Reflections on our learning spaces
Click on the link below to see the Miro Board and the Student Photos of Learning Spaces.
(Once you’ve had a look, please return to the blog and listen)
Now please press play:
Distance students, we find, need their own version of the ‘certainties’ of bounded, campus space, while at the same time relishing their immersion in the networked, fluid and fire spaces of the online mode
References:
Bayne, S., Gallagher, M.S., & Lamb, J. (2014). Being ‘at’ university: the social topologies of distance students. Higher Education, 67(5), pp. 569-583
Nordquist, J., Laing, A. (2015). Designing spaces for the networked learning landscape
Flint, T., Hall, L., Stewart, F. & Hagan, D. (2018). Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children. Digital Creativity, 29, pp. 191-207
Tom Flint and James Lamb discussing Jupiter Artland and Minecraft
The audio provides a really clear and cogent set of reflections on the learning spaces of the course as presented on the Miro board. The points on ‘mobilities and moorings’ and the materialities of online learning. The Minecraft ‘digression’ of the sociability of Minecraft and the interaction with Valentin while he was on the ferry was a great example of hybridity and the merging of digital and ‘real’ life. The window frame is an interesting one in mirroring the border of the screen – both as windows to enter a ‘other’ fluid world. So it sounds like you got a lot from that relatively simple activity of photographing your learning spaces. Rather than looking at the miro board and then listening to your podcast, I had the podcast running while looking over the board and that works really well. Another good post and insightful reflections on the week’s activities.