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  2. 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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  3. amiddlet50

    C is for course of course

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, belonging, confidence, consistency, course, course-focused practice, learner engagement, research, self-efficacy, Syndicated
    November 28, 2018
    Building upon research I conducted with student-nominated inspirational teachers in 2014 and then developed with colleagues here at SHU, to relate my work to the NSS, I have been working closely with all academic staff across three departments this year … Continue reading →
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  5. amiddlet50

    The happy accident – accidental learning #socmedhe18

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    | accidental learning, creativity, formal learning, incidental learning, informal learning, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, mistakes, risk, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
    November 7, 2018
    I am trying to write about formality in learning. This is an ongoing theme for me inevitability, given my interest in spaces for learning in which the learner is the prime mover and agent at the centre of their learning. … Continue reading →
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  6. amiddlet50

    Negotiated learning and the subject of teaching

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, authentic learning, BYOD, learner engagement, negotiated learning, scaffolding, situated learning, Syndicated, ZPD
    November 7, 2018
    What is the subject of teaching? In this post, I mull over this question, its several meanings and its implications for negotiated active learning. In my role as an educational developer with responsibilities for both staff and curriculum development, the … Continue reading →
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  7. 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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  10. 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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  11. amiddlet50

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

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    | 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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  12. amiddlet50

    Crashing or connecting? Navigating the #twalk boundaries

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Applied Learning, belonging, blended learning, boundary crossing, connected learning, Digital Placemaking, hybrid learning space, learner engagement, learning space, Possibilities, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, twitter, walking
    July 6, 2018
    The #connectedlearning space, in its many and various meanings, is central to my thinking about the future classroom. This is obviously epitomised in the concept of the #twalk. It was lovely to hear that Alex Spiers was leading a Twalk … Continue reading →
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. amiddlet50

    Attitudes, dispositions and learner maturity

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, Assessment, Autonomy, challenge, engagement, feedback, formative assessment, identity, learner autonomy, learner engagement, maturity, resilience, Syndicated, transformation
    June 24, 2018
    I ran a series of workshops with an academic department last week. One of the key themes was the need to focus more on those learning outcomes that address learning and graduate capability. Our context was the challenge of engaging … Continue reading →
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  17. amiddlet50

    Enhanced-learning – a spatial perspective #TEL

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    | #tel, active learning, blended learning, hybrid learning space, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group, Syndicated, technology-enhanced learning
    June 14, 2018
    I believe there is some confusion about the term technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and in general the idea of enhanced learning. In a recent post on Twitter @alejandro (12/06/18) says, “We should be critical of ‘technology-enhanced’ learning. Default setting: technology enhances things. … Continue reading →
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  18. amiddlet50

    Who is the FAB academic? Thinking about engaging the future academic (team)

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, blended learning, flexible learning, flipped learning, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, Possibilities, principles, Syndicated
    June 8, 2018
    FAB academics Introducing FAB – Flipped Active & Blended Learning FAB is a playful idea I am using in my MELSIG work. Graham McElearney and myself will be leading the development of a toolkit for academics focused on curriculum innovation … Continue reading →
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  19. amiddlet50

    Enjoyment, anticipation, challenge as factors affecting personal intrinsic investment #heutagogy

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    | active learning, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, challenge, collaboration, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning ecology, motivation, student engagement, Syndicated
    May 25, 2018
    In our research-informed development activities looking at learner non-engagement with formative assessment, with group work or with engaging in feedback, it is becoming clear that the lack of space given to developing learner ‘buy-in’ or developing ‘want’ is highly significant … Continue reading →
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  22. 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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  23. amiddlet50

    Global #Twalkday

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    | 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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  24. amiddlet50

    Missed opportunities – where are the alternatives to Storify?

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    | curation, delicious, digital narrative, Media-enhanced learning, Pearltrees, Possibilities, social media for learning, Storify, Syndicated
    March 11, 2018
    Storify.com is shutting up shop and this has been troubling me since the news was announced several months ago. The main problem, as I see it, is that Storify is a one-of-a-kind service. For educational users, it signalled the potential … Continue reading →
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  25. amiddlet50

    Where are you taking me? Thinking about the politics of network

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    | learning space, Media-enhanced learning, networked learning, Networking, open learning, politics, Possibilities, social media for learning, Syndicated, Technology
    March 5, 2018
    The transcript of ‘Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines’, a keynote delivered at EDEN 2015 in Barcelona by Audrey Watters in 2015, is a good read for anyone interested in networked learning, media-enhanced learning, and the use of social media for … Continue reading →
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  26. 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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  27. amiddlet50

    The writing is on the wall – poetry and place

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    | agency, art, belonging, home, learning space, place, placemaking, polycontextuality, public art, social media for learning, space, Syndicated
    February 28, 2018
    There has been an interesting little discussion on Twitter today following a post from @viviennestern. This, on a wall @sheffhallamuni made me stop and stare. For all the vitriol about universities, they exist to help us think better, understand more. What … Continue reading →
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  28. amiddlet50

    #minitwalk demonstrates the flexibility of the #twalk model at #socmedhe17

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    | #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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  29. amiddlet50

    Polycontextual bridging – how to be in two places at once

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    | 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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  30. amiddlet50

    B plus or A minus? Assessment in the creative disciplines

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    | 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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