Category Archives: BYOD

Pedagogy of Bring Your Own Device

Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Andrew Middleton

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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Space Walk #Twalk #ALN #activelearning

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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Get active- watch TV

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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Active co-operativism for active learning

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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#Twalk – a new active pedagogy explained

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Join us for a Twalk , 27th March 2019 Theme: Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space I have posted on each of the theme keywords. The key question for us to explore is, how … Continue reading →

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Being there – thinking about presence #socmedhe18 #mugafesto

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

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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MELSIG – Promoting the UK Professional Standards Framework #UKPSF #MELSIG

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

I am publishing this to Tactile first, and will republish on the MELSIG site which is currently moving server from our original home MELSIG is the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group, a UK higher education academic development network. I hope … Continue reading →

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