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JUNE 12, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler In previous posts here and also here , I wrote about how to engage learners in online collaborative writing. Third comes Explanation - here they describe in deeper terms their ideas and provide other group members with more detail. They may for example, elaborate on why their 'gold dust resources' are so useful.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.

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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. Stay at home. These are phrases that will be forever synonymous with the year 2020 - the year of the virus.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler - Entrance to the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Last week you would have discovered me in the cellar of a French palace - the stylish Hotel Salomon de Rothschild , not a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The classic old building was transformed into a hi-tech conference venue for European Innovation Day.

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JULY 8, 2016

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. Also on show was the HTC Vive - a VR suite which provided a truly immersive experience (pictured). Personally, I can't wait. Unported License.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). It's easy to become lost in a crowd, and in the past spotting individual students who are in trouble, and providing personal intervention, has been a challenge for schools (Blatchford et al, 2002). Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Anyone who has ever attended the BETT Show will tell you it is vast, chaotic and very commercial. According to its company website VEX Robotics provides tools to inspire problem solvers of the future. Perhaps the most impressive of the range of educational robots on offer was the unit pictured above.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 9, 2016

If you can’t afford the popular stock image sites, you might think you’re only option is to take your own photos. In recent years, there has been a huge surge of free stock image sites that offer photos, vector graphics, and even videos! Luckily, that doesn’t have to be the case! Top 10 Free Stock Image Sites for E-Learning.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 17, 2017

Makey Makey in action Some time ago I wrote a blog post on innovative teaching - where teachers take risks, stand back to let students learn for themselves, and provide challenging and engaging experiences. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Photo by Ramakant Sharda on unsplash Teachers do their best. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, as it's not provided my class with transferable, real life skills during the process. I know they do. I know teachers do their best, and I know the pressure they are under. I prepare children for tests and I do it quite well.

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JUNE 7, 2017

We each need to decide the true purpose of education and then create the spaces and experiences that provide the best possible learning outcomes for our students. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Learning by design? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

There are very few people better placed to provide an overarching view of how universities across Europe are adapting to the digital economy than Leslie Wilson. She is Secretary General of the European Universities Association , and was a keynote speaker at the EDEN 25th Anniversary Conference in Budapest. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

He says: "An increased use of technology not only to deliver teaching, but also to support and assist students and to provide new forms of student assessment." Photo by Steve Wheeler A growing divide? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 This is an important point.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Provide links to key information, to recommended reading, to extra not-necessarily-key-but-still-interesting reading, to videos, to books, to articles, to blogs. Stock photos : most of us can spot these a mile off, so it’s a safe bet the learner can too. Links : it’s online. It’s the internet.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Pedagogy in the best sense of the word is where knowledgeable others such as teachers and experts provide the guidance and support for good learning to be optimised. Photo by Steve Wheeler Innovative practice by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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MAY 22, 2014

My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. How it can be applied to education It is important for teachers to provide opportunities for children to constantly learn new things. and Ross, G. The role of tutoring in problem solving.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. As with most software providers RM offers training for schools, but a lot of the functionality is intuitive through quick links and other useful shortcuts. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If those methods can also encourage creative thinking, they are even more welcome in the classroom. Technology can provide some of those creative solutions. Many Wikipedia pages appeal for additional content, verification or editing which could provide students with some clues as to how to proceed. [NB: Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Predictably, the ideas that dominated at Learning Technologies 2019 (#LT19uk) were mostly on new and emerging technologies. Sponge's AR tool works within the user's smartphone, providing additional information as overlays to the live image appearing on screen through the smartphone camera.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Peddle power - saving the university money and providing students opportunities to keep fit while they are learning. Photo by Steve Wheeler Learner power by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It''s important for teachers to consider that integrated technology can provide a doorway to deeper learning, characterised for example in critical analysis and personal reflection. 2013) Digital reflection: Using digital technologies to enhance and embed creative processes. and Pinterest. Reference Kirk, C. and Pitches, J.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 2, 2019

Photo from Flickr I'm fascinated by story telling, and I often wonder why TV series are so compelling. The writers ensure that enough information is provided so that you can decide whether you want to fall in love with the character (hero), or learn to hate them (villain). This is especially so when I'm binge watching a DVD boxed set.

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DECEMBER 14, 2019

Photo by Andrew Bain on unsplash It wasn't long after the prophet Jonah was thrown overboard into stormy seas that he was swallowed by a great fish. Training and emetics will be provided. Popular belief is that it was a whale, but that would be ridiculous. Must be willing to swallow a full grown man, and vomit him out after three days.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Today, the bold claim is that anyone can learn anything they wish, because social media channels can provide that scaffolding. All you need to do is provide the commitment for hours of practice and application. The content is out there. Informal learning will never be the same again. Unported License.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Children learn to learn, and this provides them with the chance to make a lifetime of independence, resilience and success. Kingston, NY: Creative Crayon Lunenburg, M., Choosing to educate means being a professional learner. How you learn often reflects how you teach. Korthagen, F. and Swennen, A. 2007) The teacher as a role model.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Blogging for example, provides students with a potentially very large audience for their writing. 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 Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Photo by Jason Roswell on unsplash Online learning is becoming increasingly popular and widespread, and is now reaching into compulsory education. Teachers in schools are considering the extent to which common pedagogical methods can be adapted into online environments, or whether they need to be completely revised and reconceptualised.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Photo by US Dept of Agriculture on Flickr Social learning is one of the vital components of contemporary learning and development. Therefore, in a peer relationship, each employee can provide social scaffolding for others, whilst receiving support in return. Everyone knows something, but no-one knows everything. Unported License.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Photo by Pedro Figueras on Pexels In my last post I wrote about smartphones and other personal devices, and their tendency to distract us by diverting our attention. Distractions in the workplace are common. It provide important support and offers numerous benefits to help us work better and smarter. This is a continuation.

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Learning with e's

MAY 9, 2017

We have known for a while that Sats - or statutory assessments - are there to provide the government with metrics about schools, and have very little to do with children's learning. There are better ways to assess children than Sats. We need to assess children's learning to ensure they are progressing. Unported License.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons During the life of the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCon), we tried to be innovative, introducing new features each of the ten years the event ran. One of the most innovative (and perhaps controversial) was the inclusion of a confessional booth during the final PELeCon. Reference Gerver, R.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Photo by Crabchick on Flickr In my #3quotes series I have been citing directly from the texts of education thinkers, because it is important to apply ideas and theories in context. 1973, p 5) Bruner also held the view that social contexts provided the context for learning. Bruner, J. 1990) Acts of Meaning. Unported License.

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MAY 20, 2013

Or can they work together with the new theories to provide us with a basis to understand what is happening. Learning Theories for the Digital Age from Steve Wheeler Photo by Steve Wheeler Learning theories for the digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Students who share their content online can reach a worldwide audience who can act as a peer network to provide constructive feedback. Photo by Steve Wheeler Three things by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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MARCH 14, 2014

They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. They showed me how they planned to merge their own photos with the pictures they had made of animals, to create a new type of synthetic art. Unported License.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

The video is only five minutes long and we’ve provided discussion points for each example below. photo creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by thms.nl. This is true and good, but we’ve assembled 10 examples where the teacher is creating the video to address some need in the classroom. Flip a Lesson.

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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. Where it is implemented, AI will rapidly transform the design of courses, providing educators with vast amounts of new insight into what students do, how they study and what is most effective.

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