Tag Archives: social media

Revisting the 5Cs to discover value for different times

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Andrew Middleton

I have had an immense feeling of warmth and solidarity this evening as good thoughts and memories have been triggered by Sheila’s post on How Sheila Sees It ‘Bring your own device for learning or bringing learning to your device?’ … Continue reading →

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The advent of the Social Media for Learning Journal

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Andrew Middleton

News that the network behind the Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference is launching a journal, Journal of Social Media for Learning, to further explore the implications of social media as a space for learning is welcome. The … Continue reading →

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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 →

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The core principles of co-production

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Co-production, as defined by Filipe et al. (2017), is “an exploratory space and a generative process that leads to different, and sometimes unexpected, forms of knowledge, values, and social relations.” It is more than a matter of ‘production’ being an outcome … 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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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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The happy accident – accidental learning #socmedhe18

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

I am trying to write about formality in learning. This is an ongoing theme for me inevitability, given my interest in spaces for learning in which the learner is the prime mover and agent at the centre of their learning. … 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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Productive failure, drawing and erasing – exploring visual literacies #twalk #possibilities

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

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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