Learning with e's

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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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It will be of great interest then, for anyone who subscribes to the notion of personal learning, that the latest Higher Education version of the Horizon Report lists ''The quantified self'' as a trend we can expect to see adopted in the next 4-5 years. The use of life-logging technologies is one emerging aspect of the quantified self.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2011

It's difficult to see much beyond the end of the year, so trying to predict what technologies we might see in schools by 2020 is like staring into a very strong spotlight. 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.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

This is also the region within which we adopt roles and present specific mannerisms, follow scripts and project a controlled appearance that may be further enhanced with props and costumes. This is usually a more honest persona, where we ''let our hair down'' and step out of the character we may have adopted in front stage, formal roles.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of 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

JULY 12, 2017

Students are often dissuaded from using technology unless they are in a designated area such as an ICT suite. What will they need in a world of work that is increasingly dependent on digital technologies? They will be the workers whose skills and knowledge cannot be replicated easily by technology.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2012

Teachers in many schools will tell you they are running hard just to stand still as they attempt to adopt new technologies for learning. And yet, with a clear framework or roadmap for adoption, many of the challenges of adopting new technology can be met, and many of the fears teachers have can be assuaged.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2014

Perhaps it was jet-lag and travel weariness that kept Brian fairly quiet over dinner on the eve of Learning Technologies. He dwelt on organisational use of technology, and presented us with some challenges. There is no employee ownership, and that is often why technology becomes a problem within organisations, he explained.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

In yesterday's blogpost I discussed the problems of change management in schools and suggested that the biggest barrier to the successful adoption of new technologies lies in the minds of teachers. It is no wonder that some teachers feel threatened by technology. (pp References Wheeler, S. (Ed.) Transforming Primary ICT.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2012

It is increasingly apparent that learning technology and digital communication will play a key role in the shaping of future higher education. For digital technologies to become as successful in education as ‘paper and pencil’, I believe that five strategies will need to be put into place: 1. Norman, 1990).

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2017

Image from National Photo Library on Flickr As my colleagues at Plymouth Institute of Education make their way back to work, and I sit gazing, relaxed (and retired) from the sidelines, I have mixed emotions. I suspect that vollying is the mode that most of my colleagues adopt, and it's the mode I shall be practising myself from now on!

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I'm in Australia this week to give the opening keynote for the Inaugural Technology for Learning and Teaching Forum , which will be held over two days at the Rendezvous Hotel in Melbourne, just across from Flinders Street Railway Station (pictured). Melbourne, this part anyway, is quite Bohemian, bustling, vibrant and very colourful.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2012

In his book 2004 ' Distraction ', author Mark Curtis argued that our sense of self - or personal identity - can become confused or challenged when we habitually use digital technology. Our immersion in media, he argues, provides us with a myriad of alternative role models we can adopt or adapt. Image source Lost in the crowd?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Saltash.Net School, one of the premier technology early adopter schools in the United Kingdom is holding its annual staff conference down on the north coast of Cornwall this Friday and Saturday, and its Deputy Head Dan Roberts , has managed to get hold of some exceptional speakers for the event. I'm looking foward to it.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The construction training team Unitec (pictured) are particularly savvy and ahead of the field when it comes to the application of learning technology. During a break in the proceedings at the ICELF event I had the privilege of being shown around their training compound where Unitec delivers its Certificate in Applied Technology (Carpentry).

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2018

Image by Wecometolearn on Flickr Grading is a remnant of the Industrial Age. It seems strange that the education community is willing to adopt new technologies and develop new theories and methods of education, but it can't arrive at a way to get rid of grading. It says 'this product meets the requirements.' Reference Holt, J.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can track down resources, people, contacts, tunes, images, videos, quotes. Others are more positive about the effects and influence of digital technology on learning. Photo from Public Domain Images All just a click away? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2012

Before the digital age, we had mass media to do the job - TV, radio and newspapers and prior to that, more primitive technologies were employed to spread news. An interesting feature of the model is a gap or chasm between the early adopters and the early majority, which has been referred to as the 'bowling alley'.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2017

While we are going through transitions in pedagogical practices, or technology driven innovation, there will always be casualties. Or, in most cases, teachers adopt the new ideas, but not wholeheartedly, and only casually apply them. Many teachers welcome change, but don't want to change themselves. We need to look after each other.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

We sat outside in the early spring sunshine of Portlaiose and discussed blogging, social media, the state of education, ideal schools of the future, innovation and technology, and a whole host of related topics. Image source On Aer by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2012

What changes has technology made in schools? More than four decades after Toffler's book was published, there is conflicting evidence that technology has actually delivered any significant change to the pedagogy practiced in school classrooms. So why has technology wrought so few changes in the school classroom?

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2012

All down through the history of technology, as each new tool is introduced, there are those who will resist and complain, usually without any real evidence to justify their complaints. The gist of the discussion centred not so much on the technology (and rightly so) but more on the pedagogy. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2013

I have been blogging with classes for eight years and these common-sense guidelines always work: 1) Be open to parents and allow them to share any concerns. 4) Work within the school policy on images of children on blogs. 2) Moderate all comments before they are posted online. 3) Have a clear and robust e-safety policy.

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Learning with e's

MAY 8, 2012

The Theatre uses expensive Blade Network technology to provide the massive rendering power needed to create realistic and real-time visual effects. The students love it, because they can then capture their images with a mobile phone for later use. Creative surfaces will mean that 'making your mark' will take on an entirely new meaning.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2011

Walter and Graham raise a number of pertinent issues in relation to the nature of technology, disruptive change and learning, and I welcome further debate on this blog. Walter McKenzie : I understand disruptive activism.disruptive technologies not so much. It's how we use the technologies. I'm a watch-and-wait person.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The headteacher of Mounts Bay, when interviewed, said that she believes that touch screen technologies are the future of learning. Schools that do not begin to innovate and adopt new technologies for learning will be left behind in the 20th century. She is right. But the future doesn't hang around for long. Unported License.

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Mindflash

APRIL 27, 2012

An April 2011 Forrester Research [report] estimated that 47% percent of users were self-provisioning technology and expected the number to rise to 60% by end percent by the end of 2011, and Jensen & Kline (around the same time) estimated that between 1/3 and 2/3 of employees were meeting their needs by working around L&D.).

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2015

With so many technology tools, channels and services available to us, it's an easy question to answer. This was one of the first occasions when technology began to open up non-linear forms of content consumption. Knowledge can be negotiated using open repository systems such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2011

I have written about 2020 learners , 2020 classrooms and 2020 curriculum (focusing mainly on assessment of learning), and also touched on what we might see with 2020 learning technologies. No amount of technology, self-study or user generated content can ever replace teachers. What they may do less of is - teach. More discussion."

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Recently I have been considering the changing role of teachers who are adopting technology to extend the walls of the classroom. In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. I am sure others will have different preferences or recommendations to make.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I was invited to give a keynote presentation at the start of the school year and afterwards watched a showcase of all the students and staff have been doing with technology and learning. We have the technology to do this now in the palm of our hands, so why do we continue to tether children to one specific space? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Recently we heard the excellent news that the flagship journal of the Association for Learning Technologies ( ALT-J ) which recently changed its name to Research in Learning Technology, has gone fully open access. It took a change of publisher to achieve it. I'm going to sign up to this most excellent arrangement. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2011

Finally, we briefly discuss barriers to adoption of health and healthcare smartphone apps (e.g., Image source by C Frank Starmer Smartphones in mobile healthcare by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 as well as some workarounds to mitigate those barriers.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Technology mediated communication and pervasive computing affect everyone in the Western industrialised world. Without knowing it, when we interact with these technologies, our behaviour changes. And what of the image above? Whether or not this causes us to adopt different identities has yet to be established.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. References Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P. and Wheeler, D. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2011

Here's what you said: Madeleine Brookes , technology integrator and ITGS teacher in Beijing, China, predicted that we will move from handwritten exams to online submission, which I think is a reasonable position to take. Too much over-reliance on grades is another problem. Why do we force children to jump through so many hoops? Amen to that.

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ATD Learning Technologies

MARCH 1, 2016

Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora are all excellent choices for creating Section 508 courses for people with disabilities using assistive technology. xAPI is the much newer version that allows for more flexibility, especially with newer technology. Be careful about assuming that you can use images from a Google search.

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