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Tag Archives: assemblage theory
Understanding polycontextuality through Happy Valley
The penultimate episode of Happy Valley on BBC TV included a very tense scene that helps to explain polycontextuality and why it is useful for educators. It seems like the whole country was gripped by Happy Valley – a psychologically … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Placemaking, Learning Space and Place, Polycontextuality
Tagged agency, assemblage theory, being, Belonging, boundary crossing, connecting, connectivism, conversation, digital-social age, ecology, experience, experiential learning, hybrid learning space, inclusivity, interactivity, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, liminality, network, networked authorship, networked learning, non-formal learning, place, placemaking, Polycontextuality, Presence, situated learning, social, social media, Social Media for Learning, space, third place, Third Space
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Deviation and self-determination #activelearning
In a previous post I suggested that the art of teaching to an active learning philosophy is about creating loose structures so that each and every student has the space to bring their own knowledge, experience and imagination to their … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Creativity, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Active Learning, assemblage theory, connectivism, constellation, curiosity, deviant, deviation, digital fluency, ecology, intrinsic motivation, learning ecologies, motivation, psyschogeography, self-determination, situated learning, spatial literacy, wander
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The problem with communities… a consideration of alternatives
Why do I explore ideas like being, belonging and becoming in relation to networks, but I hardly talk about communities any more? In this post I will look at why networks and affinity spaces more than communities have come to … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged affinity spaces, assemblage theory, communities of practice, ecology, learning ecology, networked authorship, networked learning, networking
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Networked authorship as a site of learning
The co-creation of knowledge is, I think, represented in the idea of networked authorship. It’s a term that works very well for me, though it is not widely used as far as I can tell. It was Matt Johnston at … Continue reading
Embodiment – physicality and presence in #activelearning
Imagine active learning. What comes to mind for me is people, together, finding value and common purpose in each other. ‘People’ is a significant word in this description. It’s not an abstract notion of ‘learner’, it is a real, humanistic … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence, PhD, Polycontextuality, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Active Learning, agency, assemblage theory, audio feedback, Belonging, blended learning, care, co-operation, communities of practice, conversation, critical pedagogy, ecology, experience, experiential learning, hapitics, identity, inclusivity, Learner Engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, networked learning, ontology, people, physicality, place, placemaking, Polycontextuality, Presence, Psychology, reflection, relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, smart devices, Smart Learning & BYOD, social theory, space, storytelling, Studio, studio for all, technology, Third Space, twalk, voice
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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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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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