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  1. amiddlet50

    Fluency – standing, walking, dancing

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, balance, capabilities, creativity, curiosity, digital fluency, flency, flow, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, postdigital, skills, Syndicated, walking
    February 21, 2021
    Being able to distinguish between skills, literacy and fluency is a perennial part of my job as an educational developer. This is most visible in thinking about how to communicate and engage people in conversations to do with digital capabilities, … Continue reading ?
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  2. amiddlet50

    Feedback: where learning begins #activelearning

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    | active learning, Assessment & Feedback, e-portfolios, feedback, formative assessment, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, notemaking, Personal & Professional Development Planning, portfolios, Reflection, reflective learning, Syndicated
    September 13, 2020
    While the title of this post is intentionally contentious, it allows me to reflect on one or two recent discussions and reinforce some key ideas about active learning design, especially in the context of ‘unified’ active learning (UAL): how it … Continue reading ?
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  3. amiddlet50

    Curation as a pedagogy #activelearning

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    | active learning, BYOD4L, co-creation, creativity, critical literacy, curation, digital fluency, digital literacy, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, skills, social bookmarking, Syndicated
    September 2, 2020
    This article considers the agency of the learner in an active learning context. It considers curation as an act of making; more than taking, the learner processes artefacts to discover new knowledge. Curation is an iterative learning activity of collecting, … Continue reading ?
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. amiddlet50

    Celebrate #imperfection. Challenge resilience.

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    | Assessment & Feedback, creativity, employability, graduate capabilities, graduate capitals, imperfection, Literacies and intelligence, motivation, perfectionism, Personal & Professional Development Planning, resilience, success, Syndicated
    March 19, 2019
    I listed to Thomas Curran’s TedTalk ‘Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse’ before I left for work this morning. Curran warns against perfectionism, and his warning kept me thinking all day. Here are three mini-stories that explain why … Continue reading →
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  11. amiddlet50

    Lurking, Active Learning and Legitimate Peripheral Participation #socmedhe18

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    | active learning, belonging, BYOD, communities of practice, Lave, legitimate periupheral participation, Literacies and intelligence, lurking, modelling, observation, open learning, peer mentoring, research, scaffolding, Smart Learning book, social media for learning, Syndicated, Vygotsky, Wenger
    November 29, 2018
    The first principle of active learning according to Bonwell & Eison (1991) is that it is more than passive listening. A rather negative note to start on perhaps, but we can see where they’re coming from. As we prepare, at … Continue reading →
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  13. amiddlet50

    The tweet is the new photograph

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    | agency, Digital Placemaking, Instagram, Literacies and intelligence, mediation, photo, photography, Possibilities, Snapchat, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated, tweet, twitter
    July 15, 2018
    I am reading Susan Sontag’s seminal book On Photography from 1977. It’s interesting reading the book in an age where the act of photographing the world has exploded beyond what Sontag could have imagined – even though her critique of … Continue reading →
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  14. amiddlet50

    The future is active – implications for future academic practice

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, active pedadgogy, Assessment & Feedback, authentic learning, belonging, communities of practice, creativity, critical literacy, debate, Digital Placemaking, futures, graduate capabilities, group work, immersive learning, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, networked learning, nomadicism, rtesilience, self-efficacy, spaced learning, Syndicated, trends
    June 25, 2018
    I have been thinking about the future academic and the implications for academic development recently. The Open University’s ‘Innovating Pedagogy’ is an insightful annual report (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/), though I would love to see one for 2018. I have seen Mike Shales … Continue reading →
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  15. amiddlet50

    The habit of thinking differently by looking more deeply

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    | active learning, BYOD, immersion, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, Media-enhanced learning, multiple intelligencies, non-formal learning, open learning, photography, Possibilities, social space, Syndicated, visual literacy, walking
    May 3, 2018
    An exploration of visual literacies and multiple intelligences There are many reasons why I have committed to exploring the idea of learning walks in terms of learning space and many of those reasons have been discussed here previously. For the … Continue reading →
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