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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

Learning with consequence #activelearning

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Andrew Middleton

It’s the Global Festival of Active Learning this week. Our secret question in the organising group is ‘so how do we make this a festival and not a conference?’ It’s got to be about people and attitude. Just feeling good … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Learner Engagement, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, campfire, co-operation, conversation, learning environments, reflection, walk | 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

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

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

Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Join us for a Twalk , 27th March 2019 Theme: Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space I have posted on each of the theme keywords. The key question for us to explore is, how … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, Polycontextuality, Social Media for Learning, Walking | Tagged Active Learning, becoming, being, Belonging, connecting, conversation, doing, formal learning, home, informal learning, non-formal learning, ontology, place, space, third place, twalk, walk, Walking, walkshop | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Learning Space and Place, Walking | Tagged drawing, event, learning environments, metaphor, mobile learning, photography, sm4l, smart devices, Smart Learning & BYOD, social media, Social Media for Learning, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, visual literacies, walk, Walking | Leave a comment

A place for imagining – blue skies under the tree canopy

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

Myself and a colleague have some difficult thinking to do this week. Exciting thinking, but difficult nevertheless. So, we could book out a teaching room lined with whiteboards for the day and see what happens, but that feels too ‘inward’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, BYOD, BYOD4L, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Walking | Tagged agility, apps, authentic learning, brainstorming, co-operation, collabnorating, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, complexity, innovation, Learner Engagement, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, meeting, reflection, situated learning, smart devices, Smart Learning & BYOD, space, student engagement, tools, walk, Walking | 1 Comment

Global #Twalkday

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

Global #Twalkday Wednesday 3rd October 2018 Theme: Doing, being, becoming, belonging and connecting Time: 3pm GMT (but options for other time zones to be decided) What is Twalkday? The Twalk will be co-ordinated globally and is planned to coincide with … Continue reading →

Posted in Belonging, Digital Placemaking, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, Social Media for Learning, Walking | Tagged agency, Belonging, collaborating, identity, Learner Engagement, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, mobile learning, network, place, placemaking, sm4l, smart devices, Smart Learning & BYOD, social media, space, student engagement, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walkshop | 1 Comment

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