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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 →

Posted in Active Learning | Tagged Active Learning, awe walks, critical thinking, Global Festival of Active Learning, instagram, learning walk, meander, nightwalk, psychogeography, rural landscape, sublime, twalk, urban lanscape, walk, wander | 1 Comment

Further reflections on learning walks and the #Twalk model of #activelearning

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Andrew Middleton

The walk I organised for last week introduced several new ideas about the role and methods of learning walks for me. This is a very long post. I was tempted to break it down. However, I needed to get it … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Polycontextuality, Social Media for Learning, Walking | Tagged ambiguity, connectivism, deviation, embodiment, group size, group work, intimacy, learning ecologies, learning walk, liminality, Live Briefs, motivation, multitasking, negotiated space, negotiation, networked authorship, notemaking, ownership, reflection, sandpit, self-determination, social media, stimulus, third place, twalk, twilight, twitter, walk | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, body language, confrontation, conversation, empathy, incidental learning, learning walk, listening skills, non-formal learning, personal space, serendipity | Leave a comment

Learning Spaces twilight walk on #ActiveLearning on Thursday – join us! #SpaceTwalk2020 #ALN

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Andrew Middleton

This is a reminder that this Thursday from 4pm-6pm (UK) our Active Learning Network at Anglia Ruskin University is conducting a learning space walk (#SpaceTwalk2020) and we encourage you to join us from wherever you are – walking in parallel … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Learning Space and Place, Polycontextuality, Social Media for Learning, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, Belonging, D3BC, identity, Learning Space and Place, learning walk, twalk, walk, walkshop | 1 Comment

Standing, walking and crawling in action #activelearningNTW

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

The Standing, Walking, Crawling workshop I ran at yesterday’s Active Learning Conference worked remarkably well! Here’s the proof. This is what we made when responding to the challenge to design a novel active learning pedagogy unconstrained by furniture. Three groups, … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, floor-based pedagogy, learning walk, stand-up pedagogy, Walking | Leave a comment

Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning #activelearning

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

On Tuesday I will be running a workshop at the Active Learning Conference at the University of Sussex. Titled ‘Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning’, it reflects on some of the active learning techniques I have developed … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Digital Placemaking, Learning Space and Place, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking | Tagged floor-based pedagogy, learning walk, space, twalk, Walking, walls | Leave a comment

Walks as Learning Space

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Learning walks exemplify conversational learning spaces. In this post I reflect on how I designed the learning walk I conducted today for the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Social Sciences Learning Spaces Group which I am mentoring as they plan … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, activity, co-operative learning, conversation, deep learning, group work, Learning Space and Place, learning walk, narrative, storytelling, walk | 1 Comment

Active listening for active learning

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Active Listening sketch note by Claudio Advocates of active learning must consider the active learning space from many perspectives. For example, I tend to think about space experientially, creating a picture in my own mind of a space that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Applied Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement | Tagged Active Learning, Belonging, co-operation, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, conversation, engagement, feedback, interactivity, learning, Learning Space and Place, learning walk, listening, people, Presence, reflection, relationships, situated learning, skills, social, teaching, trust, twalk, walk, Walking | Leave a comment

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Learning walks with awe are good for you

Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

Standing, walking and crawling in action #activelearningNTW

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