Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Fast forward to more recent history, and we’ve gone from gleaning survival skills from our social group to trying to figure out the most effective means of transmitting skills to individuals new to our organizations and integrating them into our workplace cultures.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I have presented a few workshops now on how to use Twitter as a learning and teaching tool. One of my most viewed blog posts was entitled Teaching with Twitter so there is a lot of interest in the topic - how can we harness the potential of this tool in a teaching and learning context? Unported License. Unported License.

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BrainCert

JULY 26, 2023

It is also important to understand Fair Use, which allows limited use of copyrighted material without needing permission from the owner under specific circumstances such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, research, etcetera. It is crucial to understand the basic principles of copyright and intellectual property law.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 25, 2012

What was meant to be a program on global HR became a program on teaching, learning, and changing behavior. Just because you’re an expert in a topic doesn’t mean you’re ready to teach it. And the following core components are at the heart of good teaching: 1. There is a phrase among education community: “Telling isn’t teaching.”

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2011

John Davitt, in his quirky, off-the-wall session: 'From Silo to Orchestra: The staccato progress of eLearning' encouraged us all to perform our teaching in a different way, using different steps, alternative tempos and creative melodies, so that learners were engaged in many new ways. There should be no fear of trying something new."

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2019

Image from JISC publication This table is very useful summary for anyone who is interested in aligning assessment with teaching methods. 2011) Teaching for quality learning at university. JISC (2017) Effective Assessment in the Digital Age. References Biggs, J., and Tang, C. Unported License.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Providing effective and amazing learning experiences has become easier than ever before, thanks to digital textbook platforms like KITABOO. Creative Commons License: This type of license allows content creators to specify the terms of use for their materials. It also helps your school bring in the latest learning tools.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. These have their uses, but there is much more available in the assessment repertoire of effective teachers. 2011) Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 2014) Constructive alignment in university teaching. References Biggs, J. and Tang, C.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The process of co-learning between teachers and students can only effectively occur if and when teachers realise that learners can offer something new. I cam remember several times recently when I have emerged from a teaching session with more knowledge than I had when I entered the classroom. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo from Pixnio One of the most important lessons I learnt right at the start of my career in education was that teaching was not about 'telling' but about communication. There is also a need for more honesty in teaching. How arrogant that must have seemed. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2020

The pandemic has compelled educators to teach at a distance in many instances, and the scramble to find solutions has been frenetic. But some have been doing this for many years, have a lot of experience in distance education, and can point to standard tools that will enable this to be done effectively. It's not easy. Unported License.

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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. Teaching is like that - it's an ever evolving, always changing terrain in which we discover new things constantly, reflect upon them, practice them ourselves and then share them across our communities. I develop it and apply it to my own professional context. This is profound.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company (by Michael Allen) . Michael Allen’s guide features best practices for creating engaging and effective online educational experiences. Write Better Multiple-Choice Questions to Assess Learning (by Patti Shank). Communities.

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2019

Here are four other things all good musicians know and practice, and how they might be applied to learning, teaching and development: 1) Work as a team. Teachers who work with their students tend to be more effective than those who stand apart. When playing with others in a band, or singing in a choir, is a different matter.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is more effective than cramming the entire arc of a lesson into one nonstop session. Our course creators also have access to a variety of teaching methods and multiple options for presenting new content. Image of hourglass by Alexander Boden via Flickr Creative Commons License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2018

Initially, the most common large screen display, known as the interactive whiteboard (IWB) - was viewed with great promise, but over time, due to misuse, lack of training or knowledge (and in some cases, neglect), interactive whiteboards appear to have been sidelined in some schools. Cinderella technology? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

It's a versatile suite of tools to support the teaching of computational thinking through the use of the programming language Python. The cartoons and graphics provide visual stimuli to show students the effects of their coding efforts. If you're familiar with Purple Mash , you'll notice some similarities. Python's got legs!

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Open Content Potential But There are Challenges This year I spent quite a bit of time looking at where and how open content could get leveraged in different ways. for more on this.

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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

MARCH 9, 2014

In mathematics, I have seen interactive whiteboards used very effectively to teach number bonds and floor robots can be used successfully to teach geometry and algorithms. Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

On now to a few colleagues who provide very useful services around technology in education: First up is educator Richard Byrne, whose site FreeTech4Teachers offers a prolific and regularly updated briefing on just about every new teaching and learning app and device as it becomes available. Unported License.

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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. What it does mean is that teachers should seriously consider new forms of pedagogy where students are placed at the centre of the learning process, and have to spend some time ''teaching''.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Have you ever wondered how information and communication technology (ICT) can be effectively deployed in schools? There will be more on this in the next post in this series where we explore student summary pages on Integris, and the benefits for teaching and learning. This article focuses on the latter. Unported License.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2014

What are we teaching them now, and will it be adequate to prepare them for this kind of uncertainty? Testing in many schools is far too frequently administered in many schools to be effective and many exams still rely heavily on the testing of fact based learning - essentially the testing of crystallised intelligence. a certainty.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. This idea connects with my own recent comments on transliteracy - the ability to communicate ideas equally effectively, no matter what tools or technologies you use. Again, this is something that all educators should be aware of.

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Mindflash

APRIL 10, 2012

Meetings became more effective. And you can’t do that by hiding in an office, teaching off a standard curriculum and not knowing what really happens in the workplace. Teach Leaders It’s Not About Them Anymore. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user star5112. See also : Training Managers?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 23, 2020

Teachers too are less localised, often working and teaching in places that extend beyond traditional classroom boundaries. Recent research carried out by C3 Education and RM Education with a sample of 575 teachers across England revealed that technology effectiveness was uppermost in teacher perception (Connor, 2019).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What they teach is more fragmented than it was [.] The schools cling more and more stubbornly to their mistaken idea that education and teaching are industrial processes, to be designed and planned from above in the minutest detail and then imposed on passive teachers and their even more passive students." Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 2, 2019

Leaving the audience guessing with a classic ' cliff hanger' (Glen Rhee falling from the top of the garbage into a herd of zombie walkers in TWD) can have a powerful effect on bringing them back for more in the next episode (or in Glen's case three episodes later!). Just about every television series employs this regularly. Unported License.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2020

Without effective tools, teachers' efforts will be limited, and often these limitations can arise from a lack of confidence in new technology. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. Students require a lot of support, but this can only come from the dedicated professionals within the school. Gardner, J. (Ed:

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2014

Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. This is autodidacticism - teaching yourself. Choose any subject, whether it be baking a sponge cake, playing blues guitar, or animal husbandry, and you will find dozens of YouTube videos that will teach you.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Many writers have highlighted the power of the global digital tribe , particularly the way groups tend to solve problems more effectively than individual experts (Surowiecki, 2009). Tapscott, D.

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Mindflash

MAY 7, 2012

There is no better feeling than when you teach something in a class, and a couple days later you hear someone else repeating what you said to someone else. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user ms.akr. It feels bad, but if students aren’t showing up, we aren’t making the learning relevant enough for them.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s catching on as a way to begin working more effectively with students and it can be a great goal to have in place as you begin exploring using video. Teach When You’re Absent. Now, face to face time is much more effective because you spend time solving problems, not learning how to use a program. Flip a Lesson.

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