Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. Unported License. wikis privacy digital identity.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

this short series on what I will call 'narrative pedagogy'* I want to explore some of the storytelling techniques that can be adapted for use in education. Social media goes crazy with speculation and fans try to resolve their confusion. My use signifies how storytelling devices can be applied to everyday pedagogy.

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APRIL 16, 2014

And yet these theories paid scant attention to the social contexts within which learning occurs. It was not until social theories such as Vygotsky''s social constructivist model were introduced that education as a whole began to capitalise on the dialogic power of learning. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Learning is a complex process that requires commitment on the part of the learner in pursuance of their interests, exploration of their physical and social environments and discovery of the self. Many commentators have argued that we should return to the true meaning of pedagogy , a subject I have also expanded upon here. Moravec, J.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 13, 2020

These include an explanation and application of Lave and Wenger's Communities of Practice , Bruner's Instructional Scaffolding , Moore and Kearsley's Four Types of Interaction model, Festinger's Social Comparison Theory, and Moore's Transactional Distance Theory , among others. Unported License. Keep safe, keep well and stay at home!

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2017

Clearly the binary is used as a rhetorical device, and in reality, each teacher is unique in the way they approach and practice their pedagogy. It's a discussion around far more important issues and rises above the petty and unproductive squabbling that currently rages on social media. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2020

Photo source: Pexels Social distancing. For education people, learning doesn't stop even though all around, social life, commerce, business, mortgage payments, air travel and other common practices have ground to a halt. Unported License. Stay at home. And what about resilience? But we are a resilient people.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 25, 2015

My argument in my presentation was that social learning, the use of mobile devices, and personal learning environments will all be vitally important components of any future learning ecology. Nor can it replace good pedagogy. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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JULY 2, 2019

In online and virtual forms of education, especially blended forms of pedagogy, learners are constantly transitioning between complex states as they learn, interact with their tools, content and with others; and as they navigate, discover, create, organise, remix, repurpose and share content. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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. 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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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Sitting down with her after her keynote at the summer EDEN conference in Jonkoping, Sweden, we discussed a number of issues around diversity and inclusion, the use of technology in education, games based learning, peer learning and emerging learner-led pedagogies. Unported License. Unported License.

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Kadenze

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This enduring trend threatens to further increase current social and economic disparities given the continued under-representation of both women and individuals from racial minority groups across all technology-oriented industries. Distinctive contribution to creative education. license. Lisa Dierker: ldierker@wesleyan.edu.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2016

In particular, I built upon my recent blog series on narrative pedagogies, including a discussion around the use of literary devices in the classroom. There were discussions around blogging, animations and social media tools and their use in education. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JULY 12, 2017

It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The first two levels, substitution and augmentation are often referred to as low levels of technology integration, in as much as they do not substantially impact upon or transform pedagogy. Photo by Jim Cianca on Wikimedia Commons The height of SAMR by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Feelings of intimacy, or warmth, or common understanding through technology all fall under the category of social presence. It's a term psychologists and technologists use to describe the ability to project physical, social and emotional presence and also to experience it from others during interactions. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Do students integrate their ideas better if they have a social writing tool at their disposal? Photo by Lupuca on Flickr Integrating technology into learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy. Unported License. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Lyncconf Games on Flickr The rapid spread of the Coronavirus and the subsequent social lock-downs by many governments has meant that technology has been thrust to the forefront in many of our daily human activities. Our choreography is based on social distancing and the need to continue our routines. Unported License.

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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. It should behove every university to continue to make changes to improve pedagogy. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In my last post I discussed Daniel S Christian''s three trends of an emerging pedagogy. I speculated on whether a new social divide might also emerge as a result of the new pedagogy he outlines. How willing will they be to take on a less central role in this new pedagogy ? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2013

Presentation of self in digital life from Steve Wheeler Digital me, digital you by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. pedagogies Technology literacies education University of Reading learning Activity Theory digital identity'

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. Unported License. (Lessig, 2005, p.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 22, 2015

The advent of social media has further advanced this evolution at a pace. There will no doubt be several conversations, some around usability, others around technological or social trends, and of course, we will address the perennial questions about pedagogy and the impact of technology on learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2013

I pointed out recently that many of the older theories of pedagogy were formulated in a pre-digital age. How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories? Unported License.

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MARCH 2, 2017

It's great to keep in touch with them via social media to see how they are doing. They achieve this through innovative pedagogies, creating great learning spaces and with a liberal dose of technology. Unported License. If you're a teacher, you will take pride in your students and their achievements. Prepare to be inspired.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

In my Learning is learning post yesterday, I started a debate about andragogy and pedagogy. Both are highly applicable when we consider the advance of learning technologies and the deep pervasion of social media into many learning spaces, formal and informal. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2012

In 1970, sociologist Alvin Toffler predicted: ' Within thirty years, the educational systems of the United States, and several Western European countries as well, will have broken decisively with the mass production pedagogy of the past, and will have advanced into an era of educational diversity based on the liberating power of the new machines.'

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We''re also in the age of the learner as their own node of production – it''s exciting to see students working with their teachers to create, organise, repurpose and share content on a global scale through social media and personal devices. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The other invited keynote at the event will be Tom Cochrane (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) who will address the topic: Transforming pedagogy with Mobile Web 2.0. Image by Hradcanska Down under by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 1, 2016

We discussed the evolution of social media in higher education and also how institutional virtual learning environments (learning management systems) are being developed to cope with new demands of new learners. Unported License. How do we reconcile these differences? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

This blog comes in at number 4 for 2019, so I'm delighted that the metrics (visitor traffic, design, social media shares, post frequency, interactions, etc) support the many hours of effort I make each month to contribute to the knowledge of my learning community. Unported License. Agility – Teaching Toolkit (ranked 9th in 2014) 10.

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