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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. Like many inside and outside the education system in the United States and globally, the cry for equity has been bellowed for years. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. OER for Precedent. Our system is broken.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

We all need inspiration, and many would argue that we perform better as educators when we have passion. We need to see education for what it is - the means to draw out the best from children and give them the best preparation to thrive in the world. Unported License. I develop it and apply it to my own professional context.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. My last post explored Donald Norman''s ideas around perception and the design of every day objects. 1980) Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. Unported License.

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JUNE 13, 2013

June, who is at the Norwegian Business School will be presenting a keynote speech tomorrow at the event on ''Disruptive Education.'' She has some strong views on how education needs to be changed, and believes that disruption is necessary to challenge the current paradigms of teaching in higher education. Unported License.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Image from Carpe Diem I was sent a pre-publication copy of Cathy Davidson's new book The New Education recently, to review. She is a doyen of the progressive education movement, and her ideas are far reaching and influential. the teacher's authority, the broadcast model of pedagogy - all the components of higher education.'

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AUGUST 30, 2017

It has featured regularly in keynote speeches, articles and texts about the future of education. The illustration really depicts education as it would have been in 1910, with a teacher as the gatekeeper of knowledge, and with the students as passive recipients of that knowledge once it was released. Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Eventually I try some of these ideas out with my students. Often I share those ideas and outcomes on this blog. It's gratifying when people listen to these ideas, try them out and then come back to tell me how well they have worked. I know that many teachers reblogged the ideas, in many languages around the world.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Educators need to understand this when they teach online. Digital identity by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. It will take less than an hour for you to complete, and you don't pay a penny.

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APRIL 21, 2018

From my experience working in all sectors of education and training, I claimed that the most likely sector to innovate with new learning technologies would be primary education. There are clearly more factors to consider than these as barriers to the adoption of new ideas and innovation, but this is a good start.

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JUNE 14, 2020

All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Asynchronous communication is time-shifted - e-mail, text messages and standard mail (correspondence courses were one of the first forms of distance education). Unported License.

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JUNE 13, 2020

Next time, I'll discuss asynchronous forms of distance education, but in this post we'll look at synchronous modes. When we think about synchronous distance education, we normally visualise video conferencing using tools such as Zoom , MS Teams, Collaborate, Google Meet or FaceTime. Unported License.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Since then, several have asked me what I mean by remix culture, and how it applies to education. However, in formal education settings, remixing is sometimes seen as undesirable. If instead they paraphrase the ideas of another and cite the source, it is research and is considered acceptable. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Are you a connected educator? Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) has a lot to say about the connected educator. They are transparent in their thinking, he suggests, and that means that they are not shy in sharing their ideas or giving away their content for free.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

She has done the hard miles as an educator and has innovated along the way, continuing to share her knowledge and her ideas freely among the global education community. She is bent on achieving global action around the use of technologies in education. Unported License.

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JUNE 12, 2020

International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Photo by Steve Wheeler Engaging online learners 1 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Wheeler, S.

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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? Unported License.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Third comes Explanation - here they describe in deeper terms their ideas and provide other group members with more detail. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. Unported License. They may for example, elaborate on why their 'gold dust resources' are so useful.

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MAY 24, 2020

Blended is simply a crazy idea that learning can occur anywhere, in both formal and informal contexts, inside school and outside of it, using a mix of technology - as and when it suits. I wish I'd been clever enough to think of such a novel idea. Unported License , or so we are told. But it could be. No, scrub that.

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JANUARY 11, 2015

What will educators do in the future? Certainly, people''s perceptions of education seem to be changing. They suggest that the future of education will see learning located in any place, with technology mediating all forms of communication. However, there are elements of education that remain constant. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I spoke about Open Educational Practices, (including Open Educational Resources and Open Scholarship) a subject which I am learning more about all the time as the movement grows and gains traction. Tags: creative commons Open content OER Google MOOC OEP open scholarship. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Image by Glamhag on Flickr Large screen touch displays seem to be the 'Cinderella technology' of education. Teachers are incredibly busy, have increasingly difficult workloads to contend with, and have little time to spend experimenting with new ideas. Unported License. Cinderella technology?

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JANUARY 27, 2020

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 In Pieces is quite simply one of the best pieces of educational software I've encountered over the last decade, and I don't say that lightly. Unported License.

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JUNE 11, 2020

International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Engaging online learners 2 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Wheeler, S.

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MAY 12, 2019

He produces programmes about social trends and culture and is particularly passionate about alternative education. We discussed a range of topics around my new book Digital Learning in Organisations, and focused on new technologies in education and training. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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MARCH 12, 2018

Image from Pexels Two recent articles have prompted a flurry of commentary on social media around the quality of learning in higher education. The first, from the Times Higher Education Supplement was entitled 'Academics fail to change teaching due to fear of looking stupid'. It's a complicated business, higher education.

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APRIL 12, 2011

I guess it's timely, because I travel to Hamburg tomorrow to keynote the German Moodlemoot conference (#mootDE11n) on Thursday, and one of the key themes of my speech will be 'do it yourself' education, the ethos of edupunk. Open Scholarship is a way of life, based on the belief that to share your ideas is much better than to hoard them.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? Another method is to get students to use the board to present their ideas. This means sitting down and relinquishing control of the screen to them, something some educators may find uncomfortable. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. I consider myself a global educator and have tried to articulate my ideas on why this is a different role to traditional teaching. Unported License. Unported License.

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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). Charleston, SC: Education Futures.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

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. Embedding technology so that it becomes transparent is clearly an aim to which all educators should aspire. Unported License. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

Reading Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz has been fascinating. Her key message is simple - that education needs to change to make it more accessible to those who want to, but cannot afford to enter into full time higher education. High ideals indeed.

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

I'm always seeking new ideas and content for my next blog. This means that I try to be actively engaged with everything I do and see as I hunt for new images, methods, projects and ideas that can be used for education contexts. Unported License. When you write regularly, you're always on the look out for new content.

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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. The Cult of Categorisation is very strong because it adopts ideas that are convenient. Unported License. It extends to generational distinctions.

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JULY 9, 2019

Amy had earlier attended Blackawton Primary School in South Devon, under the headship of visionary educator Dave Strudwick. The research was based on the question: What do science and play have in common? Other schools are now adopting these ideas, and several have set up apiaries for keeping bees. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

He came up with a weird idea in the 1930s that we're still trying to figure out today. Schrödinger needed to explain his complex idea simply so that even simple folk like you and I could understand it. There is also indeterminacy in education. Unported License. Not many people understood his theories. So you're stuffed.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Another example comes from Richard Gerver (a former headteacher, and now author and speaker) who posted: 2019 has to be the year we spend our time celebrating what we have in common: A year of collaboration, catalysing a new human renaissance. We need a lot more humanity in our businesses and education systems. Unported License.

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