Vertical and horizontal learning networks: implications for #active learning

Vertical and horizontal learning networks: implications for #active learning

by amiddlet50

| 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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Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| 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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Universal design and #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| active learning, challenge, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, equity, failure, learner engagement, learning space, motivation, navigation, negotiation, PhD, self-direction, stretch, student-centred learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, universal design
November 3, 2019

Following on from the previous post on Decolonising the active curriculum, this post looks more closely at some of the seven principles of universal design to explore how they can inform the active learning space – its pedagogy and physical-digital … Continue reading →
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Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| 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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Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones

by amiddlet50

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

by amiddlet50

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

by amiddlet50

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

by amiddlet50

| 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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The core principles of co-production

by amiddlet50

| #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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Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

by amiddlet50

| 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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Product – co-production vs commodification as a site of learning

by amiddlet50

| 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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Standing, walking and crawling in action #activelearningNTW

by amiddlet50

| active learning, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, floor-based pedagogy, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, Possibilities, stand-up pedagogy, studio-based learning, Syndicated, walking
June 12, 2019

The Standing, Walking, Crawling workshop I ran at yesterday’s Active Learning Conference worked remarkably well! Here’s the proof. This is what we made when responding to the challenge to design a novel active learning pedagogy unconstrained by furniture. Three groups, … Continue reading →
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Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| Academic innovation, active learning, Digital Placemaking, floor-based pedagogy, learning space, learning walk, Possibilities, social media for learning, space, studio-based learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking, walls
June 8, 2019

On Tuesday I will be running a workshop at the Active Learning Conference at the University of Sussex. Titled ‘Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning’, it reflects on some of the active learning techniques I have developed … Continue reading →
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Creating the Active Learning Space #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| #learning, active learning, creativity, learner engagement, learning space, planning, studio-based learning, Syndicated, Teaching
March 26, 2019

I was delighted to run a session today for Researchers Who Teach on Active Learning – Benefits and Strategies. I got there early, as you do. And that’s the point. I keep reading that active Learning is more work for … Continue reading →
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Kitchen and studio-based learning

by amiddlet50

| 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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Creative responsibility

by amiddlet50

| active learning, belonging, BYOD, creativity, employability, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, responsibility, skills, studio-based learning, Syndicated, team work
September 3, 2018

I spent the day in the studio a few days ago with some of my band. This set of sessions has been going on for a while and we came armed with a list of parts that needed to be … Continue reading →
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Polycontextual bridging – how to be in two places at once

by amiddlet50

| boundary crossing, BYOD, learning space, polycontextual bridging, polycontextuality, Social Media, social media for learning, studio-based learning, Syndicated, walking
February 22, 2018

Polycontextual bridging (Elstad, 2016) is a useful term that allows us to explore literacies around engaging with hybridity, blended learning spaces and learning literacies. Simply, it refers to the experience of being in two or more places at once. … Continue reading →
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B plus or A minus? Assessment in the creative disciplines

by amiddlet50

| artefact, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, authentic learning, ipsative assessment, learning currencies, learning space, process book, situated learning, studio-based learning, Syndicated
February 13, 2018

I attended ‘B plus or A minus? Assessment in the creative disciplines’, part of a programme of events being run by the University of the Arts London last week. The venue, Central St Martin’s (CSM) new Granary Wharfe, is a … Continue reading →
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Place is our starting point

by amiddlet50

| active learning, being, belonging, Digital Placemaking, learning space, place, placemaking, Possibilities, Social Media, social media for learning, space, studio for all, studio-based learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking
January 1, 2018

“In Aristotle …we have a very powerful philosophy of place as the starting point for all other forms of existence.” (Cresswell, 2009, p. 2) This year will see the publication of my book Reimagining Spaces for Learning in Higher Education. … Continue reading →
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