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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. Other schools are now adopting these ideas, and several have set up apiaries for keeping bees. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In previous posts I articulated some thoughts on how technology can (and should) be integrated into education. In an initial post I argued that technology use is not the same as technology integration. Ultimately, technology should be integrated into education so that learning can be transformed. Unported License.

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MARCH 16, 2014

The legacy of this theory is that many teachers continue to trot out the same old line that students are ''natives'' whilst they, being older and less familiar with technology, are ''immigrants.'' His argument is that the use of digital technologies is not about when you were born, but about what tools you decide to use most often.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In my previous post I discussed the ways technology might help to promote the survival of universities in a time of financial upheaval and disruptive culture. In this post, I discuss change management and outline some of my recommendations for the adoption of new practices and technologies.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Wearable computing is just one small step up from mobile technology. Will 2014 be the year when wearable technology emerges as the next stage in our connected future? Hammersley is convinced that it isn''t the technology - the gadget - that is the driving force of this transition. Ben Hammersley seems to think so.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2013

In versions of the 2012 Horizon Report, eBooks were considered by many of the expert panel to be on the 1 year horizon for full adoption into education. Photo by GoXunuReviews The future of reading by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 It seems they may be right.

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MARCH 5, 2014

The recent Higher Education version of the Horizon Report highlights some interesting predicted trends for technology adoption. Those who forge collectively ahead will change their courses to accommodate student use of technologies to create their own content, and change their assessment methods too. Unported License.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

Teacher beliefs about pedagogy are central to the successful integration of new technologies into schools. The extent to which they see technology skills as relevant and valuable directly relates to the extent to which these skills are practised and applied in their work. New technology really has to be shown to be relevant and useful.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The teacher led nature of traditional education is being challenged, not only ideologically, but also as a result of the pervasiveness of new technologies. One question that is often asked within this discourse, is whether technology can actually improve education by providing learners with opportunities to be creative.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

We start with the question.how will technology help to shape the future of Higher Education? It is increasingly apparent that learning technology and digital communication will play a key role in the shaping of future higher education. Technology will need to become more ‘transparent’ (Wheeler, 2005).

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JULY 12, 2017

Photo from LSE Library on Flickr Most of the students starting university at the end of summer 2017 were born around the turn of the century. Students are often dissuaded from using technology unless they are in a designated area such as an ICT suite. It's a sobering thought. The guardians of this knowledge are the academics.

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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. questions and test out the possibilities of the technology.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 28, 2014

Each of us will have the capability to inhabit as many virtual worlds and adopt as many personas as we wish, and yet we each remain one person. The along came various forms of distance education, where learner and teacher were separated by geographical distance and conversation was mediated through technology. Unported License.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. The smaller elements with the tribe, which we call clans, also employ shared symbolism.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

David Kelly addressing Learning Technology delegates I launched a new module for my first year students today called 'Digital Reputation and Digital Literacies'. What chimed with digital reputation and literacies from Kelly's presentation was his various stories about wearable technologies. His talk is summarised on his blog.

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JULY 6, 2015

I was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to keynote a conference on technology enhanced learning, and yet for the interview I ended up talking about reflective practice and pedagogy. I also discussed the idea that blogging and other technology tools can support teachers as they attempt to reflect on their practice. Unported License.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies. Will they expect their professors to continue to take the lead in delivering knowledge, or will they readily adopt the role of co-creators of knowledge? He identifies. ".an Unported License.

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OCTOBER 28, 2012

Postmodernist views of society can be appropriated as lenses to analyse the personalised use of digital technology. This is an excerpt from a forthcoming publication entitled: Personal Technologies in Education: Issues, Theories and Debates] References Baudelaire, C. 1964) The Painter of Modern Life , New York, NY: Da Capo Press.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

I'm in a dream job now, talking about technology and learning, and how we can optimise one from the other. I proposed that a great deal of learning will take place in the future through the use of mobile tools, and that tablets, phones and other handheld devices would be just the start of our new technology enhanced learning journey.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Schools need to plan their technology strategies very carefully. It''s about encouraging reluctant teachers to adopt, embed and apply new technology effectively within authentic teaching and learning contexts. Enlist their support as evangelists and champions of new technologies, and you have won half the battle.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. Firstly, he argues, teachers tend to use new technology in much the same way they used old technology, and that as a result very little has changed in terms of pedagogy. Is technology the only catalyst for change, or should we look elsewhere?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In the light of all the new technologies that are now available to universities, the article asks, why has the lecture refused to go away? One astute observation is that even when universities do adopt online modes of teaching such as MOOCs , all that seems to occur is the lecture is transferred to digital format. Unported License.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

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 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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MAY 13, 2015

What are the barriers to adoption of this new technology? Speeds will increase as the technology develops, possibly to the same level as the Star Trek replicator (Earl Grey, hot!), When 3D printer technology eventually attains the speed of the Star Trek replicator, where objects appear instantly, will this effect be lost?

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JULY 9, 2013

My series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books continues. The book remains a significant contribution to the discourse around learning technology. Photo by Biser Todorov (Wikimedia Commons). Photo by Biser Todorov (Wikimedia Commons). For previous reviews start here.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

What does mobile technology have to do with academic freedom? He died in 1985, before the era of the Web and mobile technology, but the thought was undoubtedly already there. He died in 1985, before the era of the Web and mobile technology, but the thought was undoubtedly already there. It is about choice.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Personal learning environments reach beyond the technologies institutions provide - especially virtual learning environments/managed learning environments. Personalised learning is possible, but not always adopted due to the resistance from many schools who find it easier and less time costly to follow pathways they have already created.

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APRIL 25, 2014

This is very much aligned to Erving Goffman''s drama model in which he suggested that we adopt front stage and back stage roles depending on where we find ourselves located across the formal-informal spectrum of our daily activities. Digital FaceBook identity learning online social media Technology Twitter' What are your views?

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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. The forms of knowledge are made possible by the formats, but are essentially driven by the learner. Unported License.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Video and podcasts are ways that I considered adopting to replace blogging, but these carry just as heavy time a commitment and I would still be vulnerable to abuse from trolls. On a positive note, I have enjoyed the creative impetus that blogging has provided me, even though it has been painful. This is the end. There will be no more.

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JUNE 4, 2015

It is a fabulous idea that other conferences should adopt. Clearly there was a lot I was able to say to these young journalists, including sharing my beliefs about how important student centred learning is, the new and emerging roles of teachers as co-learners and the role technology is playing in shaping their lives and their futures.

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MAY 25, 2015

Generally they are young people who have no memory of the last century (the one we were all brought up and educated in), and have been immersed in technology their entire lives. The shift is occurring in the responsibility that learners are adopting to learn for themselves. Photo by JISC Meet Learner 2.0 Working with Learner 2.0

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

A lot of institutions are adopting versions of this method, and are employing technology, particularly video and online content to achieve it. Photo by Mitch Altman on Flickr Making the future of education by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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