Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2012

It's often the simple things that improve the learning environment, and as Stephen Heppell says, better school toilets = better results. Last year I wrote about some fabulous learning spaces I had seen while visiting schools in New Zealand. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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APRIL 11, 2015

Phone charging station at Stratford Shopping Centre, London I have written extensively about education spaces, architectures for learning , and personal learning environments. Teachers should be the architects of learning spaces (Wheeler, 2015, p 102). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the online learning spotlight shone brightly on K-12 and higher education. Rightfully so, as school systems and higher education institutions across the world were scrambling to find a better online learning solution, or enhance what they already had.

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JUNE 12, 2020

It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? This means sitting down and relinquishing control of the screen to them, something some educators may find uncomfortable. But for me, it's a natural progression - a use of the tool by students to learn for themselves.

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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? Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Continued tomorrow References Bach, S., Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 14, 2017

The news created a small stir on social media, with several educators opining about what they thought of lecture theatres, their place in universities, technology, and teaching and learning in general. I also notice that in the illustration at least, there seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding about learning today.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2013

Perhaps a little farther down their agendas students are concerned about finding good learning spaces, concerns over the environment, and keeping themselves fit and healthy. I visited the University of Hasselt this week and was shown around some of its learning spaces. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. 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. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Classroom centric learning has established itself as a ''tried and tested'' method of pedagogy, and it doesn''t seem to be waning. Every organisation it seems, continues to practice this approach, and educational institutions everywhere continue to build classrooms and lecture halls along the same design. Unported License.

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MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. My fellow students and I watched avidly - I can't recall what the topic was, but I do remember the thrill of the experience - it was fresh and new to be able to watch television in a formal education setting. The future?

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MARCH 2, 2017

Most of mine have trained to be primary educators, and go on to change lives and make lives in their teaching careers. Primary Computing and ICT pathway at Plymouth Institute of Education will feature in this series of posts. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Of course you do. Those who have studied on the B.Ed

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The notion of learning spaces is gaining traction across all sectors of education. Learning spaces are not only used to describe places we can learn, but can also be representative of the human mind. And it is from our minds that the concept of learning spaces arises. Unported License.

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JULY 12, 2018

The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure.

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JULY 8, 2016

Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. Again, this is something that all educators should be aware of. Unported License.

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APRIL 23, 2013

All children have great imaginative power, but gradually this ability to imagine can be eroded as they are processed through formal education systems. In short, Robinson believes school is killing creativity. He will have great fun, but will he learn anything significant? Will he be creative? Unported License.

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APRIL 26, 2016

In yesterday's post I mentioned the Youth Media Team who featured at the ICT in Education Conference in Ireland. I also stressed how important it is to give students a voice in their own education. Students should be at the centre of the learning process - where else could they legitimately be? How do we give students a voice?

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Contact me if you're interested in hosting and have a technology supported education theme you would like to propose for #EDENchat. Photo on Pixabay Join our global #EDENchat by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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APRIL 20, 2016

We broadcast our first live learning event yesterday, where our third year students listened to a talk by innovative school leader Dave Strudwick. We are live streaming all of the keynote lectures for the next few weeks for our Visions and Values module - with a focus on educational philosophy, theory and practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

There is a door at one end, some windows on one side, and at the front end stands the teacher, in exactly the right place to direct the educational process. Situating learning in rectangular spaces naturally promotes some forms of pedagogy at the expense of others. So what happens when we change the shape of the learning space?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

Most new technologies, particularly handheld devices, lend themselves more to student led learning than they do to teacher led education. We need a new set of pedagogies (and we also need to know how these can be supported with theory) if we are to maximise the impact of technology on education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

Collaboration is where two or more people work together to achieve a common objective. In education, the common objective is usually to learn specific content, skills or competencies within defined areas. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ). Unported License.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

If school is where we prepare children to be independent, knowledgeable and reflective individuals, then we may well be doing them a disservice by perpetuating the silo mentality prevalent in state funded education. An article in the January 3rd 2014 edition of the Times Educational Supplement expresses exactly the sentiments above.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. What are the challenges of these new learning environments? What are the issues we need to address to make new learning environments a success?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2017

I left primary school thinking that he, like many others, was part of my education history, however 10 years later when I joined Plymouth University, who should be leading my specialism but Mr Yeomans! 4) What do you consider your greatest achievement to date as an educator? 5) How can we improve education? Unported License.

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APRIL 20, 2014

This leads us on to the transformations happening in education. Although physical learning spaces are still with us, more and more education is now being conducted outside of them. Photo from Wikimedia Commons From atoms to bits by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

I promised six things teachers should consider if they wish to optimise the IWB in their classrooms: Firstly, it's important that IWBs are optimally positioned within learning spaces. SMART's Learning Suite , for example, is a useful online resource that shows how educators can get the best out of their IWBs.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 25, 2014

This is number 26 in my series on learning theories. 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. As usual, this is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

In this follow-on from one of my previous posts entitled Going to the wall , I'm going to highlight some of the features we plan to incorporate into our new experimental learning space (eXSpace) at Plymouth Institute of Education. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

Clearly innovation and creativity is not one dimensional. Some of the schools on the list are considered innovative because of the way they use their learning spaces, whilst others are vaunted because of their progressive pedagogical approaches. Finally, the design of the learning spaces is creative.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 11, 2015

Instead, let me say that the ''listening but not hearing'' problem is just one of the ''gaps'' teachers and students experience just about every day in education - chasms and transactional distances that can open up between intentions of one person and misrepresentations of another. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

(re)Designing Learning Spaces for a Digital World View more presentations from Steve Wheeler My keynote speeches to academic staff at Massey University on the Palmerston North and Wellington campuses this week were accompanied by the slides above. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In other words, we enable digital and physical learning spaces in which they can freely explore ideas, argue with each other (and us) over concepts and theories and in so doing, develop their reasoning and thinking skills. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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MARCH 16, 2011

It is highly likely that more informal tools and technologies, such as handheld devices, mobile phones and games consoles will take an increasing role in formal education. But teachers and education leaders are beginning to realise that there is a huge untapped potential in today's personal technologies. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2016

The idea of lifelong learning only dawned on me during my time training to be a teacher. It also hadn't occurred to me that most of my later education came from informal learning - because I was interested, I went the extra mile and studied more widely than my job, or my degree required. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2016

The idea of lifelong learning only dawned on me during my time training to be a teacher. It also hadn't occurred to me that most of my later education came from informal learning - because I was interested, I went the extra mile and studied more widely than my job, or my degree required. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 25, 2011

This is actually quite an interesting question and if we had had time to answer it, I would have said something along these lines: The question acknowledges the direct interest parents have over their children's education, and reminds teachers of the need to keep parents informed of their children's progress. Unported License.

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