Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If they do, then they aren't teaching. Good, effective teachers are intuitive, empathetic and responsive to the needs of their students. They get to know their charges well, finding creative ways to help them to learn optimally, engaging them with methods and activities designed to draw out the best performances.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 4, 2018

Effective pedagogy not only has impact, it's contagious. Often, in my own practice, if I witness a good method or technique, I adopt it myself. It was a simple question: Why are we expected to standardise our testing when we have differentiated in our teaching? I develop it and apply it to my own professional context.

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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. We learn by teaching. Ask students to peer-teach. Even better, get them to teach you something you don''t already know about. This is not new of course.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Whatever your philosophy regarding frontal teaching methods and the uses of Smartboards, there’s no denying two facts: Smartboards have become extremely popular tools in educational institutions & are relatively expensive and eat major portions out of our shrinking school budgets. 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

One of my methods is to provoke a discussion with students and then summarise their comments and arguments on the board. Another method is to get students to use the board to present their ideas. Hopefully we can start a discussion thread about the effectiveness of different technologies, media and tools for education!

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." We will fail if we attempt to use new tools while we teach in the same the old ways. He's right. These are initial thoughts.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Later I witnessed the use of video as a feedback method for student teachers on practice. We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. No wonder video is considered by many teachers to be so effective.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2018

For those who object to my use of the term '21st Century', consider that many schools still teach from a 20th Century curriculum, and need to be reminded that each and every child in school today was born in this century, while every existing teacher was born and educated in the last century. We are all in this together. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What they teach is more fragmented than it was [.] They give a child a strong sense of cause and effect, of one thing leading to another. Also, they help a child to feel that he makes a difference, that he can have some effect on the world around him. i.e. not connected with anything else, and hence meaningless. [.]

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

As I have previously argued, I believe summative assessment methods are only useful to mark an end to a specific period of learning, a gateway into the next stage of the learning journey (and I''m not convinced we should even be doing this in many cases). One recent assessment method I have used is to get students to make videos.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

On the second day of the project they assembled their images and videos together, added sound effects and music, and then presented their videos to their peers and the module tutors for feedback. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history. Below is a fine example of the work they produced in their Stories without Words project.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It seems strange that although research points to their ineffectiveness as a method of learning, lectures still figure predominantly in higher education. Some academics might argue that when faced with a large group of 150 or more students, the lecture is the only viable method. Photo by Archbob on Pixabay Why lectures?

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 2 Undeniably, screencasting “has opened up… new ways of integrating classroom teaching and net-based learning.” Guest post by Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D. Introduction Bumper.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One of the questions I discussed today with some of my third year teaching students was: what is the use of school exams? And so, educators then find themselves 'teaching to the test', just so that they can give their students a better chance at passing with a reasonable grade. How much do I recall from the exams I swotted for?

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Blogging has always been one of the ways I best express my ideas, and coupled with teaching, public speaking and a number of interviews on video and through podcasting, it has been my main channel of communication and dialogue with my professional community in recent years. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

Lecturers tend to teach in the same way they themselves were taught. Yet innovative pedagogy in higher education is not prevalent, and academics are generally reluctant to change their methods. This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this post I will featuring direct quotations from legendary American psychologist Jerome S Bruner , whose work focused on the psychology of learning, pedagogical methods such as instructional scaffolding and the spiral curriculum , as well as social constructivist learning methods. Bruner, J. 1990) Acts of Meaning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Take the job of teaching - how many things do we need to do simultaneously to be an effective teacher? Learning by doing, particularly if that 'doing' is situated in work practices, is arguably one of the most effective ways of training employees effectively. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2016

However, these are still used effectively by those who desire to access educational opportunities to which they would otherwise have no access. 3) Learners need consistent, reliable access to learning materials, but also connections to peers and teachers if learning by mobile is to be effective. don't have internet capability).

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Learning with e's

APRIL 17, 2011

Max Woodtli was more pedagogical in his focus, talking about the most effective approaches to securing good learning outcomes. How we trasfer those methods into digital learning environments will determine the future of learning platforms such as Moodle, he said. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2019

As David Crystal has pointed out, the practice of texting on smartphones and in other formats of telecommunication, has spawned entirely new methods of communicating, where people change the structure and appearance of words and even entire sentences to accommodate the constraints and affordances of technology. Wheeler, S. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2016

Was there a creative difference? This led to a brief discussion on which method was the most effective - collaboration and exploration, or direct instruction? One remark was that 'there are many ways to create a box, and many methods that can be used to teach it, but ultimately, everyone still makes a box.'

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

Notwithstanding the student attention issues, I explained that video can be at its most effective when it is used in short bursts as a stimulus to enrich and extend learning, to promote discussion, encourage collaboration and to challenge students' thinking - but definitely not as a replacement for the teacher. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Some of the most effective learning methods involve students doing and making, problem solving, and playing games, all of which comply with the notion of being in a meaningful setting. There is evidence that schools are beginning to adopt authentic learning methods. This is a real challenge to many schools. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 8, 2017

She is half way through her second year of teaching. She now teaches in Berkshire where she grew up. When she found out it would be a specialised STEM primary school she was even more interested, and after a long application and interview process she secured her first teaching post at the school. degree in primary education.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2014

In effect, says Festinger, we seek to reduce our dissonance through attempting to rationalise our thoughts and beliefs and those with which they conflict. Indeed, problem based learning is thought to be one of the most effective situated learning methods. Festinger called this phenomenon cognitive dissonance. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Recently I have been teaching a research skills module to a whole year group of third year education undergraduates. There are some great exemplars of effective education from across the ages. She used a combination of sounds, imagery and mnemonics to teach the children to sing. Look, I'm being serious here - kind of).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It's a very effective method to help the audience join the dots. In language teaching, the teacher may speak a phrase at the start of the lesson, move on to develop the lesson theme and then revisit the phrase during the plenary. They introduce a seemingly random topic early on in their set, and it seems there is no relevance.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

It's a very effective method to help the audience join the dots. In language teaching, the teacher may speak a phrase at the start of the lesson, move on to develop the lesson theme and then revisit the phrase during the plenary. They introduce a seemingly random topic early on in their set, and it seems there is no relevance.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 2 Undeniably, screencasting “has opened up… new ways of integrating classroom teaching and net-based learning.” Guest post by Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D. Introduction Bumper.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We have some interesting facts that reinforce the notion of eLearning solutions as effective knowledge management tools. . The top reason is that the rapid eLearning development process bypasses the many nuances and scientific methods performed by instructional designers. Cover areas such as plagiarism and Creative Commons.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

So what legacy do we leave behind when we stop teaching? Video is also very effective for storytelling, and one of my favourite things to watch on video is documentaries. Podcasting is a popular method for conveying knowledge in audio format. Teaching is for a season. Tools to look out for: Podbean, Libsyn , Audacity.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 18, 2015

I enjoy learning about the ways people behave with technology, how they perceive technology, and how they use technology in teaching and learning. Colleagues resisted the presence of computers, because they were worried about the potential effects, and some also questioned their validity. I'm also intrigued by resistance to change.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The bottom line is this: In the UK, exams are used by Government more to provide indicators of school effectiveness than they are for providing students with qualifications. There are many better methods of tracking student progress than exams. Many assessment methods are substantially more effective in assessing for learning.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

When in fact, that may have some value and people may pick up some new ways of thinking that will help their attitude, but sales training, to be effective, really has to be targeted at specific behaviors that working a specific environment. What training methods are best practiced online? Which ones are best suited for the classroom?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2016

What kind of assessment feedback is the most effective for students? What methods of learning do they prefer? If we fail to listen to student voices we are teaching blind. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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