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Category Archives: Academic Innovation and Possibilities
Community of Enhancement
I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos … Continue reading
Crisis – what crisis? A time for academic innovation
At Wonkfest I attended a panel session titled Changing the Culture of Changing the Culture in which Charlotte Summers, who is Head of Commercial Development at the RSA, referred to the RSA’s excellent Future Change Framework. Admittedly, I am a … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Creativity
Tagged change, co-operation, collaboration, connecting, inclusivity, innovation, placemaking, teaching
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Photopedagogy and photovoice
Loopmans et al. (2012) observe that photographs incite public debate about place and community. When that public context is the university course and where there is a desire for learning engagement and community building, how can photography empower the learner? … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, BYOD4L, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, photopedagogy, Smart Learning & BYOD, Social Media for Learning
Tagged Active Learning, agency, audio, audio-enhanced learning, Belonging, capture, co-production, community, connectivity, learner gatherer, learning ecologies, learning ecology, location, mobile learning, photo elicitation, photograph, photography, photomontage, photopedagogy, photovoice, place, portfolio, screen-based learning, smartphone, ubiquitous technolous, user producer
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Simulation – storyboarding and paper prototyping #activelearning
Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash Educational simulation is an interesting and, in my view, underutilised area of active learning. Often associated with technology-based approaches, educational simulation is in fact a broader field. In this broad sense it creates a … Continue reading
Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning
In an earlier post I referred to Learning Walks as conversational learning spaces. As such, they exemplify active learning spaces. The focus on conversation as a dimension of active learning is at the heart of the rationale for advocacy for … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Employability, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence, PhD, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking
Tagged Active Learning, agency, context, conversation, Creativity, diversity, exchange, identity, improvisation, inclusivity, Learning Space and Place, negotiation, openness, parity, place, selfregulation, serendipity, social construction, storytelling, timeliness, trust
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Wrecking it with Brexit
I’m sitting in a café on La Rambla in Barcelona following a couple of days participating in an international learning spaces summit in Barcelona (#ILS2019). (nb. I use ‘participating’ not ‘attending’) We are getting really close to Brexit now and … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Employability, Gamification, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Open Learning, Scholarship and Research
Tagged Active Learning, assemblage theory, Brexit, co-creation, conference, connectivity, ecology, Employability, globalisation, icebreaker, intercultural learning, interdisciplinary learning, interprofessionalism, Learning Space and Place, Lego Serious Play, LSP, populism, scholarship
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Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones
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
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, Gamification, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, Polycontextuality, Scholarship and Research, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged actor-network theory, affective domain, affordances, ANT, assemblage theory, atmospheres, attention, audio, digital voices, emotional intelligence, games development, headphones, immersive learning space, isolation, polycontextual bridging, psychosocial, sound space, spatial literacy, spheres, Studio
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The Connected Classroom – “The Hub of Connectivity” #activelearning #hybridlearning
I am preparing a workshop for #ARUDigiFest titled ‘Digital collaborators: developing a digital classroom approach of connected learning’ (Cambridge 9th September and Chelmsford 11th September). Working with my colleague Uwe Richter, we will explore the idea of the digital classroom … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Active Learning, authentic learning, blended learning, co-creation, co-production, conceptual knowledge, connected learning, context, definition, digifest, digital learning, hybrid learning space, hybrid learning studio, hybridity, ideas, interactivity, learner-generated content, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, place, real world, situated learning, space, technology, technology-enhanced learning
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Blogging as a site of embodiment, co-production and enculturation
In this post I look at blogging as a studio space by reflecting on how and why I blog. A study of studio is a study of embodiment: the “embodied occupational engagement in constructing meaning [and how] the occupations in … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Learning Space and Place, Social Media for Learning
Tagged ANT, assemblage theory, blogging, challenge, co-production, components, Creativity, critical ontology, distributed cognition, embodiment, hybrid learning studio, ontology, othering, paradox, podcasting, site, situated learning, Social Media for Learning, sociomateriality, Studio, studio for all, support, ZPD
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The core principles of co-production
Co-production, as defined by Filipe et al. (2017), is “an exploratory space and a generative process that leads to different, and sometimes unexpected, forms of knowledge, values, and social relations.” It is more than a matter of ‘production’ being an outcome … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged co-production, collaboration, hybrid learning studio, learner-generated content, learning, principles, relationships, social media, Studio, Web 2.0
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