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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. It was developed into an art form, and obviously survives today in many new and emerging forms. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. It was developed into an art form, and obviously survives today in many new and emerging forms. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MARCH 15, 2019

I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning. million views). Is sharing caring? Unported License.

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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 23, 2017

Sitting down with her after her keynote at the summer EDEN conference in Jonkoping, Sweden, we discussed a number of issues around diversity and inclusion, the use of technology in education, games based learning, peer learning and emerging learner-led pedagogies. Unported License. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

I decided to call the book 'Digital Learning in Organisations' from the outset because my expertise lies in learning technologies. Here's David Kelly , New York based Executive director of the e-Learning Guild, with his view on mobile devices and learning: “Mobile technologies shouldn’t be viewed through the lens of learning.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral. Unported License.

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JULY 15, 2015

I have been working in the field of learning technologies for almost 40 years. In fact my specialism never ceases to amaze me, because there is always something new to learn, some new technology, app or software tool that is emerging, or some new theory or model that is being proposed. All other technologies derive from it.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

This blog comes in at number 4 for 2019, so I'm delighted that the metrics (visitor traffic, design, social media shares, post frequency, interactions, etc) support the many hours of effort I make each month to contribute to the knowledge of my learning community. Agility – Teaching Toolkit (ranked 9th in 2014) 10. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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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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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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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JANUARY 11, 2019

It's a professional community of educators interested in technology supported learning. In that year I was just starting out in the world of educational technology, and I presented some of my research at the EDEN summer conference in Poitiers, France. It's everywhere. I hope to see you there! Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2014

The legacy of this theory is that many teachers continue to trot out the same old line that students are ''natives'' whilst they, being older and less familiar with technology, are ''immigrants.'' His argument is that the use of digital technologies is not about when you were born, but about what tools you decide to use most often.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Wearable computing is just one small step up from mobile technology. Will 2014 be the year when wearable technology emerges as the next stage in our connected future? Hammersley is convinced that it isn''t the technology - the gadget - that is the driving force of this transition. Ben Hammersley seems to think so.

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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? We shape our technology and then it shapes us, suggests Marshall McLuhan. Do these constitute a digital habitus?

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DECEMBER 29, 2012

Here is the introduction, written by Sandra Sanz and Amalia Creus (Open University of Catalonia): Experience of time and technology also has an important impact on learning. Image source Communication and learning in a digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JULY 12, 2017

Students are often dissuaded from using technology unless they are in a designated area such as an ICT suite. 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. The guardians of this knowledge are the academics.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at Learning Technologies 2013 Listening to media futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at the recent Learning Technologies Conference in London was both engaging and thought provoking. A key problem he suggests, emerges from the 'Free Culture' movement described by Lawrence Lessig.

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MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Another thing we need to acknowledge is that a lot of learning is social.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Horizon report describes it as ''the phenomenon of consumers being able to closely track their daily activities through the use of technology. The emergence of wearable devices. The Horizon team predict that a widespread adoption of these technologies - in the context of higher education - is no more than 4-5 years away.

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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. The social web truly is a powerful communication technology.

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JULY 9, 2013

My series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books continues. Today''s book recommendation is the fifth in the series: Howard Rheingold (2002) Smart Mobs: The next social revolution. The book remains a significant contribution to the discourse around learning technology. For previous reviews start here.

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JUNE 16, 2017

Here's a brief reflection: In the 70s my time was spent learning my 'trade', exploring the new world that was opening up in the form of educational technology, and discovering the true power of computers for the first time. While still in school I was inspired by a visit to a technology museum. It all began a long time ago.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

David Kelly addressing Learning Technology delegates I launched a new module for my first year students today called 'Digital Reputation and Digital Literacies'. What chimed with digital reputation and literacies from Kelly's presentation was his various stories about wearable technologies. Unported License.

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MAY 13, 2014

She gives the example of learning the times table, which she argues will allow children to perform better in mathematical calculation than if they rely solely on technology. Is it more important to be taught facts, and to memorise them; or is self directed peer learning, and reliance on technology the best way forward? Who is right?

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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. But any teacher or trainer can exploit the power and potential of these new technologies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In my last post I discussed Daniel S Christian''s three trends of an emerging pedagogy. I speculated on whether a new social divide might also emerge as a result of the new pedagogy he outlines. Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies.

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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. Many will attract vast audiences that equate to the populations of medium sized countries. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The same applies to the clothing we wear, our technology, and just about everything else we possess. Now, with the new technology wave, all that is about to change. autonomy e-reader education flipped classroom Games console intrinsic learning MOOC motivation smart mobile student choice Technology' Unported License.

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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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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Technology is one of the major drivers of change in our society , and it is easy to see where this is being integrated into schools, colleges and universities. In the digital age, where we are surrounded by new and emerging technologies, pedagogical theories and practices are in need of change. Academic roles are changing.

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JUNE 4, 2013

This is the second post in my series of retrospective reviews on seminal books about learning and technology. It is now almost two decades old, and you may ask, how useful or relevant is a book on technology that was written in the last century? Life on Screen is a seminal book.

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JANUARY 5, 2013

This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. Everyone in the world of education it seems, has an interest in how technology is going to influence what we do in the classroom. We even mentioned the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0 ) as a potential horizon technology for learning.

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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. Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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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. So here we go - Learning 3.0.

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