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Category Archives: Active Learning
Transgressive learning – moving away from a mindset of inevitability
Transgressive learning is a term associated with sustainability. Wals (2021), for example, discusses the Power of Transgressive Learning in an excellent post. My own interest in the term, however, came from reflecting on educational work I am currently involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Learning Space and Place, Polycontextuality, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Academic Innovation, adjacent space, agency, authentic learning, boundary crossing, communitas, Creativity, embodiment, experiential learning, heutagogy, learning ecologies, liminality, negotiated learning, non-formal learning, outsider, Polycontextuality, self-determination, self-determination theory, spatial fluency, sustainability, third place, Third Space, Transgressive learning
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Being smarter than AI – rethinking our assessment design?
The discussion channels used by educational developers have been dominated by the topic of ChatGPT since the New Year. There are two dimensions to this: concerns over academic integrity and the opportunity ChatGPT and other AI tools bring to assessment. … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Assessment & Feedback, Creativity
Tagged academic integrity, Active Learning, agency, AI, assessment, assessment literacy, authentic assessment, authentic learning, case-based learning, ChatGPT, currency, deduction, enquiry-based learning, inquiry, inquiry-based learning, nergotiated learning, open-ended, PBL, personaisation, problem-based learning, project-based learning, smart assessment, social, student-centred
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Absence of detail and the value of ambiguity in art and education
This post pulls together ideas about the value of ambiguity and space in art and education by drawing upon my diverse experiences as educator, artist, and musician. It wanders! In some ways, it is about creating room to wander. I hope you it connects with your own wanderings. Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Creativity, Learner Engagement, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking
Tagged abstract, agency, ambiguity, art, being, clarity, Creativity, detail, discovery, ethics, learning ecologies, literalism, music, narrative, noise, photography, reflection, scaffolding, sculpture, space, student engagement, student-centred, teaching
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A Man Walked into a Bar: humour, space, self-deprecation, #activelearning
In this post I explore the pedagogy of humour in the context of higher education teaching and learning and begin to realise there’s more to humour in the classroom than having a bit of fun! This was my starting point, … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Gamification, Learner Engagement
Tagged case-based learning, challenge, collaboration, deduction, edutainment, engagement, fun, game-based learning, group work, humour, in jokes, inclusivity, jokes, learning, performance, persona, play, playful learning, poetry, self-awareness, teaching, tension, trust
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Ritual in the learning environment
In this post I explore what is meant by ritual in relation to the teaching and learning experience and, as we reset our post-pandemic classrooms, why we should care. Given that there is little obligation to care, beyond a notion … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged acquiescence, Active Learning, affinity spaces, agency, being, Belonging, co-creation, collaboration, diversity, doing, habit, identity, liminality, non-formal learning, place, relationships, ritual, routine, Studio, studio for all
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Connecting curiosity, creativity and criticality
In this post I explore creativity and critical thinking and how they connect with the fostering of curiosity. This post continues my exploration of curiosity as a state of learning in which learner motivation and agency are central. Following on … Continue reading
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
Curiosity – untapping latent energy
Continuing from the post ‘Sublime, curious and distracted – challenging conceptions of learning’, I want to examine curiosity towards finding strategies that can be deployed by the academic and the learner themselves to create an engaging learning environment. Surely, curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Learner Engagement
Tagged agency, case-based learning, challenge, course design, course-focussed practice, critical thinking, curiosity, decision-based learning, deduction, deductive reasoning, deep learning, desire, drive, enjoyment, exploration, flow, fragmentation, graduate capabilities, interrogation, intrigue, intrinsic motivation, knowledge, lifelong learning, liminality, module-centric, narrative, negotiation, open-ended, passive learning, transition, wonder, wonderment
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Sublime, curious and distracted – challenging conceptions of learning
Tyson E. Lewis in ‘The Dude Abides, or Why Curiosity Is Important for Education Today’, looks at the idea of curiosity from a pedagogical perspective. He sets curiosity in stark contrast to widely held beliefs about education where blind faith … Continue reading
Unified Active Learning – our commitment to #activelearning wherever and however we access learning
I am in reflective mode – it’s summer 2021 and in the West we’re trying to get over the pandemic, catch our breath, and decide what we value, what we have done, what changes will stick. It is both a … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place
Tagged Active Learning, blended learning, challenge, change, collaborative, design, ecosystem, hybrid learning space, identity, inclusivity, innovation, Learner Engagement, learning environments, pandemic, placemaking, space, teaching, UAL, unified active learning
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