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JANUARY 5, 2017

This certainly gives me more ideas for blog posts over the next year, and leaves me with hope that blogging is still a powerful and effective means of conveying ideas, engaging communities of practice and sharing resources. The series attracted a combined total of over 21,000 views. Unported License.

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JULY 30, 2016

Digital forms of scaffolding emerge where learners access new knowledge using personal devices [ 55 ]. Another emerging theory relates to the increasing mutability of knowledge in the digital age. Proposed by Siemens [ 58 ], ‘connectivism’ suggests that knowledge now resides in the network as well as in the minds of those who use it.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Another theory derived from social constructivism has been proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) who argue that the formation of communities of practice can explain much of the informal learning that occurs for example in the workplace. 2004) Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Siemens, G.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2016

In the digital age, it is commonplace to connect into a Community of Practice that reflects or represents our interests. In Lave's terms, the CoP is essential for developing our sense of purpose within our chosen community. These are questions for all educators, regardless of the age groups they are teaching.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

How it can be applied in education Social ties are crucially important in the digital age, for as Henry Jenkins argues, it''s the dynamic and participatory elements of reaffirming a group''s social ties that helps us to acquire our collective knowledge (Jenkins, 2006, p. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Lord David Puttnam , the celebrated former movie producer and Oscar winner, believes that the digital tools we now have at our disposal are driving significant changes in the way we learn. Photo by Xin Li Learning is changing by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Mobile devices also afford users the ability to annotate, organise and share content once they have found it, within their community of interest. The second principle is perhaps even more interesting and relates to personal metrics: "As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

I have been blogging, writing and talking about our digital learning futures for some time. In the digital age, where we are surrounded by new and emerging technologies, pedagogical theories and practices are in need of change. education social media self organised learning learning digital technology connectivisn'

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

One of the most important digital literacies students require today is the ability to create appropriate content. We learn by doing, and we more actively engage with learning when we create artefacts that can be shared within social contexts such as communities of practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

If children blog, or create digital maps of their school, or create imagery and manipulate it in a multitude of ways, they are experiencing their own influence on changing contexts, and can see the implications of their actions. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2015

The benefits are that we can all learn from each other, and can freely share our ideas, developing worldwide communities of practice that thrive on this access to knowledge. Resources such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons have advanced learning to new levels. This is a new form of literacy. Reference Putnam, R.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

You can literally tap into any community of practice that you are interested in and find people who are very clever and knowledgeable and get almost instant answers from them. Many of these 450 people were doing something new with technology and wanted to hear all about the latest digital media and technologies.

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