Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2012

He made several interesting points about the blurring of boundaries between public and private (think of webcams and Facebook status updates for example) and that technology tends to distract us from 'who we are'. There has been some debate over whether or not people should combine their personal and business social media identities.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2019

An email pops up on your desktop screen asking for your 'urgent' attention, Facebook messenger pings on your smartphone telling you someone has responded to your earlier status update. The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. That never worked in the student bar and it won''t work on Facebook. When I''m invited in to a Facebook group or Google Hangout, I tend to lurk until asked a direct question.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Most of us are connected to each other through numerous social media platforms. Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. (Lessig, 2005, p. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2015

Some are ditching their training rooms in favour of digital delivery of content, and bosses that are forward thinking are investing in social learning, social media and mobile devices to support the learning of their employees. So don't turn your backs on social media in the workplace.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

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. They see it as a means to engage learners, and as a way of making connections between school curricula and familiar territory. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the digital literacies I identified in yesterday's blogpost was effective social networking. Most of us have a Facebook account, and maybe a LinkedIn account too. What else do we need to learn about social networking that can help us or our students to learn better? So what's the big deal about this?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Answer - they were scanning for mentions of KLM on Twitter and other social media. It simply involves a KLM staff member regularly scanning the popular social media channels to intervene if there is any bad publicity or complaint, before it blows up into something unmanageable. But how did KLM know to respond to my tweet?

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

The biggest surprise for me so far has been social media: it is the biggest thing in the last ten years to hit the world of learning technology. You already mentioned social media as one of the most important technologies that have changed learning. What has been the biggest surprise in the last years?

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Marcia Conner

MARCH 28, 2013

Yesterday I participated in two fabulous webinars, each with a different focus, yet both with social learning themes. During each I was asked about some of the tools I use personally to get the most from social media–and ultimately learn as much as I can. I learn from it every day! I learn from it every day!

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. More is becoming known about the effects the changing Web is exerting upon teaching and learning. Yesterday's post can be found at this link.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In essence, it is the ability to be able to create content, organise, share and communicate across, and through, a variety of social media, discussion groups, mobile tools and other services that are commonly available. In LinkedIn, I manage a professional version of my persona, which evaporates when I'm on Facebook.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2012

Technology (in the form of mobile telephones) has changed the way we communicate with each other, and social networking services such as Facebook have made similar advances in the way we relate to our friends and family. They are being encouraged to communicate more effectively through podcasts, videos and on social networking sites.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2013

Some of these divides are socio-economic, others are technical based on geographical location, still others are about willingness to engage, or the skill to be able to use tools effectively. My 83 year old father made the mistake of breaking some bad news on Facebook, and supplementing it with LOL. Literacies rach beyond skills.

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

Peer or Social Feedback. In a training context, you can use collaborative and social media tools to give and receive peer feedback from colleagues. For example, if you were designing a course for new coaches, you could set up a Facebook Group page for discussion. Cho and Cho, 2011). Explanatory Feedback.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

I'm always asking myself the question - what do my students need to know to be able to use the web effectively? Watch your back by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 This is aligned to e-safety, which is about protecting people online. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. For further details, please visit the EDEN Conference website.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 31, 2011

In this first of my 10Q posts, I interview David Mitchell, Deputy Head Teacher of Heathfield Community Primary School in Bolton, who talks about his hopes and aspirations for schools in the future, and how social media tools such as blogs, and his concept of QuadBlogging are having a positive impact on primary education at an international level.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Learning with e's

MAY 28, 2012

Digital Futures: Innovations in Mobile Learning View more PowerPoint from Steve Wheeler There is no denying that at its heart much good learning has a social component. Earlier today in a meeting with one of our training staff, I argued that e-learning needs a social learning element. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Understanding the Tools of the Social Learning Landscape - Free as in Freedom , November 2, 2010I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape. Mark’s focus is to look at social media tools, their impact on an organisation’s culture. My conclusion?

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E-Learning Acupuncture

OCTOBER 30, 2007

They could effectively used as ‘pre-labs’ to prepare students for a real life lab. It’s an Open Learning Initiative, which is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The Reflective Teacher CCK08: Facebook for Academics CCK08: The most successful network in history! Supplements. Are educat.

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Mindflash

APRIL 26, 2012

.” That’s one of the best definitions of social learning I’ve seen, and I use it as an example not only because of what it says, but more specifically for what it doesn’t say. You hear the phrase “social media” come up alarmingly frequently in conversations and presentations about social learning.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2011

Earlier today on Twitter I said: 'To use any social media to its full potential in education you must venture beyond the classroom.' To achieve its optimum effect, the use of any social media - whether it be blogging, wikis or any other form of sharing of content - must breach the walls of the traditional learning space.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

(It's often the case on social media that some are unable to frame their arguments without a personal dig at their opponents). Sugata Mitra shared the link to my blogpost on his Facebook page (thanks Sugata) with the words: 'An emotional piece from Steve Wheeler.' Let's start with one of the major fomenters of this debate.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

When I wrote Blogging with Freire , I was speculating on what that great Brazilian educator and theorist might have made of educational blogging - a concept he never knew, because he died before the Internet and social media came in to common use. Learning by asking questions is not only fun, it''s effective.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 22, 2014

Changing the learning landscape is a one day workshop on social media and learning in higher education that will be held at the University of Warwick on April 24. Digital literacies (human attributes) and technology must work in tandem if we are to ensure the safe, appropriate and effective use of any social media tool.

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