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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with e's

I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. Please join us at 2000 BST to contribute to the discussion. Unported License.

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Maker pedagogy

Learning with e's

Here''s a video (made by Oliver Quinlan) of two of my undergrad students discussing what they learnt in the act of creating personal blogs: To reach the point where they can start establishing a maker culture in their classrooms, teachers often need to undergo a reboot of their mindsets. Unported License.

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Technology makes a difference

Learning with e's

Even if we disregards the highly successful phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses , there is an ever expanding menu of content that covers just about every subject and theme under the sun, available for free online. But what about the question of whether technology improves learning? Unported License.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. Participants can join in and leave at any time, as the rolling programme of keynotes, discussions, panels and seminars/workshops plays out in real time on screen. Unported License.

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All you need is love

Learning with e's

More songs, poems, stories and movies have been written about love than any other subject under the sun. Collaborative learning is on the rise in modern pedagogy, because teachers have discovered that children tend to learn more when they discuss, compare and contrast their ideas. It took them years to reconcile their differences.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with e's

It is now possible to find content on just about any subject under the sun, simply by searching and finding it on the Web. Several decades ago, we started to discuss other aspects of distance - the temporal separation of teachers and students and how this could be bridged, overcome. We are gazing into a very exciting future.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Objection to Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Chirs.Thanks for stopping by and adding some great points to the discussion. Such an interesting discussion on learning objectives. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 1:46 PM Cammy Bean said. Very dramatic.and a great escape option for your prisoners.