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WeRNotVirus: plays to highlight Covid-19 racism against Asians theguardian.com/world/2020/may…

As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence is coming from theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thomas Laqueur · While Statues Sleep · LRB 18 June 2020 lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…

How I’m Spending My Pandemic Summer Vacation - The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com/article/How-I-…

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

We're delighted to share these resources for #RemoteResearch, curated by my colleague Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira, designed originally to support our undergraduates who are being forced to reformulatr their dissertations due to #COVID19 #AcademicTwitter - docs.google.com/document/d/1Oe…

Practicing some more - decided to sketch a paper - and chose this new one by Kay Sambell and Sally Brown (link below)...I hope they like it, but given their expertise, I am expecting constructive feedback :)

A1. using lego to get students building and storying as a way of discussing readings on urban division; zines as an assessment to encourage students to craft accounts of fieldwork and think about ethics of knowledge making and sharing #LTHEchat

A2 walking - using walks to encourage learners to spend time away from a screen and responding to the world around them #LTHEchat

A3 More zines. Seems more important than ever to time to go analogue and craft something. Also enjoying using padlet to bring in different voices, perspectives and examples #LTHE

A4. Frantic...it's been a long day and I'm novice tweeter! #LTHEchat

Q5. Time to build up confidence and reinforcing purpose and value of creative activities #LTHEchat

Q.6 Super important...with everything that's happening marking learning playful, fun and social seems like an effective way of engaging students #LTHEchat

Daniel successfully defended his PhD “Enabling Assemblages” today (& received a special Dr badge). ⁦A big thankyou to his examiners ⁦[email protected]⁩ & ⁦Tim Cresswell🏳️‍⚧️⁩. His PhD parents are very proud. ⁦Dan Swanton,⁩ Daniel Muñoz Zech⁩

In this post, Dan Swanton describes the development of a hybrid field course for Year 3 students on the Masters of Geography programme. This alternative approach opened up practices of participation and observation, and innovative ways of study in the field teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/a-local-altern…

Teaching with Lego: The University of Edinburgh’s Dan Swanton explains how using #Lego to demonstrate and apply lessons in class promotes play and interaction that leads to better engagement and peer discussion as part of active learning design #THECampus bit.ly/3tajLZ6

A short thing I've written about teaching with Lego: timeshighereducation.com/campus/teachin… via Times Higher Education

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