The workshop explored the outcomes of a global CPD activity around a common walk augmented by the structured use of social media (a ‘#twalk’) in which all participants acted as co-producers to study the topic of digital placemaking. During the workshop we ran a #minitwalk (search for the evidence using the hashtag elsewhere). The workshop concluded with some parallel discussion activities. You can view and contribute to the google docs from the link in this presentation and you can also see a link to the #Twalk toolkit.
In this day and age where information is at the tip of your students fingers. As teachers, we need to find ways of making learning more dynamic. By flipping where we start on Bloom's Taxonomy, we can challenge our students in a new way.
Presented at the second UXLibs conference, held in Manchester in June 2016. Won the award for best presentation :-)
Check out this blog post for a better context to the slides: https://konferensrapport.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/my-presentation-at-uxlibs-ii/
In this day and age where information is at the tip of your students fingers. As teachers, we need to find ways of making learning more dynamic. By flipping where we start on Bloom's Taxonomy, we can challenge our students in a new way.
Presented at the second UXLibs conference, held in Manchester in June 2016. Won the award for best presentation :-)
Check out this blog post for a better context to the slides: https://konferensrapport.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/my-presentation-at-uxlibs-ii/
A presentation for colleagues in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
A massive thank you to my Twitter network. I can't think of a better way to convey the value of social media than this!
Reflected refracted revoiced Kaleidoscope 2014Janice K. Jones
Concluding seminar: Dr Janice K. Jones (jonesja@usq.edu.au) with Conference Attendees
“Opening Up the Ivory Tower” Kaleidoscope Conference 29 – 30 May, 2014 Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. UK
Easy-to-adapt approaches to creating informal learning zonesAndrew Middleton
Learning space development is notorious complex, costly and protracted. This presentation considers what can be done spatially and behaviourally to develop student belonging and becoming. It focuses on ways, often within the discipline, of creating a sense of place through the concept of non-formal learning and the idea of zones. A range of approaches are listed that are easy to implement and comparatively cheap.
A presentation for colleagues in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
A massive thank you to my Twitter network. I can't think of a better way to convey the value of social media than this!
Reflected refracted revoiced Kaleidoscope 2014Janice K. Jones
Concluding seminar: Dr Janice K. Jones (jonesja@usq.edu.au) with Conference Attendees
“Opening Up the Ivory Tower” Kaleidoscope Conference 29 – 30 May, 2014 Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. UK
Easy-to-adapt approaches to creating informal learning zonesAndrew Middleton
Learning space development is notorious complex, costly and protracted. This presentation considers what can be done spatially and behaviourally to develop student belonging and becoming. It focuses on ways, often within the discipline, of creating a sense of place through the concept of non-formal learning and the idea of zones. A range of approaches are listed that are easy to implement and comparatively cheap.
All or nothing: Building teaching team capacity to support the adoption of ac...Andrew Middleton
Andrew Middleton and Helen Kay
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development, Sheffield Hallam University
The workshop explored how we can better support the development of effective academic teams by recognising and acknowledging the various stages and characteristics associated with the implementation of innovative practices. Participants considered the implementation of educational development strategies aimed at developing consistently excellent learner-centred teaching across teams to improve student satisfaction. This is a challenge because innovative teachers are typically set apart from their peers as innovative champions by, for example, receiving special funding for teaching development projects or being recognised for inspirational practice individually. A shift to a learning paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) is not a matter of individual excellence but is cultural. Adopting a common philosophy requires a significant commitment from all team members, although some would argue this is not attainable (Kember & Kwan, 2000).
To background this, the facilitators will report on the CPD models (Rogers, 1995; Pundak & Rozner, 2007; Herckis, 2017).they have used to move a course team towards confident and consistent use of the problem-based pedagogies associated with SCALE-UP active learning classrooms (Beichner, 2008). We will introduce the SCALE-UP method and the challenges its adoption created for the teaching team and their students. Initially driven by a sole innovator, its implementation exposed not only the imagination and strengths within the team, but the time, teaching experience and required capacity needed for the adoption of new active learning methods.
These slides are part of the Audio Feedback Toolkit. You are free to use these resources.
Further ideas, guidance and information is available in the toolkit and elsewhere on the MELSIG site.
CAFE(Consistently active, flexible and experiential) workshopAndrew Middleton
With co-presenters: Jeff Waldock; Tim Jones; David Greenfield; David Smith; Ian Glover; Sinead O'Toole; Ciara O'Hagan; Colin Beard
Participants were invited to engage with the Spaces for Learning Toolkit prior to the workshop, specifically briefing screencasts and papers about four types of student-centred active learning approaches being developed by the University’s Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group: SCALE-UP classrooms, Stand Up Pedagogy, Technology Enabled Learning Labs, and the Immersive Think Tank Project Space.
The need for consistent taught experiences in response to student concerns about uneven learning experiences is indisputable. However, excellent teaching is flexible, being responsive to its dynamic context including the needs of students, the curriculum, signature pedagogies (Shulman, 2005), disciplinary culture, and opportunities to situate learning (Brown et al., 1989). Good innovative academic practices engage students through active, co-operative, and challenging methods (Gibbs, 2010). However, if consistency is misread as rigidity, and teaching excellence misread as teacher-centred delivery, learning may be inadvertently re-consigned to the Instruction Paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) of 19th century Industrial Age classrooms and societal demands (Scott-Webber, 2004). We must critically assess what we mean by consistently good student experiences so that our future spaces are designed to challenge and stimulate inspirational learning.
The Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group has successfully developed a range of evidence-informed spaces for student-centred active learning and is working closely with the University’s directorates to evaluate them and establish quality standards for benchmarking existing classrooms and other formal and non-formal learning spaces.
Using a pop-up Stand Up Classroom pedagogy, you will discover ‘whiteboard learning’ through collaborative problem-solving, mapping, listing and sorting type activities. You will experience the Stand Up Classroom and discover why it keeps you and your peers motivated. You will work in triads to tackle problems from the SCALE-UP classroom; and you will experience the methods of the Technology Enabled Learning Lab and the Immersive Think Thank Project Space. The future learning space, in its many forms, is a commitment to keep learning vibrant, meaningful, applied and connected. You will take away a good understanding of built pedagogy (Monahan, 2000) and how space, learning and teaching interconnect.
Participants are invited to become Future Learning Spaces group members.
Connecting the Curriculum with Civic OpportunitiesAndrew Middleton
Andrew Middleton, Charmaine Myers and Graham Holden
This presentation introduces the Venture Matrix scheme at Sheffield Hallam University, which has proven the value of developing applied learning methods in co-operation with schools and local businesses for over 10 years. Its central role is to develop real-world experience in the curriculum by introducing course leaders to civic ‘clients’ from schools and businesses in the region who can provide student groups with project briefs. Students address problems that matter by applying and developing their disciplinary knowledge and capabilities. It facilitates boundary crossing in which learning happens through a facilitation of mutually beneficial relationships. The Venture Matrix establishes a Third Space (Gutiérrez et al., 1999) by developing strong ties between civic partners and university students. Business ‘clients’ set learning problems for university students; students develop solutions; school pupils use the outcomes of student work. Each brings contextual factors that contribute to a rich immersive experience. We describe how this enhances learning and the development of student identities, and how it has inspired a large-scale integrated co-operative education model supporting student transition and success. Our question for participants is "Who owns learning the civic Third Space as the pupil becomes student and as the student becomes employer?"
Reference
Gutiérrez, K. D., Baquedano‐López, P., & Tejeda, C. (1999). Rethinking diversity: hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(4), 286-303, DOI: 10.1080/10749039909524733
A Twalk is a walk with a tweetchat. This twalk was devised to support the UK Learning Spaces Special Interest Group's first meeting which took place in Sheffield on 28th July 2017. It to the theme of Crossing Boundaries and walk structured around a series of discussion topics relating to that theme.
An outline of some of the areas of work we are undertaking at Sheffield Hallam around Future Learning Spaces. The work tends to fall into two areas:
1. student engagement and belonging
2. Student-centred active learning
Visions of the revolution: How studio pedagogy reinvents the higher education...Andrew Middleton
The principles of a hybrid learning studio
Remove hierarchy!
Autonomous and Authentic
Inductive knowledge through immersive experience
Learning-centred
Co-operative
Real world challenge and purpose
Neither formal nor informal
Experiential and Experimental
Polycontextual
Hybrid
Fluid and Adaptable
Versatile
Functional
Personal and Social
Identity and belonging
Apprentice
Communal and Networked learning
Enterprising
Private and Public-facing
Peripheral and Stage-centred
Makerspace and Immersive Thinking Space
Laboratory
Boundless
Uncertain, original, and interpreted
Open and Connected
Showcase and demonstration
Home
Constant and constantly changing
Movement and exchange
Negotiation
Navigation
Sketching and drafting
Portfolio and Performance
Accommodating the Unknown
Self-directed and Self-determined
Active and productive
Liminal and troublesome
Digital and Corporeal
Master-Apprentice
Schön’s (1985; 1987) proposition.
These cards were produced for a workshop given at the APT 2017 learning and teaching conference, University of Greenwich. They are intended to stimulate thinking about active learning and co-production in any discipline.
STUDIO FOR ALL
"studio-based learning can serve as a way for all students to learn to participate in the cultural practices of their discipline".- Schön (1985; 1987)
This is a set of cards designed to stimulate discussion about a studio-based learning paradigm. (The approach is inspired by the Vorticists and the painting is by the Voticist artist Jessica Dismore. (Apologies - the font has not travelled well). Ideas are inspired by Ray Oldenburg's idea of Third Place, and Siemen's ideas about connectivism, Schon's work on studio space, and many others
The brief presentation looks at the SCALE-UP classroom to understand structured flexible space and how this helps to understand 'portfolio space'. The context is academic CPD as a connectivist and generative learning space.
Some slides put together to support a twitter conversation - hence, they're not necessarily coherent as a standalone slideset. See other presentations here for more coherence.
From conundrum to collaboration, conversation to connection: using networks t...Andrew Middleton
Workshop for SEDA 2016
We know that networks play an important role in academic life (Moron-Garcia, 2013) especially when dealing with the “unhomeliness” (Manathunga, 2007) of life as an academic developer, working across disciplinary and professional borders. This workshop will showcase an ongoing learning space collaboration that started over a casual conversation at a network meeting sharing conundrums and developed into a wider conversation across two institutions at different stages of learning space development. Between us, we will reflect on the power of conversation (Barrett et al., 2004), practices learnt and shared and highlight the importance of building inter-professional networks within and across institutions in order to inform and guide change (Pennington, 2003). As leaders in the academy academic developers are often given the tricky institutional conundrums to solve, however the delights of our role are the opportunities to build those networks, drawing on the generosity of our various communities enabling us to ask the awkward questions (Cousin, 2013) and answer them together working as a “critical friend in the academy” (Handal, 2008).
The activity will allow us to draw on our experiences of engaging in conversations for innovation. We will reflect how our motivations and purposes are different and will change throughout a collaboration, and how we sustain or conclude our work. A number of questions will be addressed with the aim of developing further collaborations among participants, sharing knowledge and establishing that you don’t need to know what you need to know before starting the conversation:
How do you ask for help?
Who do you ask for help?
How do you build networks within and between institutions?
In this keynote for Anglia Ruskin University's Digifest 2016 I introduced the idea that a convergence of emerging digital contexts is creating a tipping point in understanding the hybrid learning space. This changes the relationships we have with our students and signals at last that digital lifewide learning shifts the balance from a teaching or content-centred paradigm to learning paradigm.
The implications are staff and students need to learning the literacies of this connectivist learning environment.
In-between dominant learning spaces: a gap in our thinking about interstitial...Andrew Middleton
#UOGAPT workshop, July 2016
#APT16 workshop - containing the outputs of the workshop on the last two slides
A profound understanding of the higher education learning space is emerging through recent works that pay more attention to the learner's experience than to creating landmark architecture. (Harrison & Hutton, 2013). The aim of the workshop is to prove that technology and media can disrupt instrumental thinking about the learning space. The workshop,
introduced the problem of learning binaries
introduced the concepts of in-between space in relation to hybrid learning, and liminality
generated and shared stories in small groups in which personal and portable digital technologies and media play a pivotal role at the intersection of formal and non-formal physical, digital hybrid learning space
concluded by devising a manifesto for liminal learning!
The session will build upon ideas of Third Space and hybridity (Gutiérrez et al., 1999), in-between space (Shortt, 2014) and liminality (Turner, 1969).
References
Daskalaki, M., Butler, C.L., & Petrovic, J. (2012). Somewhere in-between: narratives of place, identity, and translocal work. Journal of Management Inquiry, (21) 4: pp. 430-441.
Gutiérrez , K. D., Baquedano‐López, P., & Tejeda, C. (1999). Rethinking diversity: hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(4), pp. 286-303.
Shortt, H. (2014). Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work. Human Relations, 68(4), pp. 1–26.
Turner V.W. (1969). The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. Chicago: Aldine.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
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1. Walk this way... reflections on a #Twalk
Andrew Middleton, Chris Rowell, Alex Spiers, Santanu Vasant, Claire Moscop, Jeff Waldock
@andrewmid @Chri5rowell @alexgspiers @santanuvasant @Tigmoscrop @jeffwaldock
3. Introduction
• What is a Twalk?
• #Twalk Stories and Reflections
• Activity 1 - Let’s #Twalk again (15:20 precisely!)
• Activity 2 – Brainstorm: Benefits, Issues, Social Media, and Disciplines
• Conclusion
4. What is a Twalk?
Is there a #Twalker in the house?
“What is a twalk?”
5. Definition
Simply – walking, talking,
tweeting, thinking
A #twalk is a,
• structured
• multi-site
• generative
• learning walk
• and tweetchat
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Graphic definition of a Twalk
Walk, Talk, Tweet, Think
Usually, a #twalk combines a one hour learning walk with a
tweetchat made up of about 5 landmark-based discussions, with
a new discussion prompt about every ten minutes being given to
redirect the walk and its focus.
Groups in different locations follow the same walking plan at the
same time, sharing their responses to the same topics or
questions.
7. Summary of the first Twalk
• May 2017 we ran a MELSIG event at Edgehill University
• Focus: Digital Placemaking
• About: learner’s relationship with blended learning
space
• e.g. its effect on their sense of belonging, and their
agency to shape the spaces they use.
• In the middle of the day we conducted a #twalk at
Edgehill and were joined by twalking groups at 15
locations worldwide.
9. #Twalk Stories and Reflections
Santanu
• A natural way to introduce staff to learning
spaces, but in a staged way, makes for an
active academic staff development activity,
which extends before those you are
immediately with.
• Tip: Make sure you have someone tweeting
and others passing comments to them or if
you don’t have enough people, it’s better
you stop and tweet - better for the group
and for health and safety reasons too!
Walk location: City University, London
@santanuvasant
Santanu Vasant
10. #Twalk Stories and Reflections
Chris
• A Twalk gets staff to meet and discuss how
learning happens in their different
disciplines.
• Gets them to think about the informal
spaces students use to complete the
collaborative tasks set by the lecturers.
@Chri5rowell
Walk location: Regent’s University, London
Chris Rowell
11. #Twalk Stories and Reflections
Jeff
• A Twalk creates an opportunity to make
comparisons between different learning
environments
• Talking, walking and tweeting - multitasking
- is difficult
• The act of walking and talking breaks down
formality between participants resulting in
lightbulb moments that can be clarified
through the conversation and spread virally
through the group. @jeffwaldock
Walk location: Sheffield Hallam University
Jeff Waldock
12. #Twalk Stories and Reflections
Alex
• A focussed opportunity to connect people from
different academic disciplines and teams across an
institution. The Twalk tends to generate excitement
among participants as it’s different and new
• A valuable reflection opportunity for attendees to
have a fresh look at spaces that have become
overlooked or overfamiliar.
• Twalking is challenging. Common sense health and
safety advice should be shared with the group. Also
have a “twalking point” built into each area you
visit. This acts as a cue for discussion as well as a call
for action - tweet, pic, tag & share.
@alexgspiers
Walk location: Edge Hill University
Alex Spiers
13. #Twalk Stories and Reflections
Andrew:
• Walking creates a natural learning space -
people flowed between small group
conversations passing on comments from
one conversation to the next
• Walking and tweeting is challenging
cognitively and practically
@andrewmid
Walk location: Edge Hill University
Andrew Middleton
14.
15. It's 15:20 Time to Twalk
You will be given a badge with,
• your group name and role
• 2 destination numbers
• A set of instructions
• Use the #minitwalk hashtag to
communicate with other groups
during the task
Like, reply, retweet, etc
• You have 20 minutes
Activity 1 - Let’s Twalk again
Team Roles
Chief Twelf – look after the map,
read instructions, act important
Twime keeper - keep the tweam
on twack
Chief Tweeter
Take the photos, send the tweets,
follow the hashtag and respond to
other teams
16. Activity 2 - Parallel Discussion Groups
Short link: https://goo.gl/j31pzk
• Discussion 1 - Benefits of the #Twalk as a learning space
• Discussion 2 - Emerging issues
• Discussion 3 - Incorporating other social media
• Discussion 4 - Ideas for using #Twalks in any discipline
18. Keep on twalking…
The Aussie Twalk in October
Warwick University in
September
TEL Edvisers, NZ,
September
Editor's Notes
In May 2017 we ran a MELSIG event at Edgehill University which explored the idea of Digital Placemaking - the learner’s relationship with blended learning space, its effect on their sense of belonging, and their agency to shape the spaces they use.
In the middle of the day we conducted at #twalk at Edgehill and were joined by walkers at 15 locations worldwide.