Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2012

The important concept we wanted to talk about was communities of learning, and how students can use social media tools to participate in them. I talked about connectivism, paragogy, heutagogy and other emerging theories that seek to explain how we learn in new digitally rich environments. Unported License.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Yet in recent years, with the proliferation and equalisation of knowledge and the strengthening of social connections through digital media, new theories such as connectivism and paragogy have emerged to challenge the central place of ZPD in contemporary pedagogical theory. Thirdly, learning needs to be globalised. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 19, 2014

If this is the case, then our simulacra might indeed represent new and emerging versions of ourselves, versions that would be impossible or improbable without the affordances of our technologies. Photo by Steve H on Flickr Digital habitus by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

All around, communities and families were also there for informal learning processes to be supported. Around this time many new disciplines began to emerge. Probably the most disruptive technology to emerge over the last few years is the computer. It hasn't always been like this. We can also manipulate context. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

With titles such as 'Hyperconnected Communities of Practice', 'Connection and Disruption' and 'Knowledge Networks', I hope you can see where I'm taking the book. Digital learning in organisations 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

JANUARY 11, 2019

It's a professional community of educators interested in technology supported learning. New teaching and learning methods and techniques and new pedagogical theories have emerged, and those of us who inhabit the world of education and training have witnessed disruption (both positive and detrimental) on a vast scale. It's everywhere.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

At the social end of the spectrum, these tools can offer infrastructures to benefit the entire community, whilst at a personal level, each students will be potentially able to benefit. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 I can see the point in this. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design. The same might be said about the way communities form, create their preferred ways of communication and decide their priorities. How often do we impose pathways upon students which do not meet their needs, or fit their expectations?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 22, 2018

The first was when I was working as a manager in the National Health Service and heard about a new university project that placed new and emerging technologies into the hands of local communities. I have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time on several key occasions during my career. Unported License.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Another emerging theme is the idea of innovation - and the question of how teachers can break out of the rut they sometimes mire themselves within. Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Unported License.

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APRIL 1, 2014

, the rewards are that your ideas are quickly ''out there'' in public, and can be discussed, built upon, challenged and otherwise explored by your professional peers, your community of practice. It gives others in your wider community of practice a clearer view of who you are, what you do, and most importantly, what you think.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In recent years a variety of new explanatory theories have been generated that can be applied as lenses to critically view, analyse and problematise new and emerging forms of learning. These facets of modern life in combination have led educators to question the validity of pre-digital age learning theories. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Increasingly, the effect of the global connected mind will emerge as a social phenomenon. To be a truly globally connected community, we must learn to work together, freely share and exchange our ideas and resources, and ultimately, teach each other about the world around us. There are representations of this in popular culture.

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MARCH 16, 2014

This is why networked learning, and communities of practice are so important. I believe this video series will become a significant resource that helps us to define our new and emerging identities and make sense of how we relate to each other within digital environments. Everyone knows something, but nobody knows everything.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 17, 2013

It is also embedded in communities capable of intimate and natural interaction with students." If mobile devices can be freely harnessed, we can expect to see exciting new developments in education and the emergence of new forms of learning. Any organisation that refuses to support this kind of learning is myopic. Unported License.

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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. It is your personal network.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2019

Photo by Nick Morrison on unsplash Language, like all forms of human communication, tends to evolve as each new generation uses it. It can be argued that language was the first human technology, a means developed by our ancestors to communicate within communities (Wheeler, 2015). Wheeler, S. Carmarthen: Crown House.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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JUNE 4, 2019

2008) Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures. Connected pedagogy: Shared minds by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 1954) Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper and Row. Wheeler, S. Charlotte, NC: Information Age. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Social media are enabling learners everywhere to connect and work together with each other, forming convenient communities and networks of shared interest. has seen as shift toward user generated content, and the emergent property of folksonomies. The full power of the Learning 2.0 Where Learning 1.0 Learning 3.0 Unported License.

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Coursy

AUGUST 26, 2022

An integration of blogs, wikis, content management systems (plone), simple social tools (skype), networking tools (Orkut), collaborative spaces (groove, and acollab), and the use of emerging "connection-making" protocols like RSS and Atom. Networks do work: learning communities/networks/ecologies. Note that it was written in 2004.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This content is generated not only by the experts, but also increasingly by the learners themselves, and tends to be organised by the community rather than by the experts. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One theory that has emerged from the social constructivist school, Activity Theory , suggests that all learning is shaped and motivated by social influences (Engeström et al , 1999). by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Tools also play a part in what we learn.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

My current cohort of computing and ICT specialists during a seminar A new breed of teachers is emerging. He is also keen on sharing his ideas and expertise within the professional community. This next generation of educators are just as determined to make a difference as previous generations of teachers. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

QR codes have polarised the education community over their usefulness. Slowly over the last few years, educational uses have begun to emerge, with some pedagogical applications already being tried out in authentic contexts. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. I will offer some examples of how Web 2.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

It revealed that new economies and ecologies were emerging from the digital age that would require a radical adjustment to our societal mindset. Photo by CCMSharm2 on Wikimedia Commons What does it mean to be digital today? Very soon thereafter, social networks and then social media began to arrive. If you were, you were geography.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2014

was emerging. Ivan Illich envisioned a community (or network) of learners that was self-sufficient. These ideals were captured in quite pragmatic architectural and city planning terms by Alexander et al (1977) when they conceived of a society where community leaders could. ".work What would Illich have made of the social web?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

In the digital age, where we are surrounded by new and emerging technologies, pedagogical theories and practices are in need of change. We will also witness the growth of ambient and transient learning communities, which will spring up and thrive for a specific purpose, and then disappear again just as quickly. Unported License.

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Mindflash

APRIL 16, 2012

What’s important about the emergence of these “flipped” curricula is that instructors have an opportunity to work more closely with learners than ever before. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user jurvetson. But the point is still the same. don’t change in a flipped setting.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

How it can be applied in education The theory of contructionism is experiencing something of a revival in recent years with the emergence of maker spaces , robotics, 3D printing and other tools that can promote the making of objects. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Another key theme to emerge from Piaget''s theory of stage development is the idea of ''readiness'', where children are expected be able to cope with incremental rises in complexity and abstraction as they mature. 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

JULY 15, 2015

In fact my specialism never ceases to amaze me, because there is always something new to learn, some new technology, app or software tool that is emerging, or some new theory or model that is being proposed. Social media, in all its forms, is I believe, one of the greatest innovations ever to impact on the world of learning, in all sectors.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Groom is also responsible for coining the term ' EDUPUNK ', a nod to the remixing and do-it-yourself culture that has emerged in recent years in education as a refection of the 1970s punk music scene. Over 500 people's blogs were aggregated onto the central ds106 website, and the creativity was supported further. Cue applause.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Some virtual clanships are emerging through the choice of social networking service – WhatsApp users are distinctly different in many small ways to their counterpart clans who subscribe to Facebook, who are again different to those who use Instagram. Always connected 4. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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