Tag Archives: social media for learning

Co-creation and epistemic fluency – the real legacy of Web 2.0 and social media for learning

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

Tomorrow’s professionals will require an enhanced capacity for collaboration, co-operation and creative thinking (Markauskaite and Goodyear, 2016). Mclaughlan & Lodge (2019) draw parallels between epistemic fluency and design thinking to position the design studio as a relevant pedagogical model with an … Continue reading →

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Blogging as a site of embodiment, co-production and enculturation

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

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 →

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Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

Posted on August 3, 2019 by

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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#mugafesto #socmedhe18

Posted on January 2, 2019 by

What is #mugafesto? Mugafesto is your manifesto on a cup! What do you need your manager, your academic colleagues, peers or students to see each morning as they have their cornflakes?! What hyperbolic pronouncement will get them thinking? …Get them … Continue reading →

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Productive failure, drawing and erasing – exploring visual literacies #twalk #possibilities

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

More walking, talking and Twalking (just about) I co-led a Twalk today on the subject of visual literacies as part of Sheffield Hallam University’s Learning & Teaching Conference with my colleague Helen Rodger. It was billed simply as a learning … Continue reading →

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Crashing or connecting? Navigating the #twalk boundaries

Posted on July 6, 2018 by

The #connectedlearning space, in its many and various meanings, is central to my thinking about the future classroom. This is obviously epitomised in the concept of the #twalk. It was lovely to hear that Alex Spiers was leading a Twalk … Continue reading →

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Where are you taking me? Thinking about the politics of network

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

The transcript of ‘Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines’, a keynote delivered at EDEN 2015 in Barcelona by Audrey Watters in 2015, is a good read for anyone interested in networked learning, media-enhanced learning, and the use of social media for … Continue reading →

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