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Python's got legs!

Learning with e's

If you're a computing teacher your ears will prick up at this. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. If you're familiar with Purple Mash , you'll notice some similarities. Python definitely has legs.

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Games based learning

Learning with e's

They are often 'in the flow' and don't have any hang ups about expressing themselves. He is interested in mashups - where augmented reality can be embedded within games. Dawn uses an innovative combination of tools including the Nintendo Wii, to engage kids in scenarios that take on a 3D immersion effect. Long may it continue.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

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. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.'

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with e's

Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. It returns to the EDUPUNK ethos where instead of resisting the chaos, we engage with it, opening up a pedagogy of uncertainty, in a do-it-yourself style education.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

Learning Visions

This allows the learner to be more flexible in her understanding of the material, so that she can effectively apply it to concepts in the real world (knowledge transfer). Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Makes sense. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Virtual classrooms and smart-boards are used in a more student-centered way (not putting all the attention to one person up-front=bad). open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Here's what came up. Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do!

Learning Visions

We’re not talking about “dressing up&# content to fake that it’s engaging. Mash this up with the chat and you practically have the whole session. This is the same stuff that many in the learning field are already picking up on. SO glad you picked up on that. Nice capture, Cammy. Thank you!