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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Photo by Frederick Rubensson on Flickr 'In every talk, I'm asked where I would start first in revolutionizing education (K-professional school): Answer, always. Until we change how and what we measure from 19th c productivity norms, education will deliver a 19th c product.' HERDSA Review of Higher Education, Vol 1. Assessment.

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APRIL 19, 2017

To be effectively measured, these objectives must be framed in terms of the ABCD guidelines proposed by educational psychologist and theorist Robert Mager to include: A = Audience. Image: “ Bullseye ” by Emilio Kuffer, via Flickr Creative Commons License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 23, 2020

As education becomes more flexible, and students learn at any time and in any place, so the data generated by these activities needs to be rationalised, centralised and applied consistently. When asked which technology they thought might have the most impact on their effectiveness, 64 per cent selected school management information systems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Despite, or possibly because of, his own irregular early education he focused on learning as an important activity in life. Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. Shaw was also a lifelong learner.

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2019

The conversation turned to music, my songwriting and performances with various bands during the 80s and 90s. He said that many educators could benefit from listening more to music, and especially playing an instrument, because timing, pacing and spacing were often lacking in formalised learning settings. 2) Performance is connection.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2019

Often vaunted as the 'next big thing' in training and education, critics suggest that VR has proven to be expensive, difficult to deploy and may present health issues. Makeshift reality 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

DECEMBER 16, 2016

My most recent post featured locus of control theory, and today's post is about the Pygmalion Effect in education. The theory Robert Rosethal and Leonora Jacobson conducted studies in American schools during the 1960s focused on the effect teachers can have on the learning performances of children.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

When it comes to supporting a student''s progress, showing them what they can do to improve, or perform better is the key. Below are a small selection of the videos my own second year teacher education students have made this week around the theme of learning theories. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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. However, replacing some aspects of what teachers do is both effective and inevitable. "AI AI enhanced course design is supposedly the next big development in digital education.

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

You'll also need to be convincing if you want to put your arguments across effectively. Use your entire body to perform your presentation - hand movements and facial expressions can convey a lot of meaning. Pause for dramatic effect if required. You want your speech to be memorable, inspiring and thought provoking.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 23, 2012

As far as Papert is concerned, learning in this manner is important because it is a departure from transmission models of education, enabling us to construct and reconstruct knowledge in our own unique ways. This remains a very effective learning device - children love the idea of robots, and enjoy being able to control them.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." This influences our expectations as consumers of knowledge, and it will influence the way teachers will educate in the future. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. My most recent post examined Stanley Milgram''s experiments on obedience to authority and their application in education. Previous posts in this series are all linked below.

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Mindflash

MAY 1, 2012

Right now I’m working on a new education program for our sales team that I call The Art of Questioning. By understanding how an employee spends his day, the educator can identify whether their performance is a result of being well-matched to their job, or whether they may requires further skills training.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

There is a door at one end, some windows on one side, and at the front end stands the teacher, in exactly the right place to direct the educational process. Think for example of theatre that is performed ''in the round''. The action happens in the middle of the room, and all those who participate face inwards towards the performance.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2014

If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. Encouraging students to go away, and learn something deeply enough to be able to teach it, is something we have been doing in Higher Education for years.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

Learning through digital media, says US educator Douglas Thomas , means that children are not only critical consumers of knowledge, but also producers of new knowledge. Schools (along with other educational institutions) should also be knowledge production centres. This is exactly what the Quadblogging kids are doing. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2013

Some commentators hold the belief that searching for content online is ''dumbing down'' education. Tara Brabazon for example argues that internet education is poisoning teaching and learning (see for example her book Digital Hemlock ) and builds the case for a return to more traditional values of education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

SMART's Learning Suite , for example, is a useful online resource that shows how educators can get the best out of their IWBs. Building training time into the school year for educators is rarely time wasted. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies. Reference Wheeler, S. and Winter, A.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

Shirky''s book delivers that message strongly, and there are clear implications for education, especially where groups use new tools to promote change. For educators, the question is how much of this potential we can harness within formal learning contexts. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 18, 2014

I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my most recent post I featured Hull''s Drive Reduction theory and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore the work of Bärbel Inhelder on deductive reasoning.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 30, 2015

I firmly believe that if we are to reform education we need the help of technology. Technology in itself is not enough to solve all of the problems inherent in education, but in concert with new pedagogies, visionary educators, and strong leadership, change can, and does happen. As such we should make it mundane.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

One social anthropologist in particular might have had a great deal to say about the Facebook effect. It is a kind of ''performance'' where we conceal unpleasant or undesirable aspects of our personae, whilst emphasising desirable and more attractive attributes to our ''audience'' of others. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2015

Here''s what Wikipedia says (and it''s accurate): In education, ipsative assessment is the practice of assessing present performance against the prior performance of the person being assessed. Ipsative assessment is used in everyday life, and features heavily in physical education and also in computer games.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It would certainly help if those who were in charge of running our education systems were former teachers. In England, the current Education Secretary - not a teacher - is considering introducing (or rather re-introducing) testing for 7 year-olds. Ultimately, it will indicate how far off the pace we are in the world education rankings.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Teaching knowledge/comprehension-based subjects are more effective if the content is highly structured. The concept is simple: one tool can't do it all without losing functionality.

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

Lots of employees dread company education. They dread it because often we, as educators, don’t create compelling or engaging programs. There is some company-specific education employees must have: training on computer systems, operational or service processes, compliance issues, etc.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Some LMSs offer advanced features that support performance management and social learning opportunities. Common with higher education institutions, a MOOC has an instructor, includes beginning and end dates over a series of weeks, and all participants start together and go through the learning experience together.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2017

primary education degree programme what they are doing now. 4) What do you consider your greatest achievement to date as an educator? 5) How can we improve education? If you were the Secretary for Education, what would be your first priorities? 10) What are the most significant challenges facing education right now?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

For centuries, innovative teachers have been trying to find other more effective methods of pedagogy that can take the place of lecturing and instruction. It can be in the form of a video, or presentation, or role play, or even a blues song (be creative). Just as long as they ''perform'' their work in front of an audience.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2015

An interesting psychological study by Rosenthal and Jacobson back in the 1960s showed the problems and benefits that can occur in education when we label children. The Pygmalion effect , as it''s known can be beneficial. If teachers ascribe great expectations onto their students, those students tend to perform better as a result.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The lecture my colleague Phil Selbie presented this week to my final year primary education students was quite unusual in a number of ways. To start off, he played Tina Turner''s pop anthem , got everyone clapping along, and he even performed a bit of a dance too. Photo by Hu Totya on Wikimedia Commons What''s love got to do with it?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It was a distinct honour to be invited to keynote, and I spoke on one of my favourite (and probably most dangerous) of topics - the future of education. 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.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 18, 2012

What is popular, effective, and attention-getting? Are performance expectations established and managed? They then use the information to build a sound strategy, to educate, train, and prepare their employees, and to develop an emotional connection with their customers to advance loyalty. Where are they moving to, or from?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I''m able to organise my content effectively using other specific tools. Still others enable me to perform mundane and repetitive tasks while freeing me up to concentrate on the more important things that demand my attention during the day. WWW Technology Personal Learning Network education learning mind tools cognitive technology'

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 8, 2011

It is comforting and reassuring - but also somewhat disconcerting - to attend an international event on education, and discover that whatever problems you experience in your own system are also present in just about every other education system in the world. We all need to row in the same direction. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

An enormous amount of things need changing and a great deal of reform needs to be done, particularly in the compulsory education sector. So education sits where it is with little or no forward movement and it stagnates. Some go all the way through secondary school, still unable to effectively express themselves in writing.

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