Learning walks with awe are good for you

Learning walks with awe are good for you

by amiddlet50

| active learning, awe walks, critical thinking, Global Festival of Active Learning, Instagram, learning walk, meander, nightwalk, psychogeography, rural landscape, sublime, Syndicated, twalk, urban lanscape, walk, wander
May 23, 2021

Awe walks boost emotional well-being according to a recent study conducted by researchers from UC San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin. The study looked at the effect of a weekly 15 minute walk on adults in which selected walkers reported … Continue reading ?
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Learning with consequence #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| active learning, campfire, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, conversation, learner engagement, learning environments, Reflection, Syndicated, walk, walking
April 21, 2021

It’s the Global Festival of Active Learning this week. Our secret question in the organising group is ‘so how do we make this a festival and not a conference?’ It’s got to be about people and attitude. Just feeling good … Continue reading ?
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Further reflections on learning walks and the #Twalk model of #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| active learning, ambiguity, Co-operative pedagogy, connectivism, deviation, embodiment, group size, group work, intimacy, learner engagement, learning ecologies, learning space, learning walk, liminality, Live Briefs, motivation, multitasking, negotiated space, negotiation, networked authorship, notemaking, ownership, polycontextuality, Reflection, sandpit, self-determination, Social Media, social media for learning, stimulus, Syndicated, third place, twalk, twilight, twitter, walk, walking
January 25, 2020

The walk I organised for last week introduced several new ideas about the role and methods of learning walks for me. This is a very long post. I was tempted to break it down. However, I needed to get it … Continue reading →
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Learning Spaces twilight walk on #ActiveLearning on Thursday – join us! #SpaceTwalk2020 #ALN

by amiddlet50

| 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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Walks as Learning Space

by amiddlet50

| active learning, Activity, co-operative learning, Co-operative pedagogy, conversation, creativity, deep learning, Digital Placemaking, group work, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, narrative, storytelling, Syndicated, walk, walking
April 30, 2019

Learning walks exemplify conversational learning spaces. In this post I reflect on how I designed the learning walk I conducted today for the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Social Sciences Learning Spaces Group which I am mentoring as they plan … Continue reading →
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Active listening for active learning

by amiddlet50

| #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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Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

by amiddlet50

| 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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Productive failure, drawing and erasing – exploring visual literacies #twalk #possibilities

by amiddlet50

| drawing, event, learning environments, learning space, metaphor, mobile learning, photography, sm4l, smart devices, smart learning, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, visual literacies, walk, walking
July 11, 2018

More walking, talking and Twalking (just about) I co-led a Twalk today on the subject of visual literacies as part of Sheffield Hallam University’s Learning & Teaching Conference with my colleague Helen Rodger. It was billed simply as a learning … Continue reading →
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A place for imagining – blue skies under the tree canopy

by amiddlet50

| 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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Global #Twalkday

by amiddlet50

| agency, belonging, collaborating, Digital Placemaking, identity, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, mobile learning, network, place, placemaking, sm4l, smart devices, smart learning, Social Media, social media for learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walking, walkshop
April 19, 2018

Global #Twalkday Wednesday 3rd October 2018 Theme: Doing, being, becoming, belonging and connecting Time: 3pm GMT (but options for other time zones to be decided) What is Twalkday? The Twalk will be co-ordinated globally and is planned to coincide with … Continue reading →
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#minitwalk demonstrates the flexibility of the #twalk model at #socmedhe17

by amiddlet50

| #socmedhe17, active learning, collaborating, CPD, Digital Placemaking, event, innovation, learning space, place, placemaking, Possibilities, sm4l, smart devices, social, Social Media, social media for learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, technique, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walking
February 22, 2018

Since our first successful use of the #twalk model in May 2017, a number of #twalks have used the model in different situations. Our experience and understanding of the #twalk is growing. A number of us involved in … Continue reading →
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Twalking as digital placemaking #twalk #socmedhe17

by amiddlet50

| active learning, BYOD, Digital Placemaking, learning space, MELSIG, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, walk, walking
December 16, 2017

This 10 minute screencast introduces the key ideas of the twalk concept – learning walks with integrated tweetchats – and the pedagogic rationale underpinning walking, talking, tweeting and thinking. The video is part of the Twalk Toolkit being developed on … Continue reading →
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