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What do online educators need?

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Correspondence course, radio, television, video, the Web, computers and smart phones - each in turn has been harnessed to reach students for education that are traditionally outside of the traditional learning space. There was a wide spectrum of responses, from fervent adoption through to vehement rejection of the idea.

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Freedom to imagine

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Today, technology, particularly technology that is personal and portable, can provide similar forms of scaffolding for learning. Increasingly, teachers are adopting roles as support for learning, and as facilitators of learning spaces. Give a child a camera and she will be creative. Unported License.

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Making your mark

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I have been inside some unique learning spaces recently. The Immersive Vision Theatre on the Plymouth University campus is one example of a unique learning space. In his Pinterest collection of Good Tested Ideas , he features a school that has adopted the idea of writing surfaces for its student desktops.

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6 interactive whiteboard tips

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I promised six things teachers should consider if they wish to optimise the IWB in their classrooms: Firstly, it's important that IWBs are optimally positioned within learning spaces. Managers need to win the hearts and minds of teachers if they wish to see IWBs successfully adopted into everyday practice (Wheeler and Winter, 2005).

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2020 learning technologies

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Pragmatists might also point out that even if new technologies are introduced into formal learning spaces, they are often applied poorly and innappropriately, or are used in ways that fall short of their true potential. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. The sooner this happens, the better. Unported License.

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Drive like an Egyptian

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Such self organisation takes a little time to evolve, but those within it must learn quickly to survive. You would need to learn pretty fast, and adopt the conventions of driving with your horn, or risk a serious accident. Learning is no longer linear. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Three things all teachers need

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Apart from the surge in technology use, and the new skills teachers need to adopt, implement and harness new digital media and tools (a subject for another blogpost), I would argue that little has changed in our expectations of good educators. Parents should also expect teachers to give creative freedom to children. Unported License.