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  1. amiddlet50

    Walks as Learning Space

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    | 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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  2. 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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  3. amiddlet50

    Promoting learner autonomy and the question of fail-safe strategies

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, authentic learning, Autonomy, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, Digital Placemaking, disclosure, heutagogy, inclusivity, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, risk, safe space, self-direction, Syndicated
    April 7, 2019
    As an advocate of active learning, learner autonomy is never far from my thinking. The development of confident autonomous lifelong learners and intrinsically motivated self-determined graduates captures, for me, the primary purpose of a UK higher education. It is the … Continue reading →
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  5. amiddlet50

    Celebrate #imperfection. Challenge resilience.

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    | Assessment & Feedback, creativity, employability, graduate capabilities, graduate capitals, imperfection, Literacies and intelligence, motivation, perfectionism, Personal & Professional Development Planning, resilience, success, Syndicated
    March 19, 2019
    I listed to Thomas Curran’s TedTalk ‘Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse’ before I left for work this morning. Curran warns against perfectionism, and his warning kept me thinking all day. Here are three mini-stories that explain why … Continue reading →
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  12. 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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  13. ryanseslow

    Wally Sutton’s Internet Art Making Creative Blogging Project

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    | blogging, creativity, CT 101, CT101, CUNY, digital storytelling, gif, image-making, Syndicated, Wally Sutton, writing
    March 5, 2018
    Wally Sutton’s Internet Art Making Creative Blogging Project. Who is Wally Sutton and why is he here? Simply put, Wally Sutton is a fictional character. He’s a Walrus, however, he doesn’t know that Walrus’s aren’t supposed to wear human clothing or sell things like motherboards and other computer hardware… That is what makes Wally, Wally. He is … Continue reading "Wally Sutton’s Internet Art Making Creative Blogging Project"
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