Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. When it has happened in the past, I have asked myself how I can make my sessions more engaging.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler Recently I posted a challenge in response to a question about lack of student engagement. I blogged this in that previous post: One of the remedies for lack of engagement is to present students with a wicked problem to solve, or an irresistible question to answer. It was to solve an unGoogleable question.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2015

For the uninitiated, #blimage (blog-image) is a game we started to encourage learning professionals to blog. At the end of your blog post you then challenge some of your friends with another image, of your own choice. Several people on Twitter have asked recently for images they can use for the #blimage challenge.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 or the ‘social web’. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

One of the characteristics of Web 2.0, As far as Tim O'Reilly is concerned, Web 2.0 This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0. The Machine is Us/ing Us , which shows how web tools work better the more people use them. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. This is a repost from my 2009 blog series on the same subject. New York: The Free Press.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2014

You can trawl the Web (using your PLE tools) and discover many videos, websites and blogs that focus largely on PLEs and their place in education. Photo by Adib Wahab This time it''s personal by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. As such, the country has made access to the Web free and easy to use for everyone. What has been and what is yet to come by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

If we can search for and find just about any knowledge on the web these days, the key question must be: what is left that we cannot search for? In future blog posts I intend to explore each of these and draw out some important principles about how we are living our lives, and learn about our world, in this century. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Once such person was Melissa Highton , who as Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, is in a unique position to shape the future learning and research practices of a generation of scholars. Listen in as we discuss these and many more ideas about the future of learning and education. Unported License.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 28, 2015

Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog. I add him to my list of selfies and photos for many reasons (here we are larking about on the Barcelona Metro). He is a true champion of web democracy, and he practising what he preaches by sharing all his content and resources freely. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2012

Many blogs, videos, photos, tweets (at the time of writing almost 20,000 in less than 3 full days - here's the complete archive ) and other content has been created throughout over the course of the conference. Others too, will be busy writing their blogs as they reflect on three extraordinary days. Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Photo from Pixabay Or in other words. It was always thus, but in the age of the web, smartphones, social media and connections at the speed of thought, the dumbing down of content and the spreading of lies seems to be accelerating. That's my response to a lot of news headlines these days. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. I will offer some examples of how Web 2.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

When I write a blog post for example, I am creating new content as I write, and then in turn, that content may reveal to me something I may have missed if I had not written the post. The blog content allows me perhaps to view a problem from a different perspective. There are many other ways to create content besides the blog of course.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Many are prolific and proficient in producing blogs, podcasts, videos and photos for sharing on the web. Social media tools such as blogs and video sharing sites facilitate this process, but on a global scale. They can do it all using the simple smartphone in their pocket. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Now that is all about to change, as we advance into the next phase of Web evolution. In a recent blog post , Jamillah Knowles wrote that a revolution is about to begin where the objects in our homes and workplaces will become smarter, more context aware, and will be able to interpret data fed to them, before taking action.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2015

Ultimately, it's great to see how people are enjoying blogging about education, sharing their ideas, having fun with images, discussing their interpretations and generally connecting with each other in new ways. Some educators are now blogging for the first time. You never know where it might lead you! Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Often I share those ideas and outcomes on this blog. I recall once being approached by a teaching in South Africa who was keen to tell me that my SILVER standard model for web site evaluation really worked in her classrooms, and was enriching the learning of her students. Eventually I try some of these ideas out with my students.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

As can be seen in previous post s on this blog, I have worked for just over 40 years in educational technology and have been witness to many astounding developments, including the introduction of personal computers, the Web and smart phones. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Last year I wrote extensively about learning using Web 3.0 0 , which after much discussion across the network, was renamed the eXtended Web. Later I suggested in a presentation in London that we should call it the Smart eXtended Web, due to the high profile smart mobiles will undoubtedly play in the future of learning.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2013

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the future of learning and technology. In my previous blog post I examined the debate about whether we are becoming more intelligent or less intelligent as a result of our prolonged and habituated uses of technology. and Wilson, B. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Vlogging - or video blogging - has been a growing trend, especially among the twenty-something age group, and is defining itself as a new genre of self expression in the digital ecology. Photo by Petar Miloševi? One slide in particular resonated with me, and that was her notes on vlogging. 6 - Vlogs are hard to plagiarise.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2015

Increasing numbers of high profile academics (such as danah boyd and Martin Weller for example) are turning their backs on traditional methods of research dissemination, publishing their work exclusively on free-to-read open access platforms or on their blogs. for a growing number of academics the benefits of blogging outweigh the drawbacks.

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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2012

In it, they represented a number of perspectives on personal learning environments, including a discussion on the differential between institutionally managed Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) and the free tools that learners are now using on the web. Just saying.) Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. We start with the question.how will technology help to shape the future of Higher Education? The Design of Everyday Things. London: The MIT Press. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The last two decades alone have seen a rapid rise in popularity of the World Wide Web, smartphones, social media, social networks, augmented reality, wearable technologies and user generated content sites. Further details will be posted about the schedule on this blog and also on the EDEN NAP website later. Unported License.

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Marcia Conner

MARCH 28, 2013

In addition to an activity stream, similar to Twitter or Facebook, G+ also offers Hangouts which are easy-to-set-up video chats that can be recorded and posted on the web and G+ Communities that are groups requiring permission from the group owner to join. WordPress.org – My favorite blog platform.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog. I first read Being Digital during the emergent years of the Web, when we were all discovering for ourselves how our lives would be shaped through technology. He duly obliged and his autograph added greater value to what was already one of my prized possessions. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 3, 2015

For those who are housebound for example, and cannot visit a library or classroom, the Web provides a storehouse of endless opportunities to learn just about any topic. The social web opens up channels to connect with other people around the world, either experts or fellow students. Technology can do this. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2013

The web, they argue is capable not only of informing us of any knowledge or content we need, but can also change the way we learn, enabling us to search wider, perform personal research, and engage with the content in a rich social environment where peer learning occurs. Photo from Public Domain Images All just a click away?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At the time, I was doing a lot with some basic web design, and thought it would be fun to work with students on some basic HTML and CSS principles. They both do the same thing: allow you to prototype some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in one window while giving a preview of the output as it appears on the web.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 18, 2015

The same can be said for the participative Web. Blogging has evolved into a very expressive form of writing, and clearly exploits the immediacy of social interaction that was unknown before social media. Blogging is disruptive in that it changes the way we construct and present our ideas, and the way we interact with our readership.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2015

The arrival of the Internet, and subsequently the Web brought interactive content to the desk top, and the introduction and rapid adoption of mobile technologies allowed students to access content any time, and just about any place. Knowledge can be negotiated using open repository systems such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2015

Reflecting back on their time at university is made easier because of the blogs and other digital artefacts they have left in their trail. Chris Nesbitt's blog is a wonderful example of how students can gain a deeper understanding of theory by writing about it online in front of a potentially worldwide audience of readers.

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