Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Anyone who has ever attended the BETT Show will tell you it is vast, chaotic and very commercial. 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. 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

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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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

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. Kingston, NY: Creative Crayon Lunenburg, M., Korthagen, F. and Swennen, A. 2007) The teacher as a role model.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. 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 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

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

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. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. 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.

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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

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. Many are prolific and proficient in producing blogs, podcasts, videos and photos for sharing on the web. They can do it all using the simple smartphone in their pocket.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

Teachers encourage children to bring their own devices into the classroom, and I noticed that many of the students had at least two devices - a school laptop and their own iPad - to work with. They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos.

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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

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? Thank you! (NB:

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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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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

One of the barriers to creativity in education is where teachers insists on one answer or one way of doing something. Another is a prevailing atmosphere in some classrooms of fear of failure. One final thought - students don't fail. They just discover new and better ways of doing things. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2014

Teachers should consider that students'' personal technologies should not be banned from the classroom, but could instead be integrated into lessons and embedded as mind tools to extend and enrich the experience of learning. Reference Hase, S. and Kenyon, C. 2001) From Andragogy to Heutagogy. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2015

Some teachers have pointed out that in a lesson of less than an hour, not much can be achieved when the machine is sat there chugging away, laboriously printing an artefact layer by layer, one or two microns every few seconds. but until that time, how will the 3D printer fare in the standard school classroom? 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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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Part of where I struggled was writing up files for demos and examples each day for a lesson. In the science classroom, students used neon whiteboard markers on our lab tables to solve problems before copying their final work over. How do you encourage students to be creative in their learning? Why Rapid Prototypes?

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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

MARCH 6, 2015

Rows of seats still persist in the classrooms of many schools, and direct instruction still holds sway. Photo from JISC Website PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 One size never did fit everyone. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Every story is a lesson, and every lesson can be a story. I sometimes use a rather dangerous demonstration in the classroom to explore visual perception. Photo by Daniel Hollister on Flickr *Yes, I know that the term 'narrative pedagogy' has been used before, but in other contexts. Stories are compelling.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 3, 2014

If this is true, then teachers have a huge opportunity to promote better learning through creativity. They could for example bring objects into the classroom as a part of a lesson to promote creative thinking and better problem solving skills. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2017

I had to drop the heavy burden of self doubt and continue as the classroom teacher and pass my final term as an NQT. Photo courtesy of Naomi Hancock Teacher Voices: Naomi Hancock 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

MARCH 12, 2017

Without schools’ tick box exercises of long marking comments, new displays each week and what feels like constant observations, I would have more time to rethink a lesson, target a specific group or just be more creative in my ideas. The 60 + hours a week quite often stops me thinking about what matters, the children. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

He turned a blind eye whenever I turned up at the back of his lessons (and should have been elsewhere). Students can now create, repurpose, share and remix content and more importantly, engage in dialogue with others beyond the walls of the classroom as a result. Who was your greatest teacher and why? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

He turned a blind eye whenever I turned up at the back of his lessons (and should have been elsewhere). Students can now create, repurpose, share and remix content and more importantly, engage in dialogue with others beyond the walls of the classroom as a result. Who was your greatest teacher and why? Unported License.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2008

Photo credit: Learn to Knit by abbynormy Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:50 PM Labels: instructional design , knitting , writing 3comments: Janet Clarey said. I havent forgotten those lessons, but the knitting lessons obviously didnt stick. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Good for you! United States License.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Photo credit: Little by MegElizabeth Posted by Cammy Bean at 6:51 PM Labels: books , instructional design 14comments: Dr. John H. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 What would you add? Or can we stop?

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It is not in my personality to invest my time and energy into long-term planning and looking at when lessons will land on the calendar. In my ideal classroom I would not spend my time writing lesson plans or grading papers. My Perfect Classroom. In fact, I am still learning. Informed Improvement. About the Author.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 17, 2009

Photo credit: tire swing by without you Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:03 AM Labels: games , parenting 5comments: Brent Schlenker said. School takes care of academics, they each play a sport (or 2), and they each takes lessons in some creative endeavor.guitar, piano, writing, coding, etc. First of all, we missed you at AG|09.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. This is a single integrated search, allowing users to bookmark their photos with private and public tags, and increasingly we will be offering advanced searching options , rating systems and other tools. Lesson plans also included.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

photo by bb_matt Alternatives to Listing Objectives Here are some of Michael Allens alternatives to listing out boring learning objectives in text bullet form: Put the Learner to Work (p. Is it a teachable moment with a lesson learned? Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. 161) Have the learner attempt a task.

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