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  1. natalie

    Heartache’s Mosaic: The Unseen Threads of Resilience

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    | Christmas, family, girlfriend, life, Love, Reading, Relationships, short stories, short story, shortstories, Stories, Syndicated
    December 17, 2023
    In the midst of a scorching summer, an elderly gentleman returned from his Portuguese escapade, a spot his kids swore by after reveling in its beauty. But alas, he returned ailing, doctors scratching their heads despite weeks of poking and prodding in the hospital. Cue his daughter, a paragon of devotion, swooping in to nurse… Continue reading Heartache’s Mosaic: The Unseen Threads of Resilience
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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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  3. amiddlet50

    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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  5. 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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  6. amiddlet50

    The core principles of co-production

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    | #learning, active learning, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaboration, hybrid learning studio, learner-generated content, Possibilities, principles, Relationships, Social Media, social media for learning, studio-based learning, Syndicated, web 2.0
    August 5, 2019
    Co-production, as defined by Filipe et al. (2017), is “an exploratory space and a generative process that leads to different, and sometimes unexpected, forms of knowledge, values, and social relations.” It is more than a matter of ‘production’ being an outcome … Continue reading →
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  11. amiddlet50

    Researching academic innovation to foster belonging

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    | Academic innovation, belonging, identity, innovation, learning environments, learning space, People, place, placemaking, Relationships, research, research methods, social, student engagement, Syndicated, Third Space
    March 4, 2018
      I am working with an innovative subject group at the moment who have done much to foster student belonging. They have a long list of small recent and current initiatives intended to develop a cohesive disciplinary identity. Previously, they … Continue reading →
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  12. Tyler Hart

    Relationships Reign!

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    | Conferences, Relationships, Syndicated
    January 12, 2016
    Today, I attended the first day of the The FETC Executive Summit in Orlando, FL. The Future of Educational Technology Conference is one of my favorites to attend, and being invited to the Executive Summit that includes state- and district-level IT leaders, superintendents and administrators was a huge honor to me. This is the 2nd year … Continue reading ?
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