Learning with e's

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Education has been described as the social transmission of this learning to younger generations. So what of our habitual use of digital media? Do these constitute a digital habitus? Does the digital trail we leave online represent any part of our real lives? This discourse is highly relevant in the context of education.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We got on just fine because we discovered that we have a lot in common, not least of which was that we both did formal training as photographers, in the pre- digital age. The skills we had to acquire back in the day were different to the skills now required to manipulate and produce photographs in the digital age.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. There are thousands of blogs dedicated to education in the UK, and many of them have great content that can inspire, inform or challenge. Unported License.

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APRIL 5, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler It wasn't that long ago that I was approached by a new U.S. based online education platform called ZilLearn to ask me if I would like to write some courses. My first module is live now and can be found at this link and also in the embedded image below. Keep safe, keep well and keep your distance.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

If students are relying increasingly on digital technology to connect them with content, peers and tutors, and to facilitate new, distributed forms of learning, then we should endeavour to assess the learning they achieve in a relevant manner. Photo by Steve Wheeler A growing divide? Unported License.

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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. 2006) Literacy and Education: Understanding the new literacy studies in the classroom.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Photo by Loewe Technologies on unsplash There's plenty of hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential, future impact on society. And in education, it is barely present. At present, the golden touchstone is in personalised learning, where anytime, anyplace education is possible through mobile technologies.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 28, 2014

His mention of the Substrate-Autonomous Person got me thinking about what possible applications should could have for education in the future. So, for a biospheric environment, the person would use a biological body, for the Metaverse, a person would use an avatar, and for virtual reality, the person would use a digital form.

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Learning with e's

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. Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. Please post them in the comments box below.

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JULY 8, 2016

Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. Helen said that digital capability is the capacity to thrive in digital environments. Again, this is something that all educators should be aware of. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The most important task now for all teachers everywhere, is to firstly begin to appreciate the huge potential these tools and technologies can have on education.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Andras Vas on unsplash Previous posts in this series have highlighted the importance of human intelligence and emotion in education. AI is not about replacing the human with a robot, it is about taking the robot out of the human" says Usama Fayyad, and this will prove to be a key theme in the future of AI enhanced education.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Postmodernist views of society can be appropriated as lenses to analyse the personalised use of digital technology. Again, this is reminiscent of the random searching, scanning and jumping around content through hyperlinking that learners participate in when they traverse the digital landscape. Cormier, D. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Photo by Airina Volungevi?ien? My opening keynote speech at the 29th annual EDEN conference at VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, Belgium earlier this week was given the title Connected pedagogies - Learning and teaching in the digital age. These are presented at the very end of my keynote. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Our most recent #EDENchat focused on digital competencies and digital literacies, and the conversation was dynamic and fast moving. I have already written extensively about digital literacies and have presented several keynotes at international conferences where it features heavily. Related posts What digital literacies?

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Learning with e's

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? Technology will need to become more ‘transparent’ (Wheeler, 2005).

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler No, this is not some new discovery about the evolutionary development of snakes - nor is it a reptile dysfunction. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. Python's got legs! Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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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Learning with e's

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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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

One of the most important digital divides to overcome is the technophobia divide - the wills and the will nots. What do you think are the key elements schools need to address in a digital strategy? cyberbullying education esafety learning procurement schools strategy teacher training Technology' Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Over the next few academic years I predict that submitting assignments in alternative digital formats will become the norm. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Digital assignments: How shall we grade them? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

Photo from Pixabay This series is about how teachers can improve engagement for online learners (see links below for previous posts in the series). All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

I am a learning technologist based at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia where I have been based for four years. With more than 75 percent of students studying via distance or online, our delivery of external education resources continues to be a major priority of our university.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

The idea of discovery learning also originates with Piaget, and has provided some powerful, but at times contentious pedagogical practices in primary education. Learners with digital technology can discover for themselves, and drive their own learning, but it will be less structured than formal educational processes.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2019

Photo by Marshall Henrie on Wikimedia Commons My keynote speech at the nextEd2019 conference in Lisbon was titled 'Personalising learning in the digital age'. Personal and personalised learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Lisbon, Portugal and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2017

All students should receive the best possible education with varied experiences regardless of what kind of 'learning style' we might assume describes them. We might as well return to the dark ages when people still believed there were dragons, unicorns and digital natives. The result is below, watch out for the most excellent typo!

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Photo from Pxhere I had the pleasure to do an speak with Sophie Bailey recently, when we recorded a session for Edtech Podcast. An apple for teacher by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Have a listen. Unported License.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The Internet of Things , when it arrives (and some would claim it is already here) will introduce a new global digital infrastructure that features, among other things, ubiquitous sensors. More importantly, how will educators exploit the potential of these new garments? Maverick educators will take a different approach.

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MAY 12, 2019

David and me in the studio - Photo by Steve Wheeler David Hamr is a well known Czech broadcaster and radio journalist. He produces programmes about social trends and culture and is particularly passionate about alternative education. We talked about the implications of this and several alternative approaches to education.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. Changing Times It is now time to take stock.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning. I firmly believe that educators, as far as possible, should share their content as widely and feely as possible. million views). Is sharing caring?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education. Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Continued tomorrow References Bach, S.,

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It was a distinct honour to be invited to keynote, and I spoke on one of my favourite (and probably most dangerous) of topics - the future of education. In my slides (which as I write have topped 110,000 views on SlideShare) I mention the four trends that have been recognised in educational technology in the last 30 years.

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Learning with e's

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.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 16, 2016

And that is exactly the approach we should be taking in educational technology. In this blog series on 'Our Digital Future' I plan to explore new and predicted technologies and discuss their possible practical impact on the future of education. The future for our schools, colleges and universities is just as indeterminate.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

This is the fifth and final part of my short series of posts on the future of higher education. Younger students who entered higher education in 2008 were the first students who had grown up in a world in which connection to the internet had always been there. Unported License. Unported License. Unported License.

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