Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The first, he describes as "A move to opening up learning, making it more accessible and flexible. The classroom is no longer the unique centre of learning, based on information delivery through a lecture." Perhaps even more critically, learning can take place at the pace of each individual learner. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? Weapon of choice by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. At Plymouth Institute of Education we have been using a number of classroom technologies, but perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the SMART Interactive Whiteboard. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

When it comes to learning with others, space is usually required. There is plenty to say about collaborative spaces. There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others.

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Learning with e's

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. Exeter: Learning Matters. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

Plymouth University''s Immersive Vision Theatre Traditionally, classrooms have been rectangular. Situating learning in rectangular spaces naturally promotes some forms of pedagogy at the expense of others. Situating learning in rectangular spaces naturally promotes some forms of pedagogy at the expense of others.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. Present-day students, who interact with a steady stream of digital media throughout the day, are generally unsurprised by video in the classroom; if anything, they expect it. 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. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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

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Learning with e's

MARCH 18, 2011

One of the new skills that teachers will need to master in the future will be the ability to manage virtual learning spaces. Learning always takes place in the mind of the learner, but the formalised activities of learning have never been confined to the classroom. and the classrooms and teaching rooms I work in.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2016

There is a place for the latter, but if teachers wish their students to go the extra mile, they need to directly involve them in learning. This means learning spaces where just about anything is possible, where students are kept guessing, and where they are offered the chance to discover for themselves. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2011

The GPS capability in mobile phones has enormous potential for the teaching of geography, while the context aware facilities in smart mobile phones can extend the classroom beyond its traditional walls and out into the world, embracing history, natural sciences, citizenship and art/design. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

In this follow-on from one of my previous posts entitled Going to the wall , I'm going to highlight some of the features we plan to incorporate into our new experimental learning space (eXSpace) at Plymouth Institute of Education. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 19, 2011

They can be spending their time doing much more important things in the classroom, and many probably already know how to do the basics anyway. As Craig Taylor so eloquently stated this week in his discussion on redesigning learning spaces : "Lose the ICT suite. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2011

Looking around the room as they spoke, the audience was all smiles, and many people have stated that it was one of the highlights of the conference for them to listen to groups of such articulate and confident young people showing us oldsters how they used technologies to enhance their own learning in the classroom. Are you with us?

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 25, 2014

How it can be applied in education Many teachers know that learning spaces should be designed to optimise learning. If the classroom is cold or noisy, or the students are uncomfortable, or if they feel unsafe, they will be distracted and will concentrate less on their learning. Lave Situated Learning 25.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 6, 2016

Clearly innovation and creativity is not one dimensional. Some of the schools on the list are considered innovative because of the way they use their learning spaces, whilst others are vaunted because of their progressive pedagogical approaches. Finally, the design of the learning spaces is creative.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Here's something I wrote about TEALs in a previous post - which highlights the importance of the teacher: As a response to the problems of learning in homogenised, regimented environments such as classrooms and lecture halls, Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) came into being. Photo by Steve Wheeler.or Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I went on to suggest that teachers needed to modify their classroom management, curriculum design, resources development, assessment and evaluation methods and communication techniques, if they were to remain effective and responsive practitioners. Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations. and Moonen, J.

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Learning with e's

JULY 25, 2011

Yes, it helps that teachers are experts in their own subject areas, and it yes, it is important that teachers are organised and can maintain some kind of discipline in the classroom, but I would like to argue that the ability to inspire is more important that all of these. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 9, 2013

And that should give all of use some clues as to how to facilitate self-organising learning spaces. Self organised learning - where learners control their own pace and space or learning, and often decide on what content they wish to consume - is a growing force in education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2011

The GPS capability in mobile phones has enormous potential for the teaching of geography, while the context aware facilities in smart mobile phones can extend the classroom beyond its traditional walls and out into the world, embracing history, natural sciences, citizenship and art/design. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I went on to suggest that teachers needed to modify their classroom management, curriculum design, resources development, assessment and evaluation methods and communication techniques, if they were to remain effective and responsive practitioners. 2002) Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations. and Moonen, J.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The first kind of space was highly organised. In these 'class' rooms, our students gathered, seated in rows, facing toward a single part of the space - the front. At the front of the classroom were all of the important things, such as the teacher, and of course, the teacher's tools. Watch this space). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 25, 2014

How it can be applied in education Many teachers know that learning spaces should be designed to optimise learning. If the classroom is cold or noisy, or the students are uncomfortable, or if they feel unsafe, they will be distracted and will concentrate less on their learning. Lave Situated Learning 25.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Learning apps. Branon Learning Management System App Stores Bob Little Apps, Not Courses Inge de Waard Augmented reality moves towards augmented learning with easy tools: Wikitude , Layar , ARToolKit. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 12, 2014

Here are some of my recent thoughts on learning spaces at universities, and the impact of student owned personal technologies: As the shift from location specific learning to untethered learning gathers pace, so the personal device gains increasing importance. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

few concepts have longevity such as “how effective is technology enhanced learning when contrasted with traditional classrooms?&#. Learning with e’s , November 21, 2010In June this year I presented a keynote speech at Middlesex University entitled Digital Tribes and the Social Web. Creative Commons (16).

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2011

Earlier today on Twitter I said: 'To use any social media to its full potential in education you must venture beyond the classroom.' To achieve its optimum effect, the use of any social media - whether it be blogging, wikis or any other form of sharing of content - must breach the walls of the traditional learning space.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

Students can gain access to any amount of resources and connections that will help them to learn; they can use their mobile phones to connect with others; and also create and share their own content with potentially huge audiences outside and beyond the walls of the classroom. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Brent’s background: What I am: 15+ yr learning professional, lifelong learner, player, consumer. How do we use new and emerging technologies in the learning space? In corp learning space, we have a tendency to give in to that. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. United States License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2013

It seems to be a familiar, every day occurrence in some classrooms. The second response suggests to me that students can be freed up to capture content, archive and organise it, repurpose and develop that content to facilitate deeper learning experiences, and share it with their peers to widen its influence in a discursive environment.

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