‘Joining the dots: making connections by drawing from the slow movement in the classroom’ was presented at the Imperial Festival of Learning and Teaching in May 2022. This post will introduce the slow movement and slow ideology, and show how this might inspire thinking and talking about making connections in the classroom, scaffolding those moments of connection and relating connectedness to learning. Continue Reading
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Practical steps to create a positive and inclusive feedback culture in the classroom
How do we embed practical feedback processes into the Change Makers classroom(s)? Continue Reading
Making teams work for students…
… instead of making students work in teams. Read about how we tried a different approach to team work in one of our modules this year.
Continue ReadingFeedback – closing the circle
In Change Makers, we put a lot of effort and time into constructing critical, engaging and empowering feedback for students. However, perhaps now is the time to shift our focus away from the construction of this feedback and onto the subsequent deconstruction by students.
Continue ReadingIntroducing ‘Evoke (y)our authentic’
Having graduated on 1st January 2022, my PhD thesis is now freely available to download from Spiral. This is not your traditional thesis – but it is an easy, accessible and fun read. Continue Reading
Art and Design at Engineering Finals
Our Global Village students impressed with their artwork and sustainable designs at the recent Engineering for People Design Challenge Grand Finals. Continue Reading
The Change Makers lockdown learning experience (so far)
Explore this series of posts to find out how we have transformed our Change Makers modules to make them pandemic-proof. Continue Reading
Student Artwork Featured at National Event
We are delighted that our student artwork was displayed at a national event recently.
How do you make assessment criteria more student-centred? Co-create it with the students…
The last time I set an assignment for students in my class, I did something different. Continue Reading
The writing’s on the … table?
We’ve been lucky enough to use a flexible new learning space on campus. How has it been working out?