So,
it’s June 2014, all you #becomingeducationalists have hopefully more or
less survived this first year – and are perhaps waiting slightly nervously for
those all too important end of year results.
We
want to say a big THANK YOU to you all! You were great. It was an
excellent year. Being with you lot formed the highlight of our week. Seriously!
On
that note – here’s a link to a great article on the importance of play: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/give-childhood-back-to-children-if-we-want-our-offspring-to-have-happy-productive-and-moral-lives-we-must-allow-more-time-for-play-not-less-are-you-listening-gove-9054433.html
We
hope that Becoming, whilst intensive,
thought-provoking and, hopefully, challenging - was also playful; that we
created space for us to ‘play to learn’. As Winnicott (1971) says – play is
vital to counter the implicit threat of those tricky transitional spaces. And –
I bet you all know about Winnicott now – eh?
We
hope that you are pleased with your results!!
Nil desperandum
Any
students who had issues preventing them from getting the work in on time – do
not despair. There is the opportunity for re-submission – and there will be
some re-sit and re-submission support in the Learning Centre, Holloway Road
Read all about
it: Blogging to Learn
Towards
the end of the year we presented our ‘Blogging to Learn’ paper in class before
presenting at the ALDinHE 2014 Conference at the University of Huddersfield
Well,
we developed elements of that presentation into an article that has been
accepted for publication in Investigations
in University Teaching and Learning. When it is actually published, we’ll
post links here.
Good luck folks
– and keep in touch!
