Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Over the next few academic years I predict that submitting assignments in alternative digital formats will become the norm. How difficult is it for example, to put a voice-over track or a music track onto a video, or overlay captions? Photo from Wikimedia Commons Digital assignments: How shall we grade them?

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I am a learning technologist based at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia where I have been based for four years. The strong visual style has been augmented by photos of elite athletes in action. These photos are all open licensed Creative Commons images.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Photo by Steve Wheeler We connect with each other and with information in many ways. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. It has become a familiar scene in many industrialised cities across the globe.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. The multi-timbral nature of the smartphone gives it the capacity to capture our attention through a wide spectrum of attractions, from music and digital media, games, social media, dating sites, videos and live news streams.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It was an exciting and thought provoking, well attended event which somehow resembled a TED talk, with its large stage, bright studio lighting, music and arena style seating. Photos by FOTE A FOTE opportunity by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2014

One of the first books I ever read about digital media was Nicholas Negroponte''s Being Digital. One of the things that most struck me about Being Digital, was the distinction Nic made between atoms and bits. The atom represents physical space, content, objects, while the bit represents the digital, virtual world.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Vlogging - or video blogging - has been a growing trend, especially among the twenty-something age group, and is defining itself as a new genre of self expression in the digital ecology. Photo by Petar Miloševi? Photo by Petar Miloševi? One slide in particular resonated with me, and that was her notes on vlogging.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2013

Ever listened to a track and then delved deeper to discover the meaning behind the music? Increasingly, the use of the Internet and other digital tools is coming under the scrutiny of researchers. Others are more positive about the effects and influence of digital technology on learning. If you have, then you are not alone.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2013

Zittrain is worried about the possibilities of ''censoring, erasing, altering or restricting access to books'', and argues that digital texts are ''increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers or libraries.'' So what is the future for digital text? He has a point. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Games literacy will become increasingly important, because the games based experience is modular and non-linear, participatory and customisable - reflecting much of our experiences in the digital era. These match some of the key skills required to succeed in the world of work where digital technology is prevalent.' ( source ).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Games literacy will become increasingly important, because the games based experience is modular and non-linear, participatory and customisable - reflecting much of our experiences in the digital era. These match some of the key skills required to succeed in the world of work where digital technology is prevalent.' ( source ).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

The title of the book was ' Being Digital ' and the author was Nicholas Negroponte. This premise, written in the middle of the 90s, looked forwards to a time when newspapers, movies, music, television, photography, and a host of other media would reside exclusively within the digital domain. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These are the digital generation, who have been immersed in technology, and although they may not be fully educated in its use, they are none-the-less expectant that universities and organisations will embed these tools into their experience. The implications for this in the context of digital literacies is clear. He should know this.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 26, 2015

Amy has taken popular songs, rewritten the lyrics about specific periods in European history, and has then created new music videos for educational purposes. But History Teachers is just one of the many contributions Amy has made to digital learning in the past few years. What inspires me most about Amy Burvall? Watch this space!

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2013

Each programme features an interview with a celebrity, who is invited to bring a list of their 8 favourite music tracks and during the show they talk about why they chose them, thereby giving their listening audience an insight into their lives. The secret of the programme is in its simplicity. 6) My iPhone. What have I left out?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2013

The event attracts learning technologists, lecturers, researchers, teachers, learning professionals, health and medical staff, private trainers, and just about anyone who is interested in the very latest in digital pedagogies, literacies and technologies. The price for the evening isn't bad either - at only £40.00 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 18, 2015

One contemporary example is the digital camera. Digital technology has advanced photography into areas that were previously considered impossible. Another area that has been disrupted is music. Television has also been revolutionised by digital. Few places remain today where you can still buy an analogue camera.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2015

Knowledge can be represented in many forms on the web including through still or moving image sequences, text and spoken words, music, and of course through hypertext. It can be unpredictable, chaotic, but essentially purposeful, as learners navigate their way across the digital terrain, discovering for themselves. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. I lead a team of academics who are engaged in developing the next generation of teachers.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I also chair the Faculty’s Digital Learning Futures group which is there to think about and develop new responses to the needs of education, including the integration of new and emerging technologies, and the development of new learning spaces. I lead a team of academics who are engaged in developing the next generation of teachers.

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Learning with e's

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. This, said Groom, is the essence of digital literacy. Photo by Steve Wheeler Good morning Barcelona!! Cue applause.

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gomo learning

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Secondly, the site promotes community involvement: recognition is given through a leaderboard, and photographers can enter themed challenges, all motivating the creation of more photos. As well as the usual categorization via topic, you can easily select photos, vectors or illustrations, in various orientations, sizes, or colors.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Photo credit: Walls have Ears by laverrue Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:24 PM Labels: audio 13comments: Archana Narayan said. For this reason there is quite a creative community growing around digital audio as a device to facilitate learning. and what can we do now that we have digital voices that we couldnt do so well before?

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Doodle Library – hundreds of unique hand-drawn SVG doodles – free to download, share and adapt under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Just upload a photo or a gradient as a source and let them do the rest. Photos & Graphics. New Old Stock – a collection of vintage photos from public archives.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 26, 2018

Music, a song, a thud, a crash, a clank or a swish might be just the right sound to make your training stick. Join this follow-up to Copyright Basics for Trainers: Selecting Images and Music That Won’t Break the Budget—Or the Law and dig deeper into how to find the perfect sound. Discussion topics include: Digital transformation.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2015

I thought it might be a cool band name, but given I have no musical talent, I reserved the domain and settled for a blog. None of this happens in an LMS (or VLE), in fact, that systematic design of that system is anathema to all of these crucial elements of educating in the digital era. The rest is the underground history of the web.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2014

For those who don''t, it''s a free digital knowledge repository that holds over 30 million articles in more than 280 languages. Photo by Twose Wikipedia: A Marxist perspective by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

If he had seen them, what might Freinet have made of digital technology, and what would he have said about social media in education? Others support their students to develop apps or other digital stuff which can be sold online through established retailers. He certainly believed in using technology in education. 5) Democratic Method.

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