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Bear pit pedagogy

Learning with e's

We encourage them to develop their own Personal/Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) so they can lock into and exploit the vast communities of practice that already exist out there in the rapidly expanding Blogosphere and Twitterverse. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Supporting online learners

Learning with e's

These include an explanation and application of Lave and Wenger's Communities of Practice , Bruner's Instructional Scaffolding , Moore and Kearsley's Four Types of Interaction model, Festinger's Social Comparison Theory, and Moore's Transactional Distance Theory , among others. Unported License.

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5 of the best

Learning with e's

I find it useful to look back to see what were the most popular blog posts of the previous year. It can be a thorny topic and a bone of contention for any number of reasons, but continues to absorb most of the oxygen in the debate about what constitutes good pedagogy. Unported License.

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Learning as dialogue

Learning with e's

Indeed, the Zone of Proximal Development and other social pedagogy models were largely unheard of in the West before the 1970s. Once Vygotskiian influences began to pervade classroom practice, teachers were quick to seize on the power of dialogue as a strategy. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. Is your school community ready to adopt new practices or will they resist?

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

Regular readers of my blog will know that I’m quite the MOOC fan. In terms of supporting the moocers in the organisation, I envisage L&D pro’s undertaking activities such as facilitating communities of practice, setting up buddy programs, and organising external meetups. Networking. Blending content.

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On Aer

Learning with e's

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