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Bear pit pedagogy

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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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What do online educators need?

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Correspondence course, radio, television, video, the Web, computers and smart phones - each in turn has been harnessed to reach students for education that are traditionally outside of the traditional learning space. Unported License. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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A growing divide?

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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.

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Going to the wall

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In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods.

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6 interactive whiteboard tips

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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. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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eXSpace exploration

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

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Learning in round spaces

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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.