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Makeshift reality

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Photo by Samuel Seller on unsplash Virtual Reality (VR), some might argue, has yet to live up to the hype. I can give three examples: In the UK, Royal Navy recruits new to the topography of nuclear submarines can experience a virtual reality version on their laptops. Simulation orients us and enables us to navigate future scenarios.

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Digital habitus

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What are the effects of our fearsome fascination with mobile phones, our predilection to video games, our inexorable gravitation toward social media? This is representative of the manner in which we habituate into digital media, believing that we are laying down versions of our thoughts and behaviour from real life. Unported License.

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Intervention learning

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons Predictably, the ideas that dominated at Learning Technologies 2019 (#LT19uk) were mostly on new and emerging technologies. Supporting learning in organisations through these simple yet effective ideas really does help to transform the way people work. Unported License.

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The big switch

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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. This is a version of teaching, and we all learn by teaching. After all, teachers are paid to teach, and students are there to learn, right? We call them seminars.

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Activity learning

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Figure 1: Second generation Activity Theory The theory Vygotsky''s earlier concept of mediation, which encompassed learning alongside others (Zone of Proximal Development) and through interaction with artefacts, was the basis for Engeström''s version of AT (known as Scandinavian Activity Theory). Reference Engeström, Y., Mietinnen, R.

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eXSpace exploration

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The colours of the pens on earlier versions were not as important as the place you located them. Anyone who has used previous versions of interactive whiteboards will know that in many cases, only one person can use the touch surface at a time. A pen placed in the black pen socket printed black no matter what colour it was.

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Where AR we now?

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The opportunities to use such applications in education are fairly obvious, but not everyone has access to the technology, and it can be quite difficult to use effectively if you are able to gain access. What educators do with them next, is really down to each individual's creativity and imagination. Unported License.