | ANT, assemblage theory, belonging, blogging, challenge, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, components, creativity, critical ontology, distributed cognition, embodiment, hybrid learning studio, learning space, ontology, othering, paradox, podcasting, Possibilities, site, situated learning, social media for learning, sociomateriality, studio, studio for all, studio-based learning, Support, Syndicated, ZPD
    August 10, 2019
    In this post I look at blogging as a studio space by reflecting on how and why I blog. A study of studio is a study of embodiment: the “embodied occupational engagement in constructing meaning [and how] the occupations in … Continue reading →
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    Product – co-production vs commodification as a site of learning

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    | active learning, agency, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaboration, commodification, communities of practice, employability, engagement, experiential learning, learner engagement, learning ecology, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    July 27, 2019
    Yesterday, I spent much of my time in meetings: one appraisal, one research-related, one project-related, and one a planning meeting. Coincidently, each of those four meetings required me to remind myself that an education is not, “A thing that can … Continue reading →
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  26. amiddlet50

    Active co-operativism for active learning

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    | active co-operativism, active learning, actor-network theory, assemblage theory, belonging, BYOD, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, creativity, dispositions, distributed cognition, employability, ethos, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, mutuality, peer co-operation, peer learning, skills, Syndicated
    April 19, 2019
    This is a second post looking at the student’s role and the academic skills and dispositions needed for success in the active classroom. The first looked at active listening. Here, I suggest active co-operativism is an attitude and an ethos … Continue reading →
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  27. amiddlet50

    Active listening for active learning

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    | #learning, active learning, Applied Learning, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, conversation, engagement, feedback, interactivity, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, Listening, People, Presence, Reflection, Relationships, situated learning, skills, social, Syndicated, Teaching, trust, twalk, walk, walking
    April 19, 2019
    Active Listening sketchnote by Claudio Advocates of active learning must consider the active learning space from many perspectives. For example, I tend to think about space experientially, creating a picture in my own mind of a space that is used … Continue reading →
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  28. amiddlet50

    Promoting learner autonomy and the question of fail-safe strategies

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, authentic learning, Autonomy, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, Digital Placemaking, disclosure, heutagogy, inclusivity, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, risk, safe space, self-direction, Syndicated
    April 7, 2019
    As an advocate of active learning, learner autonomy is never far from my thinking. The development of confident autonomous lifelong learners and intrinsically motivated self-determined graduates captures, for me, the primary purpose of a UK higher education. It is the … Continue reading →
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  29. amiddlet50

    Doing, Being, Becoming, Belonging & Connecting #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, becoming, being, belonging, connecting, Connectionism, Constructivism, Digital Placemaking, doing, experiential learning, learner engagement, learning pace, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, Personal & Professional Development Planning, Reflection, self-efficacy, situated learning, social constructivism, social media for learning, space, Syndicated
    March 23, 2019
    The Twalk next week (27th March 2019) at 1-2pm UK time, has the theme of Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space, This post provides a little explanation of each of those keywords. Doing A focus … Continue reading →
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    Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

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    | active learning, becoming, being, belonging, BYOD, connecting, conversation, Digital Placemaking, doing, formal learning, home, informal learning, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, non-formal learning, ontology, place, polycontextuality, social media for learning, space, Syndicated, third place, twalk, walk, walking, walkshop
    March 21, 2019
    Join us for a Twalk , 27th March 2019 Theme: Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space Venue: Your campus When:  Wednesday 27th March 2019 between 1pm and 2pm (gather at 12.55 and allow time … Continue reading →
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