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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler The image on this page is a slide from the keynote presented by Graham Brown-Martin at Learning Live, a conference hosted recently in London by the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). It's not just about teaching and learning.

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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. Fleshing out the character is a key literary device, presenting the viewer with their weaknesses and strengths, their hopes and fears, their history, their relationships and perhaps their ultimate quest in life. Unported License.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Photo by Anthony Easton on Flickr In my last post I wrote about inspiration - for those who are teachers, and also for those who are learning - and I guess, that is just about everyone. Unconditionally regarding each child with positivity is key to good pedagogy (Rogers, 1983). Effective pedagogy not only has impact, it's contagious.

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MARCH 21, 2014

After all, teachers are paid to teach, and students are there to learn, right? If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. This is a version of teaching, and we all learn by teaching.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Clearly, many schools and many educators struggle with this, and end up teaching using technology as an afterthought. Technology is not a substitute for good teaching. Teachers should also think about what problems and issues they see in every day teaching that might be addressed with the addition of a technology.

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JULY 8, 2016

Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. It's not as simple as that, but engaging teaching usually motivates and inspires. The technology should be there to be used as an additional, enhanced aspect of learning, not as a substitute for good pedagogy. Unported License.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

As 2016 was my 40th year working in educational technology, I also started another series of posts called #40years (7 posts), which traced the history of learning technology from 1975 to the present day. Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Photo by David Goehring on Flickr In my last post, entitled Cinderella Technology , I wrote about the tremendous potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and highlighted some of the reasons why it often fails to be realised in school classrooms. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. As the movement grows, and more teachers become technologically savvy, so we will begin to witness the emergence of new pedagogies and powerful approaches to learning and teaching.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

If teachers are to be present, then they should be pedagogues not directors and managers. 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. Teaching to the test must be replaced by learning as a quest.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Many of my public presentations have the prefix: Digital Learning Futures, because for me, the future of education and learning will be greatly influenced by digital technologies. Nor can it replace good pedagogy. education future learning mobile personal Personal Learning Environment Saudi Arabia school social teaching Technology'

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2009

Presenters: Barbara Frey, University of Pittsburgh. Personality Pedagogy. Students (including Carol Johnston, presenting) decided to start a wiki themselves. co-taught with a 92-year-old prof who was teaching his first online course. And practice presenting in the actual environment before you go live. Define wiki.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It calls for new approaches to integrating technology into teaching, because at present technology use is not optimal. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. Both conclusions tell us more about the pedagogy prevalent in schools than they do about the potential of technology.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It calls for new approaches to integrating technology into teaching, because at present technology use is not optimal. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. Both conclusions tell us more about the pedagogy prevalent in schools than they do about the potential of technology.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

Thirdly, all of the content that is created on the surface can be recorded and then shared in a number of ways, not just via the SMARTboard screen, but also on the personal screens of students present or absent, synchronously or asynchronously, because it can be disseminated widely through multiple digital formats. Unported License.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Photo courtesy of Arts Corps. Teaching is like dancing. Whatever the case, teaching is both exhilarating and frightening. Now that many of us are teaching and parenting and stuck in close quarters 24/7, teaching has become more multilayered, and sometimes even more frightening. One likes to act, one likes to dance.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 10, 2016

Photo of Manon by Unesco I was privileged to share the stage with a school student during the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week symposium. Her dream is to encourage more girls to become involved in technology, and wants more schools to teach children how to use technology in primary schools.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. In my next post I will present the questions, and elaborate on them to support an online discussion.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2016

The image presented here was ironic, appearing as it did on the door to the main venue of the conference, but as several pointed out, the device in the image is a reference to a bygone age when mobile phones were primitive. Photo by Steve Wheeler #LearningIs mobile by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Don’t fixate on how to teach, we should be fixated on the impact of the teaching. Technology: loss of community exposed in Zoom, what is the role of technology and pedagogy? – What about coming back to the classroom, what to retain from pandemic teaching? ?- Teach back” – ask students to teach something to their peers.?.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 27, 2014

They wrap up their ideas in a cloak of respectability and present them exclusively as the answer to today''s education crisis. In my classes I practice a Socratic method of pedagogy, which includes the setting of challenges. They will need to be entrepreneurs and innovators, problem solvers, inventors and creators to survive.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I also promised to blog about some of the alternatives when it comes to teaching very large groups, and here it is. One of the first things to understand about teaching large groups is that they are made up of many individuals who are all just as anxious as each other to do well in their studies. Photo by Steve Wheeler.or

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler Here's my opinion, for what it's worth. It raises a few smiles because of its wit, but also serves to remind us that teaching is a complex human, relational profession in which emotional connections are made and where teachers don't simply present information. Remember the old Arthur Clarke quote?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget once declared: "Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered for himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely." (1) It''s a choice each teacher makes, and over a period of time, it has consequences. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

tools or user generated content tools are very exciting and I think promise to greatly enhance distance teaching and learning. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). However, I also realize that “teaching presence” can be very valuable and in some cases may be indispensable.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The lecture my colleague Phil Selbie presented this week to my final year primary education students was quite unusual in a number of ways. They can even say they love teaching at their school. Teaching is not seen as one of the ''caring professions'' for no reason. As we all know, while doctors save lives, teachers make lives.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

However, these digital texts do not necessarily lack style, coherence, or organization; they simply present meaning in ways unfamiliar to the instructor. Texts that do not look like books or essays and that are structured in unfamiliar ways may leave educators with the perception that the authors of these texts lack necessary literacy skills.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2012

But what would he have said about blogs if he had been witness to the participatory web in all its present glory? Here is my interpretation of some of his ideas, drawn from his most celebrated book 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', and presented in six key points as they might apply to the art of educational blogging.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

Situating learning in rectangular spaces naturally promotes some forms of pedagogy at the expense of others. The natural default education mode in rectangular space classrooms is to place students in a passive and controllable situation, where chairs and tables are configured to face the front - the ''presentation area''.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

On 3-4 December I'll be in Manchester to present a keynote speech at the Inspire Conference , sponsored by the Higher Education Academy. The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. My passion is learning - in all its possible forms.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The methods we use to try to align school and university teaching with the demands of contemporary society will shape the extent to which we succeed. But this is just the start, and more can be done to ensure that the present day education system adequately prepares young people to take up their roles in a rapidly changing world.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 29, 2010

will Transform Learning in Higher EducationThe Social Web is transforming the way students interact with others, and is challenging traditional pedagogies, values and practices. Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Digital Tribes and the Social Web View more presentations from Steve Wheeler.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, and the contextual, collaborative learning experience shared by constructivist and connectivist pedagogies is a social as well as a personal knowledge-creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. Why then do we teach? Are we passing on social mores?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, and the contextual, collaborative learning experience shared by constructivist and connectivist pedagogies is a social as well as a personal knowledge-creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. Why then do we teach? Are we passing on social mores?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2010

will Transform Learning in Higher Education The Social Web is transforming the way students interact with others, and is challenging traditional pedagogies, values and practices. Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Below is the title and abstract of my keynote: Digital Tribes and the Social Web: How Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2019

Photo by Patrick Brinksma on unsplash One of the most impressive TED talks I ever viewed was presented by Neuroscientist Beau Lotto and a 12 year-old student called Amy O'Toole. Amy had earlier attended Blackawton Primary School in South Devon, under the headship of visionary educator Dave Strudwick.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973.

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