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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

They must also investigate theories critically, because if they simply accept a theory as 'truth', they may be leading their entire classroom down a blind alley. I would be interested to hear from other teacher educators about what approaches you use and whether you see any value in what we are doing with our bear pits.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Educators need to understand this when they teach online. What's more, they are placed into the context of online learning, digital pedagogy, social and psychological theory and teaching in the technology enabled world of the virtual classroom. It will take less than an hour for you to complete, and you don't pay a penny.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

What will be the future of school classrooms? It is unlikely that we will see the demise of the classroom in the next decade. Those who study the future of education often suggest that the demise of traditional classrooms is not only inevitable, but imminent. Is he right? As ever, your comments on this blog are welcome.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

It has featured regularly in keynote speeches, articles and texts about the future of education. The image captures his thought of what a school classroom might look like at the turn of the millennium. This is analagous of a problem that exists to this day in our education systems. Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

this short series on what I will call 'narrative pedagogy'* I want to explore some of the storytelling techniques that can be adapted for use in education. I sometimes use a rather dangerous demonstration in the classroom to explore visual perception. My use signifies how storytelling devices can be applied to everyday pedagogy.

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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. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Image by Glamhag on Flickr Large screen touch displays seem to be the 'Cinderella technology' of education. And yet, there are also many who have missed the opportunity to leverage the power and potential of IWBs in the classroom. So, how can educators tap into the powerful affordances of the interactive whiteboard?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Yet many education systems have failed to accept this reality. The educational theorist and humanist Carl Rogers once wrote that we should aim to foster 'a climate of trust in the classroom in which curiosity and the natural desire to learn can be nourished and enhanced' (Rogers, 1983). 1993) Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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APRIL 19, 2015

No, you can be assured that if I use any technology with my students, it is for a clearly thought through, and logical reason that supports good pedagogy. My education students are usually in year cohorts of about 180 students. The backchannel is an ideal medium for them to engage with people outside the classroom too.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. Games based learning (GBL) has yet to gain a strong foothold in formal education spaces, but there are already some signs of success. The 21st Century is the ludic century.

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APRIL 16, 2014

It was not until social theories such as Vygotsky''s social constructivist model were introduced that education as a whole began to capitalise on the dialogic power of learning. Indeed, the Zone of Proximal Development and other social pedagogy models were largely unheard of in the West before the 1970s. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts. The classroom is no longer the unique centre of learning, based on information delivery through a lecture."

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. Games based learning (GBL) has yet to gain a strong foothold in formal education spaces, but there are already some signs of success. The 21st Century is the ludic century.

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Kadenze

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kadenze is pleased to launch a new course – Introduction to Psychology – and welcomes a new partner – Wesleyan University – to our online creative education platform. Why are digital skills relevant for contemporary education and critical to diversity, equity and inclusion? This course takes a different approach.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2014

Most teachers by now will be aware of the concept of the flipped classroom. Instruction takes place outside the classroom and discussion follows in the classroom. Flipped classrooms generally take advantage of technology for off campus learning while maximising the presence of the teacher for discursive and iterative activities.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. In my follow-up post, I posed a key question for teachers to answer if they wished to become successful online educators. This strategy didn't work. Unported License.

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APRIL 27, 2020

It's also a shout out to the teachers, the school staff, nursery workers and others who look after and educate our young people, week in, week out, whatever else is going on in the world. The pandemic has compelled educators to teach at a distance in many instances, and the scramble to find solutions has been frenetic. It's not easy.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods. At Plymouth Institute of Education we have been using a number of classroom technologies, but perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the SMART Interactive Whiteboard.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Using technology in the classroom and integrating technology for learning are two different things. The first is something that any teacher can do without much thinking, but to truly integrate technology into education takes a great deal of imagination, thinking and planning. education learning pedagogy strategy Technology'

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MARCH 24, 2014

Today, the idea of flipping the classroom is a familiar one. A little history: Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann developed the term ''flipped classroom'' by considering the time spent by teachers with their students in classroom. education flipped classroom flipped roles learning pedagogy school teaching Technology'

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JUNE 4, 2018

Photo by David Goehring on Flickr In my last post, entitled Cinderella Technology , I wrote about the tremendous potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and highlighted some of the reasons why it often fails to be realised in school classrooms. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The latter is inevitable, because BETT is a free-entry event, and someone has to pay to make sure the four day education show happens. Yes, BETT 2019 definitely featured more robots than just about any other educational technology. Perhaps the most impressive of the range of educational robots on offer was the unit pictured above.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Managing information for education can be a thorny problem. Popular MIS platforms include iSAMS, Arbor, Go4 Schools and RM Education. The MIS featured in this post is Integris , designed by RM Education. Education professionals are busy people and need to be able to use systems with minimum fuss and delay.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In previous posts I articulated some thoughts on how technology can (and should) be integrated into education. Ultimately, technology should be integrated into education so that learning can be transformed. One example is when classrooms began to be equipped with interactive whiteboards (IWBs). Unported License.

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APRIL 26, 2019

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. He patiently listened to what I had to say, thanked me for my time, and then took the video cassette, walked into the classroom and played it in its entirety anyway. I was appalled.

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

So I posed a question on Twitter for my professional learning network: The responses came thick and fast, from educators across the globe. In short, many teachers saw a need to change pedagogy. Naomi Barnes , a Brisbane educator zeroed in on homework as outmoded. Very few were about technology. and interactive whiteboards.

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MARCH 29, 2020

The stand out offering is the Joe Wicks video which purports to offer PE education to children everywhere. Education The number of education institutes suddenly scrambling to adopt online learning would be comical if it wasn't against such a serious, tragic background. well, tens of thousands. It's a funny old world isn't it?

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JUNE 11, 2016

In particular, I built upon my recent blog series on narrative pedagogies, including a discussion around the use of literary devices in the classroom. There were discussions around blogging, animations and social media tools and their use in education. Unported License.

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MARCH 9, 2014

Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In my most recent post I outlined the first part of the SAMR model , which I used as a lens to explore the integration of new technologies into education. The first two levels, substitution and augmentation are often referred to as low levels of technology integration, in as much as they do not substantially impact upon or transform pedagogy.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Our influence as educators can be very powerful. Success or failure often depends on the level of passion we invest in our pedagogy and the belief we have in education. It doesn't matter how good your resources are, or whether you have a great classroom environment. Anyway, teaching can be a bit like cupid's bow.

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JUNE 28, 2012

In 1970, sociologist Alvin Toffler predicted: ' Within thirty years, the educational systems of the United States, and several Western European countries as well, will have broken decisively with the mass production pedagogy of the past, and will have advanced into an era of educational diversity based on the liberating power of the new machines.'

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Many would agree that a lot needs to be done to bring education up to date. Some advocate the flipped learning approach and to a certain extent, the transfer of content delivery from the classroom to the home (or elsewhere) makes a lot of sense. Unported License. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In my last post I discussed Daniel S Christian''s three trends of an emerging pedagogy. I speculated on whether a new social divide might also emerge as a result of the new pedagogy he outlines. In some sectors of education this may be more easily achieved than it is in others. Unported License.

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APRIL 16, 2020

I designed the series with teachers in mind, especially those who have been compelled by the recent crisis to migrate all of their teaching to online and technology supported education. It can't be easy to suddenly have to change tack and teach from a distance, especially if all you've ever known is a classroom. Unported License.

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JULY 15, 2014

It takes a number of forms, including language use, acceptable behaviour, approaches to learning, power structures and the inevitable age differential, but the most visible gap is around the perception of how technology can be used in the classroom. This is not capitulation, it''s common sense. Here''s the link to the video.

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