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MARCH 29, 2020

Social media and smart phones were still a few years away, so we made do with what was available. Multi-media learning was the best approach we had, combining text, audio and video together to create the first 'immersive' learning experiences. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That''s quite an apt result because Google and many of the other large, supposedly ''free'' social media tools are very much focused on making money to sustain their operations. Nor is it about the morality of social media companies. But this post is not about money. Photo by Steve Wheeler PLN or CoP? Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Secondly, learning needs to be social. Increasingly, such contact and communication is mediated through technology, and social media tools are ideal for this purpose. Now many learners are exploiting the power of social media to build and engage with equals in personal learning networks. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

That’s what this thing we call “self-directed learning” looks like anyway; it looks like problem solving and that’s what’s emerging within the world of digital learning.” A little help from my friends by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JULY 30, 2016

In a recently published article, my colleagues Maged Boulos, Dean Giustini and I write about how learning through social media is transforming medical practices, health care and education. Digital forms of scaffolding emerge where learners access new knowledge using personal devices [ 55 ]. Unported License.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral. Unported License.

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JULY 11, 2012

The important concept we wanted to talk about was communities of learning, and how students can use social media tools to participate in them. Peter talked about the power of social media to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and also discussed the ways students manage their online presence. Unported License.

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MARCH 29, 2013

just about everything you encounter online has either been done before, or it's a synthesis (the social media term is 'mashup') of previously available content. The nature of the Social Web is such that tools are available to repurpose, rip, mash, combine and otherwise manipulate just about any content into any other format you wish.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Let me list just a few: Smart phones and other mobile technologies such as e-readers; social media and social networks; touch-screen technologies; Web 2.0; Back to #EDEN by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Post-industrial society saw the emergence of personal computers, the Web and a global communication network of mobile phones. Facebook is currently the largest of the digital totems in the social media universe.

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MARCH 16, 2014

They may not be such regular users of Facebook , so are more likely to be visitors rather than residents within that particular social media environment. Photo by Tawheed Manzoor Taking up residence by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

So what of our habitual use of digital media? What are the effects of our fearsome fascination with mobile phones, our predilection to video games, our inexorable gravitation toward social media? Do these constitute a digital habitus? We shape our technology and then it shapes us, suggests Marshall McLuhan. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 29, 2012

This situation challenges us to think more creatively about the interaction between communication technologies and learning, and to explore how our educational models are being impacted by the processes of social change that come with digitalization, the emergence of social media and the Web 2.0. Unported License.

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MARCH 21, 2015

One major phenomenon of the last decade has undoubtedly been the global and exponential rise of social media. Seeded at the turn of the century, the social web phase of Internet development promoted connections, participation, networked sociality. 2013) The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Will 2014 be the year when wearable technology emerges as the next stage in our connected future? Younger generations are wedded to their smart mobile technologies, both psychologically and socially. Entire industries have evolved and emerged into the mainstream premised on the use and exploitation of smart technology.

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DECEMBER 28, 2014

That is why it is so important for all of us to share what we know and share it freely on social media. We can''t begin thinking about them, because they haven''t yet emerged into existence and therefore we are yet to be aware of them. The amount of new knowledge generated on the Web alone is staggering beyond belief.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We''re also in the age of the learner as their own node of production – it''s exciting to see students working with their teachers to create, organise, repurpose and share content on a global scale through social media and personal devices. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JUNE 24, 2012

My view is that in the social media universe, blogging is potentially the most powerful tool. Blogging encompasses an entire new range of literacies, and as learners get to grips with it, we can expect to see some new and powerful pedagogical practices emerging. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

before social media) and Learning 2.0. Social media are enabling learners everywhere to connect and work together with each other, forming convenient communities and networks of shared interest. has seen as shift toward user generated content, and the emergent property of folksonomies. Where Learning 1.0

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A key problem he suggests, emerges from the 'Free Culture' movement described by Lawrence Lessig. Leonhard believes the major social media platforms have it right. Photograph by Steve Wheeler Slaying giants by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Whether it is sat during a break in a conference schedule; over a few drinks in the evening with a couple of colleagues; in breakout sessions; or simply sat discussing ideas across a social media channel; all of these can be rich veins of new thinking for me. I suspect it's the same for many others. Reference Hyman, P.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on social media and education, and around the same time I set up this blog.

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MAY 20, 2013

Do we need them to describe and frame what is currently happening in an age where everyone is as connected as they wish to be, where social media are the new meeting places, and where mobile telephones are pervading every aspect of our lives. Is it now time for these new theories to replace the old ones? Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The emergence of wearable devices. The use of life-logging technologies is one emerging aspect of the quantified self. What if the data fell into the wrong hands, or more likely - what if people indiscriminately share their intimate, personal data on social media sites, as they already do with images and other personal information?

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JUNE 16, 2017

I began to experiment with satellite and video teleconferencing, which emerged from research I did during my teacher training. The 00s was a time of more rapid change, where we witnessed the emergence of the social web, and mobile phones became smart. tools, using them with my students while establishing my own online presence.

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OCTOBER 26, 2013

I wrote about this new model question recently, and critiqued it in the context of emergent forms of digital learning. Learning often emerges as a result of the writing, rewriting and editing of this content. Bloom''s cognitive taxonomy curation education learning mobile social media Technology' Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Many more, especially those outside the academic world, but who are just as passionate about their studies will post their thoughts onto blogs, as videos on YouTube, and on other social media channels, adding to the discourse. Increasingly, the effect of the global connected mind will emerge as a social phenomenon. "We

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Justin is very influential on social media, and when he tweets something, it is usually shared again multiple times. In conversations with my own student educators recently, something else emerged. There has been a lot of interest in this graphic thanks to Dr Justin Tarte who recently shared it on Twitter. Unported License.

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JULY 9, 2013

I first read it whilst a new academic and still finding my way, and I read it in a time that pre-dated what we now know as social media. Mobile (cellular) phones were just beginning to make their impact on society, and were starting to penetrate sufficiently into the public consciousness to provide the media with occasional stories.

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JULY 12, 2017

It's a cycle that is repeated across three or more years of undergraduate study, and at the end the student hopefully emerges with a degree in their chosen subject. They are self-aware and conscious of their image, due to a lifetime of public exposure on social media. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

People are beginning to notice an increase in the quantity and quality of blog posts and tweets emerging from our group of learners in the School of Education. Even our own Vice Chancellor Professor Wendy Purcell (@WMPUPVC) this morning remarked on how productive our student body has become on social media platforms over the past few months.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The title of Kelly's presentation was ' A look ahead : The now and the next of learning and technology' featured a quick fire examination of the new and emerging technologies we are getting to grips with, or which will soon be in the workplace. His talk is summarised on his blog. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

Clearly this has already emerged as a phenomenon in the last few years, and since the proliferation of social media and smart mobiles , seems to be accelerating. Photo by Frederick Wallace on Flickr A learner''s curriculum by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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MAY 20, 2015

I have written a lot about Personal Learning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. Personal devices and the free and widespread access to social media have amplified the concept of PLEs to the point that they have become ubiquitous, and therefore run of the mill.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Although technology has moved on a pace - since the book was written we now have social media, mobile phones and touch screen tablet computers - many of Sherry Turkle''s ideas still resonate with personal meaning. We live in a world far richer in terms of social networking than Sherry Turkle did in the 1990s. Unported License.

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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. remains a contested label for new and emergent properties that are found on the Web. and Wheeler, S (2007) The emerging Web 2.0

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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. Unported License.

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