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  1. amiddlet50

    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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  2. amiddlet50

    Vertical and horizontal learning networks: implications for #active learning

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    | active learning, boundary crossing, co-operation, co-operative learning, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, competition, horizontal networks, hybrid learning space, joint enterprise, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, place, social media for learning, space, studio, Studio and Studio-based Learning, studio-based learning, Syndicated, vertical networks
    August 1, 2021
    This presentation is useful for thinking about the difference between collaborative and co-operative learning. My interest in social media for learning, studio-based learning, and hybrid learning centres on how people work and learn together. They often return to ‘working alongside’ … Continue reading ?
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  3. amiddlet50

    Crisis – what crisis? A time for academic innovation

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Change, co-operation, collaboration, connecting, creativity, inclusivity, innovation, placemaking, Syndicated, Teaching
    June 10, 2021
    At Wonkfest I attended a panel session titled Changing the Culture of Changing the Culture in which Charlotte Summers, who is Head of Commercial Development at the RSA, referred to the RSA’s excellent Future Change Framework. Admittedly, I am a … Continue reading ?
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  4. amiddlet50

    Conversation-base #activelearning – exploiting the differences between dialogue and debate

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    | active learning, active listening, argument, co-operation, competition, conceit, Conflict, confrontation, conversation, conviction, crit, critical analysis, Critique, debate, debrief, dialogue, exchange, fake news, ground rules, influence, Inquiry Based Learning, ipsative assessment, leadership, moot, mooting, pedagogy, persuasion, Reflection, reflective learning, safe space, sport, Syndicated
    May 30, 2021
    Active learning is essentially conversational – a ‘to-ing and fro-ing’ of ideas, whether this is a collaborative exchange or personal cogitation and reflection. Pedagogically, there is a lot to exploit here. I was recently involved in a discussion about the … Continue reading ?
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  6. amiddlet50

    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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  7. 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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  9. 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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  10. amiddlet50

    Co-creation and epistemic fluency – the real legacy of Web 2.0 and social media for learning

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    | acquisition, active learning, agency, becoming, co-creation, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaboration, Contribution-oriented approach, creativity, Design Thinking, distributed authorship, employability, epistemic fluency, identity, innovation, learner engagement, learner-generated context, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, multimedia, networked authorship, participation, PhD, Problem Solving, research, skills, slow media, social media for learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, web 2.0
    September 4, 2019
    Tomorrow’s professionals will require an enhanced capacity for collaboration, co-operation and creative thinking (Markauskaite and Goodyear, 2016). Mclaughlan & Lodge (2019) draw parallels between epistemic fluency and design thinking to position the design studio as a relevant pedagogical model with an … Continue reading →
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  11. amiddlet50

    Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, assemblage theory, Assessment & Feedback, BYOD, co-creation, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaborating, collaboration, competition, creativity, ecology, gamification, Image, Instagram, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning space, memes, motivation, peer assessment, PhD, sm4l, smart learning, Social Media, social media for learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, team-based learning
    August 3, 2019
    I have been reading a great paper this morning on the use of Instagram memes by students studying art at Central St Martins (Burns et al., 2016). Amongst the many themes present in the paper, I picked up on one … Continue reading →
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  12. amiddlet50

    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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. amiddlet50

    Repositioning contact time to explain the value of education

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    | active learning, agency, agility, Autonomy, belonging, boundary crossing, challenge, co-operation, collaboration, collabotation, communities of practice, ecology, employability, engagement, identity, journey, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, learning space, liminality, motivation, networked learning, People, place, placemaking, Reflection, Relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, time, transformation
    February 24, 2019
    I happened to mention that I worked in higher education to a women who sold me a vase in a craft shop; the sort of situation where I normally feel at ease with people I meet beyond the educational setting. … Continue reading →
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  17. amiddlet50

    Kitchen and studio-based learning

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    | active learning, Assessment, co-operation, collaborating, cooking, creativity, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, peer assessment, peer mentoring, self-assessment, space, student engagement, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    September 4, 2018
    The Great British Menu is back on UK television at the moment. I am not a fan of cooking programmes – though others are in my household – so, it’s on and inevitably I get caught up in it. Assessment … Continue reading →
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  19. amiddlet50

    A place for imagining – blue skies under the tree canopy

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, agility, apps, authentic learning, brainstorming, BYOD, BYOD4L, co-operation, collabnorating, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, complexity, innovation, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, meeting, Reflection, situated learning, smart devices, smart learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, tools, walk, walking
    June 26, 2018
    Myself and a colleague have some difficult thinking to do this week. Exciting thinking, but difficult nevertheless. So, we could book out a teaching room lined with whiteboards for the day and see what happens, but that feels too ‘inward’ … Continue reading →
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  20. amiddlet50

    Friendship and the classroom

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    | agency, Applied Learning, belonging, BYOD, co-operation, ecology, identity, in-between, interactivity, journey, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning space, liminality, place, placemaking, space, student engagement, Syndicated, Third Space, trust
    September 27, 2017
    I attended a seminar today given by my colleague Emma Heron. I was fortunate enough to mentor Emma through a year-long research project looking at the role of friendship in the student experience. It was good to catch up today … Continue reading →
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