{"id":293,"date":"2009-09-13T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-09-13T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T10:42:19","slug":"wonder-boxes-of-learning-delight-and-cabinets-of-curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Boxes of learning delight and cabinets of curiosities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew McFall of Nottingham University spoke at ALT-C 2009 about learning with wonder for wonderful learning.<\/p>\n<p>His key words for ways into wonder included mirrors, puzzles, magic, clews (the thread Perseus used to help him through the Minotaur&#8217;s labyrinth), interest, mercury and enchantment.<\/p>\n<p>His boxes of delight are used to collect conceptions of wonder, to collect wondrous things, to share wonder with others, to support a quest for wonder and to help to build a wonder wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cabinet-of-curiosities.png\" title=\"cabinet-of-curiosities.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cabinet-of-curiosities.png\" alt=\"cabinet-of-curiosities.png\" height=\"359\" width=\"464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew McFall of Nottingham University spoke at ALT-C 2009 about learning with wonder for wonderful learning. His key words for ways into wonder included mirrors, puzzles, magic, clews (the thread Perseus used to help him through the Minotaur&#8217;s labyrinth), interest, mercury and enchantment. His boxes of delight are used to collect conceptions of wonder, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}