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JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." Most new technologies, particularly handheld devices, lend themselves more to student led learning than they do to teacher led education.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In other words, we enable digital and physical learning spaces in which they can freely explore ideas, argue with each other (and us) over concepts and theories and in so doing, develop their reasoning and thinking skills. It's not the easiest route for learning, but it invariably turns out to be deep learning.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

In his blog on Learning Ecosystems, Daniel S. Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

On the floor of the Science Centre, Staffordshire University I haven't written or blogged as much as I usually do, because I have been doing some travelling recently. 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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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. What are the challenges of these new learning environments? What are the issues we need to address to make new learning environments a success?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 11, 2015

I have several horror stories I could tell about how asking questions in class ended up in ridicule for the child and a subsequent ''switching off'' from learning - but I won''t go down that road today. Read my blog post '' Pay attention at the front !'' Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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JULY 25, 2011

This is the basis of good pedagogy, and was referred to by Jean Piaget as 'decentering'. Although teachers are hard pressed for time, the very best know the importance of play and can create playful learning spaces. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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