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Twitter in the classroom

Learning with e's

If I wanted to hide behind technology, I would stay at home, and use my laptop and ''death by PowerPoint'' to lecture to my students from a safe distance. During the lectures, I encourage students to interact with each other and the speakers by using Twitter as a backchannel. Twitter continues to be a versatile tool for good pedagogy.

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Flipping the teacher

Learning with e's

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. The age old seminar is a great flipping method. He was furious. This is not new of course.

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Opening Pandora's box

Learning with e's

To all intents and purposes, what went on inside the classroom stayed inside the classroom. New technologies have the potential to undermine the 'sanctity of the classroom' as they open up what is said and done for the world to see. All of these can be seen as positive spin offs of lecture capture. Others are ambivalent.

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The big switch

Learning with e's

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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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Participants can join in and leave at any time, as the rolling programme of keynotes, discussions, panels and seminars/workshops plays out in real time on screen. It could be said that where multimedia brought the world into the classroom, so smart mobiles took the classroom back into the world. So what next? Unported License.

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We learn by teaching

Learning with e's

Every student brings their own unique knowledge and experiences into the classroom, and it's impossible for 'experts' to know everything. How many of us have sat through a lecture or conference presentation, and have been afraid to ask a question because it might make us look stupid? If you want them to learn, get them to teach.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

In UK higher education we tend to be more interested in transforming learning with digital technology than replicating the traditional teacher-centred approaches that are typified by the centrality of the lecture to the curriculum. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Free Articulate & Moodle Seminars in Boston and Ch.

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