Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2017

Does he mean the shape and appearance of classrooms and other built environments in which we conduct education? Should chairs be on wheels for greater flexibility, and can the furniture in the classroom be configured in multiple ways to adapt to needs? Photo from Wikimedia Commons Learning by design? Which do you favour?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 19, 2015

We select a unique hashtag for the module and this is used on all the tweets that are relevant to the lessons. The backchannel is an ideal medium for them to engage with people outside the classroom too. During the lectures, I encourage students to interact with each other and the speakers by using Twitter as a backchannel.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2020

by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) If. Unported License.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Well, behind the scenes, there’s this whole process of getting the green light to use those materials in classrooms. Creative Commons License: This type of license allows content creators to specify the terms of use for their materials. It inspires students to dive into their lessons with a fresh perspective.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

40 pages at the back of the book present 'mission tool kits' for teachers - lesson plan resources that any educator would find easy to adapt and apply in their classroom. She is bent on achieving global action around the use of technologies in education. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Will they be in a structured classroom setting, or will they be learning independently on digital devices? Will they be viewing your lessons on on their laptops, or on their phones? Images by Betsy Warner and Matt Cornock via Flickr Creative Commons 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? If there was nothing else, I could still conduct all my lessons using a board and pen. Weapon of choice by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I could also envisage how they might be deployed in classrooms to encourage students to actively pursue a range of learning in diverse subjects. I would have turned up for every lesson. March of the robots by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. Every one of our major classrooms had one installed when the building was commissioned several years ago. They were given paper handouts with target numbers.

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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. They have been around for a long time, but IWBs seem to have polarised teachers.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Since instructional designers develop so many types of resources—like eLearning courses, instructors’ manuals for classroom use, learning games, training courses for use in workplaces—there are always new skills to pick up. Those learning experiences can take place in a variety of settings: in-school, out-of-school, on the job, and more.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Here''s a video (made by Oliver Quinlan) of two of my undergrad students discussing what they learnt in the act of creating personal blogs: To reach the point where they can start establishing a maker culture in their classrooms, teachers often need to undergo a reboot of their mindsets. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Using technology in the classroom and integrating technology for learning are two different things. No amount of technology can replace a great lesson that has been delivered in a passionate, inspirational and focused manner. The trick is not to make technology a central focus in the classroom. It should not be glamourised.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Mr Handel was also a scout leader, and encouraged me and others to pursue learning outside and beyond the classroom. He turned a blind eye when I sometimes appeared at the back of his lessons, although we both knew I should have been elsewhere. He was always calm and spoke softly to everyone. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

or 'by the end of this lesson the student will.' The educational theorist and humanist Carl Rogers once wrote that we should aim to foster 'a climate of trust in the classroom in which curiosity and the natural desire to learn can be nourished and enhanced' (Rogers, 1983). Yet many education systems have failed to accept this reality.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

Plymouth University''s Immersive Vision Theatre Traditionally, classrooms have been rectangular. The natural default education mode in rectangular space classrooms is to place students in a passive and controllable situation, where chairs and tables are configured to face the front - the ''presentation area''.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

Once, during a chemistry lesson in secondary school, I was larking around and accidentally burnt a big hole in my teacher''s pretty floral dress with concentrated acid. Today, the idea of flipping the classroom is a familiar one. education flipped classroom flipped roles learning pedagogy school teaching Technology'

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 3, 2017

As the schools reopen after the festivities, many teachers drag themselves out of their homes and make their way reluctantly in the cold and dark, back to the classroom, knowing that another hard term is ahead. Teaching and Teacher Education 23, 586-601. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MAY 10, 2008

Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. The Connected Classroom: A Lesson on Reflection: MORE Copyright Confusion… A teacher’s reflections on using images from Flickr. FactCheckED: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy. lead by example.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

This post is sponsored by RM Education MIS en place by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 This article focuses on the latter. Managing information for education can be a thorny problem. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

Sometimes it is as simple as changing the format of a lesson, or altering the layout of a classroom. I often create chaos and uncertainty in my lessons. Photo by Steve Wheeler Curious learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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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. We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 20, 2014

The short excerpt embedded in this blog post features three - Alex Druce, Tyla Elworthy and Aaron Fisher - who articulate far better than I ever could exactly why they bring their own technology into the classroom, and how they use it to enhance and enrich their learning experiences. Unported License.

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CourseArc

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Making the transition from traditional textbook learning and instructor-led classroom courses to the strange new world of online learning can be a daunting challenge – especially for first-time online learners who’ve never had to navigate a digital learning interface before. You’d want all the help you could get, right?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Teachers could select a profession from an easy-to-use visually rich menu on the front page of the platform and find people who were willing to share a lesson plan, resources and activities related to their talk. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Kadenze

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Lessons are delivered through a series of video presentations aimed at teaching about the field of psychology and preparing students conceptually for approaching a series of digital projects. Credit for Image: University of Michigan Health Lab published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 2 Undeniably, screencasting “has opened up… new ways of integrating classroom teaching and net-based learning.” Finding a video that fits a specific lesson can be time-consuming. Ruffini, Ed.D.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2013

It is not hard to see how such an artificial transition from active to passive can stifle creativity and demotivate learners. 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. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2015

Many teachers may still baulk at considering using such tools in the classroom, just as many did when iPads and other seemingly exotic technologies were introduced. Then one day he saw a 3D printer being demonstrated in his classroom during a technology lesson. Will it have an impact on lessons? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2012

The classroom echoed with every footstep, and there was no central heating. I wrote about the idea of knocking down walls and joining three classrooms together to provide more circulating space for students. Photo source unknown More fabulous learning spaces by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I taught my first art lesson today. Teaching an art lesson is therefore a little outside my comfort zone. Whether painting a water colour landscapes (my favourite medium) or making a new slideshow for a talk, I always try to portray my ideas creatively, in a manner that is pleasing to the eye. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2014

When students behave badly during lessons, everyone is affected. Behavioural management can take up more time in some lessons than teaching. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity Photo from Wikimedia Commons Behave yourself by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

The use of it in the eXSpace, if I am to be critical, may not necessarily prepare my student teachers for the classrooms they will be entering on placement, mainly because most schools won't have the 7000 series yet. This has the potential, if used effectively, to connect students, teachers, and devices together. Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 2, 2014

My Classroom. My classroom, at its best, is a place where maximum time is spent with students wrestling with an engaging task. Knowing the difference comes from the very human experience of time in classrooms with learners. Lessons Learned. This is the human side of teaching.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2012

One thing they would almost certainly recognise though, would be the school classroom. Heppell points out that creativity could be encouraged and personal learning achieved through the use of handheld technologies such as mobile phones. The internet, medical science? Mobile phones and credit cards? They wouldn't recognise any of those.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 17, 2012

Once upon a time, teachers used to close the door behind them, and then begin their lessons. To all intents and purposes, what went on inside the classroom stayed inside the classroom. New technologies have the potential to undermine the 'sanctity of the classroom' as they open up what is said and done for the world to see.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

They create lesson plans, produce resources, devise marking schemes and search around for activities and games they can repurpose to use in teaching sessions. Some of the strongest experiences and lessons we learn are rooted in authentic contexts, cultures and activities. Unported License.

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