Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Just about every day I find myself embroiled in a discussions about fundamentals of learning, the nature of knowledge and the processes of education. The manipulation of tools, a very specific human activity, carries with them an accumulation of cultural and social knowledge. This is known as the zone of proximal development (ZPD).

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2012

But information should not be confused with knowledge. Knowledge comes about through learning and through the diligent application of information. Anyone who is interested in learning will also be interested in cognition and its relationship to knowledge. Access to information is one thing. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

Learning is essentially a social activity, where people scaffold and extend each other’s knowledge gain [ 54 ], but in recent years, new theories have emerged to explain distributed forms of learning that have been made possible through mobile technology and social media. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2016

You know, the fact that each of us can only learn so much on our own, but with a More Knowledgeable Other person by our side, we can learn that much more. In the digital age, it is commonplace to connect into a Community of Practice that reflects or represents our interests. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2012

No matter what we learn, our knowledge, skills (and also our attitudes) are usually externalised in some kind of outward expression. The answer of course, is no - we continue to become, because we do not stop learning and we continue to perform our knowledge. But this curriculum extends beyond conversation into community.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There are numerous examples of technology reshaping educational practices and creating new opportunities for the sharing of knowledge. Photo by JISC Learning comes first 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

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

As we get older, we consolidate what we have learnt, modifying our knowledge and skills as new information and techniques become known to us. Learning is also changing because we can contribute to knowledge on a global scale. The human race still has an innate desire to discover, to survive, to innovate, to explore. Unported License.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2013

measures) of understanding and ''performance of knowledge'' will be available." Photo by Steve Wheeler Mobile learning and personal metrics by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 More on this tomorrow. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Connected educators know that in doing this they become global educators, with their content being amplified across a worldwide community of practice. Connected educators are transparent in their thinking and tend to reflect more deeply on what they learn, simply because they have had to make the effort to connect with new knowledge.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2014

How it can be applied in education Teacher should consider offering their students experiences that place them outside of their normal comfort zones, so that they are challenged not only about how they apply their existing knowledge and skills, but also around their attitudes and fundamental beliefs. Kolb Experiential Learning Cycle 23.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Norman took this idea and argued that knowledge not only resides in our heads, but also in the world around us. That is, not all knowledge for skilled actions needs to be inside your head. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. It can also be present in the design of the objects you use to perform the skill.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

That's why we encourage our students to critically engage with course material, and then to extend their knowledge by creating their own additional content around it. Image source Bear pit pedagogy by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Here I do not refer to any hard artificial intelligence model of computation, but rather a description of the manner in which networked, intelligent systems respond to the needs of individual learners within vast communities of practice. Each learner will become a nexus of knowledge, and a node of knowledge production.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a type of copyright license wherein the creator of the content still retains the rights but allows others to use it free of charge with certain stipulations. Use of Creative Commons content is already pre-authorized with the terms and conditions set by the owner.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Piaget believed that children developed along these lines by exploring their world more or less independently, assimilating new information, and accommodating it into previously formed knowledge, to construct their mental models of the world, which he identified as schemas. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 3, 2011

But if you invest time and effort developing a network of critical friends and knowledgeable experts, it will pay you back a hundredfold. There is more to learning than simply taking in knowledge, and more to a course than its content. The ability to connect into and engage with global communities of practice is unprecedented.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 15, 2015

The fact that anyone can connect with anyone else in the world, and can tap into any community of practice they are interested in, is very powerful. Ever since we learnt to communicate through speech, we have been devising new ways to convey our thoughts, to amplify them and to disseminate our knowledge, ideas and beliefs.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Further, personal devices enable individuals to gain access and to participate at many levels within their communities of practice, from ‘entering by learning’ through to ‘transcending by developing’ (Ryberg & Christiansen, 2008). 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning? Unported License.

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Mindflash

MAY 10, 2012

Design New Hire Classes as Communities of Practice. If a community of practice is a group of people who come together with a shared interest and work as a group to improve, why couldn’t a group of newly hired employees organization as a CoP with the common interest in learning what they need to do their job?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Knowledge can be spread faster now that ever, through such handheld, accessible applications. Will we see a greater emphasis on communities of practice as a result of mobile tools and technologies? Airdropping will also allow you to share content such as videos, photos or locations with your mates. Undoubtedly. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Alternatively referred to as hackerspaces or hacklabs, makerspaces are based on the principles of peer learning and knowledge sharing. You have probably noticed at this point just how similar this approach to learning is to work based learning practices. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

They can draw upon archived content written by experts, or upon the live expertise of knowledgeable members within their professional learning network. Ambient learning 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

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. Image source Content creation by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The speed at which you respond is dependent on your knowledge. Semantic networks operate on the principle that knowledge can best be represented as a set of concepts that are related to each other. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Jahoda Ideal Mental Health 20. Koffka Gestalt theory 21. Knowles Andragogy 24.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Knowledge of your field is not enough though. Probably the best form of critical thinking emerges from dialogue within the community of practice. 1997) Being Critical: Education, knowledge and action research. Critical thinking is crucial to the process. It follows that critical writing comes from critical thinking.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogging has emerged in recent years as a strong contender for the number one spot as user generated content, driven as it is by people who are both passionate and knowledgeable. How much poorer would we be in terms of knowledge of the world? But it's not plain sailing. What if these blogs did not exist? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In some of my previous slide presentations and blog posts I have quoted Karen Stephenson , who believes we now 'store our knowledge in our friends'. Finally, social networking skills will require each user to also be adept at connecting with new friends and fellow community members. Unported License.

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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. For me, knowledge is like love: You can give it away as much as you like but you still get to keep it. Unported License.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Here's what came up.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 3, 2008

In my day I was hired more because of my technical skills and less because of the degree and ISD knowledge. I focused on Communities of Practice and learned quite a bit. Where would you suggest someone start if they were looking to get that type of ID knowledge, without paying the price tag for an ID degree?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

In essence, blogging crystallised my thinking, and extended the scope of my knowledge. Often this kind of dialogue can be the quite productive in terms of personal learning, and as an added bonus, as you and others engage, you are together helping to educate your entire community of practice. But the best was yet to come.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2011

Anyone who hoards knowledge in today's connected society is deluding themselves that that can actually benefit them in any way. My awesome PLN by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Give what you have learnt away. Share it with your friends. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

These two technologies, once combined, have opened up endless global networks of like-minded professionals, communities of practice and connections to virtually limitless resources. No previous generation has had access to as much knowledge as we have today. The opportunities learners now enjoy are unprecedented.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We're trying to move away from this model to a natural knowledge access and practice model. People know how to read and when packaged well articles can be pretty effective when combined with appropriate media activities, presentations, and practice opportunities. United States License. Template by Tina Chen.

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