Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler The feature that most impressed me within the Python In Pieces architecture is its dual (split) column screen, one containing blocks similar to programs such as Scratch , and the other hosting the raw Python code (see the image above). Unported License. It's the way we learn just about all of our everyday skills.

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Mindflash

MARCH 23, 2010

It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand bullet points, and this is particularly true of training. Training designs are at their most engaging when words AND pictures work together to drive home the message. Hint: Think big picture and focus on one thing. If your tone is serious, look for images with….

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2020

When she eventually gets her camera to work all you and the kids get to see is a blurry close up of her knitted cardigan and the image is jumping all over the place, yet you still have to listen politely as she complains about her lumbago. and if you can get a picture and sound that's usable, and there's no pixellation or latency.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Image source: Novak Archive (1965) In a conversation with Sugata Mitra several years ago, the novelist Arthur C. Image source: Novak Archive (1958) But that didn't stop retro-futurists back in the 1950s and 60s depicting a 21st Century in which robots performed the role of classroom teachers. Enjoy the retro-futuristic images!

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Here are just five ideas for using technology to support learning, while promoting creative thinking, and I''m sure that with a little thought you will be able to adapt them to your own subject area. 1) Senses: In this picture the five traditional human senses are depicted. Unported License. I bet you can come up with some more!

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2017

The Mandelbrot set pictured here is one such fractal , and I sometimes use it in my talks to illustrate a key educational point. Image from Wikimedia Commons Fractal education by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Image from University of Northampton A death was announced today in the Times. The picture above (an artists impression) depicts a lectern and a wall of screens at one end of a carpeted room, with chairs and tables dotted around, cabaret style. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I don't know where this image came from. It's also common knowledge that he wore false teeth. Look at the pictures of him, and especially his face on the one dollar bill, and you'll see that his mouth is distorted, and his lips are bulging outwards in a pout. Unported License. Where did this information come from?

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 27, 2018

Music can be a challenge, but many sites offer free music under a creative commons license. For example, a piece of equipment is more natural to show a picture of instead of trying to describe it to learners. They have over 100,000 completely free images which you can use without attribution.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Music can be a challenge but there are many resources that offer free music under a creative commons license. For example, a piece of equipment is easier to show a picture of instead of trying to describe it to learners. I had to be resourceful. Here are some links to such resources: [link]. https://soundcloud.com/.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

If your audience is running on older, slower hardware, try keeping media files to a minimum — pictures might be worth 1000 words, but can just as easily suck up hundreds of megabytes. Adding Images. To create a new slide containing a picture, select the New Slide command from the Insert menu. Adding Audio.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

Also on show was the HTC Vive - a VR suite which provided a truly immersive experience (pictured). The capability of the system to allow you to render 3D images and then view them from all angles and perspectives was quite a powerful effect. Unported License. Personally, I can't wait.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2019

An important use of Dale's cone: Image from Wikimedia Commons Dale's cone is a very funny idea. Montezuma's terrible revenge Hadrian's busted wall by Steve Wheeler was written in London, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 9, 2016

The picture on this page of two children sharing was shared freely by its author on Wikimedia Commons. I'm using it freely because he gave his permission in a Creative Commons licence on the site. The image will get a lot more exposure than those by other photographers who don't freely licence their work.

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Learning with e's

JULY 25, 2019

Image created by Steve Wheeler (spot the skull) We all have our favourite places. Spaces in which we can relax, be one with nature, or unleash our creative instincts. When it comes to creativity, one of the best places for me is my 'home office space'. Unported License. I call it that, but it started life as a garage.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The other articles were written specially for this issue by members of the group and give a picture of the themes and questions we are now exploring. Image source Communication and learning in a digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Paivio''s model of cognition featured two modes of processing, known as imagens (images) and logogens (words), which are illustrated below. Looking at images can evoke a different response to listening to the spoken word, or reading text. Unported License. Norman The design of everyday things 31.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

They were given two days to complete the project, and the first day involved a 6 hour history walk around the city, where they were given opportunities to capture still and moving images and do some research. Unported License. A poignant and atmospheric video on Plymouth''s War History by Jody Day and Frances Dingle, first year B.Ed

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 22, 2019

Image from Pexels Here's a quote for you to consider: "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools." The little chap in the pictures is clearly enjoying his banana cake. Unported License. He said: "It was a big decision - honouring the cookbook or take more time to get the right result."

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

In an interesting episode last year, I personally experienced the power of the viral web through Wikipedia Commons. I took several pictures of Punk Godfather Malcolm McLaren when he spoke at Handheld Learning 2009 in London. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Image from Public Domain Pictures Noah was a strong character. Thor's lost hammer Noah's character ark by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Frankenstein's well-meaning monster 7.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 28, 2014

It was easy, once I understood that in the ''take a picture'' menu, I could simply blink my right eye, and it would capture a picture of my field of vision. Next it displayed the image and asked me whether I wanted to delete the image I have captured with my eye blink. Unported License. A quick tap, and it''s gone.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Image from Wikimedia Commons The notion of technology as a mind tool is seductive. Whatever we choose to label this experience, it is a means of feeding the visual system with images, both moving and static, and in so doing, immersing the perception of the user within the context that is being portrayed. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2012

Licensing your content under a Creative Commons agreement that allows for repurposing or remixing provides an opportunity and invitation for others to translate your slides or blogposts into another language. There were several images I could have used to illustrate this post, but all were protected by a copyright licence.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

These data are gathered via wearable devices (or other technologies nearby) and provide the individual with a ''big picture'' of their daily routines, health state and other information they will find personally useful. Unported License. Will this not make them vulnerable to as yet undetermined threats? What are your views?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 21, 2013

They also encompass hyperlinks, sounds, videos, and images. Specifically, the session focused on images as narrative, and all of the group managed to create some impressive and in some cases stunning image sequences. This image is of a man looking out over the sea, in a coastal village in the Gambia.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Image from Pixabay Here are some of my recent (and random) thoughts about the future, science fiction and technology reality. These are useful depictions of possible realities, but they paint a dystopic picture of our relationship with technology. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

Friends and others who may have access to the user''s personal artefacts, such as text information, conversations, pictures and videos, have the ability to publish these more widely that the user might be comfortable with. Unported License. Indeed, many relationships have been damaged or fractured because of such actions.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2015

The challenge is this: Send an image to friends in your personal learning network and ask them to write a learning related blog post about it. They then challenge their friends with an image of their choice. All the posts are labelled with the hashtag #blimage (blog-image) so they can be easily discovered and aggregated.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

I was challenged by delegates at Solstice to elaborate on the legal and ethical issues of Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches. Creative Commons, I explained, is a means of circumventing Internet Copyright constraints. Finally, a note about the Digital Literacies Conference at Southampton (pictured).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The following morning, it will be my turn to speak, and I will be providing a keynote entitled: 'Teachers and Technology: The Big Picture' in which I will talk about how teachers can harness the power of new and emerging technology to inspire and engage learners. Unported License. Here is the list of people attending the conference.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2014

Metropolis image source Brian Solis image by Steve Wheeler Inventing the future by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. We need design thinking if we want to innovate and take control of our futures, was the final message.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2012

This picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald is iconic for a certain generation, but for those who are younger and know little about the political history of the United States of America can easily be fooled. Image source Lies, damned lies and the Internet by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

The gagging order was imposed on Martha Payne, a primary school girl who attends Lochgilphead Primary School, because she took pictures of her school dinners and then rated them out of 10 on her blog. Image by Freefoto You can't ban the blog by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

Zoe, Megan (pictured above) and their friends, also in year 8, were working hard on creating an augmented reality art gallery. They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 12, 2011

Some of my Twitter buddies have reminded me today of the torrid picture that was taken of me jokingly emulating Edupunk Poster Boy Jim Groom. There's an image of me floating around the web with 'PUNK IT UP' on my knuckles. Unported License. And yet all it would take to educate the lot of them would be 5 billion US dollars.

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Learning with e's

JULY 6, 2017

This baby (6 weeks old at the time the picture was taken) seems to be accessing digital content using an iPad. This is one of many evocative images of young children using technology that have been circulating on the web recently. Unported License. It is claimed that the 'digital birth' of a child is around 6 months.

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