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  1. amiddlet50

    Revisting the 5Cs to discover value for different times

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    | active learning, belonging, BYOD, BYOD4L, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, Communication, connectivism, creativity, curation, ecology, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, MELSIG, place, Smart Learning & BYOD, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
    January 16, 2021
    I have had an immense feeling of warmth and solidarity this evening as good thoughts and memories have been triggered by Sheila’s post on How Sheila Sees It ‘Bring your own device for learning or bringing learning to your device?’ … Continue reading ?
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  2. amiddlet50

    Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

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    | 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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  3. amiddlet50

    Space Walk #Twalk #ALN #activelearning

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    | active learning, becoming, being, belonging, BYOD, connecting, connectivism, D3BC, Digital Placemaking, doing, identity, learner engagement, learning space, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk
    December 19, 2019
    Active Learning Network – Space Walk 16 January 2020, 16:00 – 18:00 GMT Our Active Learning Network satellite group will be taking part in a Space Walk at Anglia Ruskin University and we hope others in the sector will join … Continue reading →
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  4. amiddlet50

    Get active- watch TV

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    | active learning, bob, Box of Broadcasts, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, learner engagement, Media-enhanced learning, peer assessment, problem-based learning, scenario-based learning, scenarios, Syndicated, Video
    September 11, 2019
    My colleague Jason Williams at ARU’s DigiFest (#ARUDigifest) introduced our academics to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), a service provided by the British University’s Film & Video Council (BUFVC). The service provides access to 65 ‘free-to-air’ channels and their current and … Continue reading →
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  5. 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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  6. amiddlet50

    Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

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    | 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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  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

    #Twalk – a new active pedagogy explained

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, BYOD, learner engagement, Media-enhanced learning, pedagogy, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking
    March 28, 2019
    This post, and the ones that will follow, reflect on the Twalk as a pedagogy. In particular, I consider how students can draw upon the conversational activity and use the data it generates as the basis for developing and explaining … Continue reading →
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  9. amiddlet50

    Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

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    | 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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  10. amiddlet50

    Being there – thinking about presence #socmedhe18 #mugafesto

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, belonging, BYOD, co-production, creativity, Digital Placemaking, friendship, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, networked authorship, open learning, polycontextuality, Presence, research, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
    January 10, 2019
    First, and significantly, let me thank my colleagues and co-facilitators of #socmedhe18 which happened at Nottingham Trent University on Wednesday. I will reflect separately on the power of friend-based collaboration as a disruptive basis for creating a stimulating learning environment … Continue reading →
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  12. 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

    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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  15. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  21. amiddlet50

    Twalking as digital placemaking #twalk #socmedhe17

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    | 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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  24. amiddlet50

    “Things that the mind already knows” – what is an assessment? #assessment #briefing

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    | Assessment & Feedback, briefing, BYOD, setting assessment, Syndicated
    December 11, 2017
    The American artist Jasper Johns, whose retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy closed over the weekend, was fascinated with exploring the theme ‘Things that the Mind Already Knows’. He is perhaps best known for his interest in iconographic images, especially … Continue reading →
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  25. amiddlet50

    Learning obscured due to overcrowding

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    | Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, briefing, BYOD, clarity, learning outcomes, peer co-operation, self-assessment, slow learning, Syndicated
    December 9, 2017
    Following on from my previous post on the criticality of students being clear about their assessment, I note that Black & Wiliam (1998, pp. 9-10) make similar points, while talking about self-assessment, about the engagement of students with their assessment. … Continue reading →
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  27. amiddlet50

    Friendship and the classroom

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    | agency, Applied Learning, belonging, BYOD, co-operation, ecology, identity, in-between, interactivity, journey, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning space, liminality, place, placemaking, space, student engagement, Syndicated, Third Space, trust
    September 27, 2017
    I attended a seminar today given by my colleague Emma Heron. I was fortunate enough to mentor Emma through a year-long research project looking at the role of friendship in the student experience. It was good to catch up today … Continue reading →
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