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Learning walks with awe are good for you

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Andrew Middleton

Awe walks boost emotional well-being according to a recent study conducted by researchers from UC San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin. The study looked at the effect of a weekly 15 minute walk on adults in which selected walkers reported … 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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The tweet is the new photograph

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

I am reading Susan Sontag’s seminal book On Photography from 1977. It’s interesting reading the book in an age where the act of photographing the world has exploded beyond what Sontag could have imagined – even though her critique of … Continue reading →

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