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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Walks as Learning Space
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
Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Walking
Tagged Active Learning, activity, co-operative learning, conversation, deep learning, group work, Learning Space and Place, learning walk, narrative, storytelling, walk
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Active co-operativism for active learning
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
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Employability, Learner Engagement, Literacies and Intelligence
Tagged active co-operativism, Active Learning, actor-network theory, assemblage theory, co-operation, co-production, dispositions, distributed cognition, ethos, mutuality, peer co-operation, peer learning, skills
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Promoting learner autonomy and the question of fail-safe strategies
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
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence
Tagged authentic learning, autonomy, co-operation, disclosure, heutagogy, inclusivity, learner autonomy, risk, safe space, self-direction
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