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JULY 12, 2018

Image by Martin42 on Wikimedia Commons When I read Being Digital for the first time, way back in 1997, it slowly dawned on me that everything was about to change. We pushed the boundaries of technology, culture and human relationships as we extended digital spaces for learning into virgin territory. Rapid growth ensued.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Markus Spiske on unsplash Below are some thoughts ahead of my invited presentation at Learning Live 2019 : I have been invited to speak about digital transformation of organisations for an invited audience of industry leaders, who will predominantly be drawn from Learning and Development and Human Resources departments.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Using technology in the classroom and integrating technology for learning are two different things. The first is something that any teacher can do without much thinking, but to truly integrate technology into education takes a great deal of imagination, thinking and planning. Technology is not a substitute for good teaching.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to reading your comments. New York: The Free Press.

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MAY 30, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler This is the first of a short series of posts, presenting my thoughts leading up to a keynote speech I will give at EDEN 2019, in Bruges. The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. The metrics speak for themselves. To be continued.

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MARCH 9, 2014

Learning should always come before technology. Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Let me elaborate.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Students no longer passively absorb content, because they own personal digital devices, and they can use these to produce, organise, repurpose and share their own content. Co-production of knowledge is emerging as a new model for learning in the digital age. Students become teachers and teachers become students. Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We got on just fine because we discovered that we have a lot in common, not least of which was that we both did formal training as photographers, in the pre- digital age. The skills we had to acquire back in the day were different to the skills now required to manipulate and produce photographs in the digital age.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Photo by Loewe Technologies on unsplash There's plenty of hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential, future impact on society. Writing on CIO's Managing Innovation and Disruptive Technology website, futurist Nicholas D. Next time on Our Digital Future - 10: Cognitive courseware. Unported License.

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JULY 8, 2016

Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. Helen said that digital capability is the capacity to thrive in digital environments. Helen also argued that technology has the capability to engage and distract at many different levels.

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MARCH 28, 2014

So, for a biospheric environment, the person would use a biological body, for the Metaverse, a person would use an avatar, and for virtual reality, the person would use a digital form. Selfies and simple avatars are merely the beginning of this digital identity transformation. Blended forms of traditional and remote education followed.

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JULY 8, 2016

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. The technology has plenty of potential to be used across the curriculum, and not solely in creative arts. Personally, I can't wait.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Can technology help us to think more clearly? We find ourselves increasingly immersed in our digital worlds, surrounded by devices and tools, our minds constantly impacted by streams of new information. That wouldn''t have happened, at least not as extensively, if I did not have access to my digital tools.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Daniel Susskind - Photo by Steve Wheeler All change! Attending Learning Technologies in a completely new, yet strangely familiar venue was quite an experience. I arrived with a great deal of anticipation, because Learning Technologies always holds a lot of promise. And it didn't disappoint. And it didn't disappoint.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler I have just published a third module in my series on digital learning for the ZilLearn platform. I cover a range of themes around online learning support, and apply several well known theories to explain what is required in digital learning environments. Keep safe, keep well and stay at home!

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Andras Vas on unsplash Previous posts in this series have highlighted the importance of human intelligence and emotion in education. The future of education, in all sectors, will be a marriage of convenience between teachers and technology. AI enhanced course design is supposedly the next big development in digital education.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Schools need to plan their technology strategies very carefully. It''s about encouraging reluctant teachers to adopt, embed and apply new technology effectively within authentic teaching and learning contexts. One of the most important digital divides to overcome is the technophobia divide - the wills and the will nots.

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APRIL 5, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler It wasn't that long ago that I was approached by a new U.S. And so I agreed to write a set of four micro-learning courses (each will take less than an hour to complete) along with a video and a quiz, and some additional reading - all focusing on learning and teaching in the digital age. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Some might be aware that I established a chat for the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) a couple of years ago, which is dedicated to discussions around technology supported learning in all sectors. Our most recent #EDENchat focused on digital competencies and digital literacies, and the conversation was dynamic and fast moving.

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MARCH 22, 2016

This week #EDENchat will feature a discussion on how we use personal technologies for learning. There are many personal technologies available, including smart phones , e-books and e-readers, games consoles and laptop computers. Photo by Intel Freepress on Flickr #EDENchat: Which personal technologies? Unported License.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Photo by Airina Volungevi?ien? My opening keynote speech at the 29th annual EDEN conference at VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, Belgium earlier this week was given the title Connected pedagogies - Learning and teaching in the digital age. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Many of the modules I teach at my university deal with alternative methods of learning and teaching, and focus a great deal on new and emerging technologies. Over the next few academic years I predict that submitting assignments in alternative digital formats will become the norm. It''s a trend that will grow in pace. Unported License.

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JULY 6, 2017

It is claimed that the 'digital birth' of a child is around 6 months. This baby (6 weeks old at the time the picture was taken) seems to be accessing digital content using an iPad. This is one of many evocative images of young children using technology that have been circulating on the web recently. But is he really?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. Unported License.

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OCTOBER 28, 2012

Postmodernist views of society can be appropriated as lenses to analyse the personalised use of digital technology. Again, this is reminiscent of the random searching, scanning and jumping around content through hyperlinking that learners participate in when they traverse the digital landscape. London: Continuum. Surowiecki, J.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. 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. To me it resembles a global digital tribe. Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. It is your personal network.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

One recent disruptive innovation is mobile technology. It's astounding to think that only in recent years have we had the capability to create connected technology that can be carried with us, anywhere we go. Wearable connected technologies are now common place. Shoes that interact directly with the surface you walk upon?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler - Entrance to the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Last week you would have discovered me in the cellar of a French palace - the stylish Hotel Salomon de Rothschild , not a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The classic old building was transformed into a hi-tech conference venue for European Innovation Day.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Photo from Pxhere I had the pleasure to do an speak with Sophie Bailey recently, when we recorded a session for Edtech Podcast. An apple for teacher by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Have a listen. Unported License.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

It's all technology driven. From robots with personalities and artificial intelligence, to 750 mph trains and exotically powered space vehicles that will take us to the planets; new food technologies and farming methods ( floating farms ?) Many technologies are possible, but not all technologies are expedient.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Learners with digital technology can discover for themselves, and drive their own learning, but it will be less structured than formal educational processes. It is exploratory, rule-less and rhizomatic , where the learner discovers for herself any number of divergent nodes of knowledge, and random corridors of travel. Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In my slides (which as I write have topped 110,000 views on SlideShare) I mention the four trends that have been recognised in educational technology in the last 30 years. Pervasive technology is constantly connected, always available and ubiquitous. The longer the child stands holding up the device, the more information will be sent.

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MAY 30, 2017

Millennials apparently, are technologically savvy, civicly conscious, nomadic, impatient, multi-tasking and natural team workers. We might as well return to the dark ages when people still believed there were dragons, unicorns and digital natives. The result is below, watch out for the most excellent typo! Unported License.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning.

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