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What students need

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Children need a great deal of support throughout their learning journey. Arguably one of children's most important needs is to know how well they are doing (Gardner, 2012) and this is where assessment for learning can play a key role. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. References Blatchford, P.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

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Those learning experiences can take place in a variety of settings: in-school, out-of-school, on the job, and more. Since instructional designers develop so many types of resources—like eLearning courses, instructors’ manuals for classroom use, learning games, training courses for use in workplaces—there are always new skills to pick up.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." 2008) Tribes. London: Piatkus.

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Schools and online education

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Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. We now need to think about learning environments rather than simply 'classrooms'. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Digital tribes and the network nation

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Howard Rheingold (2002) applies this ‘theory of being’ to the use of short message service (SMS) texting by young people – who they send texts to, and receive them from, defines an element of their social identity, as constructed by themselves in relation to the others in their SMS circle of communication. New York: Doubleday.Rheingold, H.

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Learning on the move

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It was nice to be invited to present a session for Sheffield Hallam University on mobile learning earlier today. Mobile learning is going to be very big indeed. Where to start with a subject such as mobile learning? It's interesting, because what we see here is a form of mobile learning without a mobile device.

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Winter is here

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The sudden increase in births from 2002 onwards is largely responsible for this trend, and this was an expected rise. Winter is here by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.