TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Back in my teaching days, we had a ninth hour elective class where students could take classes like computer repair, plumbing, ceramics, or guitar. In essence, as teachers, we got to teach classes based on our own hobbies. Using the embed and sharing function of CodePen, I can use student demos to teach particular concepts.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2012

Although I am employed to teach, I consider it something of a disappointment if I don't learn something myself during my teaching sessions. Some might complain that 'only the expert has a right to teach', or that 'students should not be allowed to go off and find out for themselves', but sadly, this is really missing the point.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 23, 2020

Educators need to understand this when they teach online. What's more, they are placed into the context of online learning, digital pedagogy, social and psychological theory and teaching in the technology enabled world of the virtual classroom. Unported License. You'd be mad to miss out. You're welcome.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Eventually I try some of these ideas out with my students. Often I share those ideas and outcomes on this blog. It's gratifying when people listen to these ideas, try them out and then come back to tell me how well they have worked. I know that many teachers reblogged the ideas, in many languages around the world.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Passing colleagues were a little surprised to see me teaching in the art room, completely out of context. Normally I'm found teaching a session on educational theory or psychology, or information and communication technologies. Teaching an art lesson is therefore a little outside my comfort zone. Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The idea of computational thinking has radically changed my approach to teaching over the past few years. This term, first coined by Jeannette Wing , a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, refers to several key ideas of thinking that are essential to computer science. This is the human side of teaching.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2020

Increasingly, these technologies are being used because they seem to have all of the vital elements - video and audio communication, slide sharing and text messaging - that can make distance teaching successful. Below are seven ideas I have tried and found useful, both in traditional and online lessons: 1. Unported License.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Based on the idea of open access, OER is the free, immediate, online use of available research articles with re-use rights. And you can find out so much more by watching our “Finding and Using Openly Licensed Content” discussion). But inequities still exist. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

She has done the hard miles as an educator and has innovated along the way, continuing to share her knowledge and her ideas freely among the global education community. In 183 pages it focuses on teaching strategies that have a proven track record of success. Unported License. This book is not about technology.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 14, 2017

The news created a small stir on social media, with several educators opining about what they thought of lecture theatres, their place in universities, technology, and teaching and learning in general. Only trouble is, the illustration holds on to the concept of teaching from the front. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2017

One of the first things I ever learnt, right at the start of my teaching career, was that enthusiasm and passion often carry the day. Although I don't often teach it directly, I find it infuses much of my teaching. The more we learn about our subject, the more we have to draw on when we are engaged in the act of teaching.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2018

The first, from the Times Higher Education Supplement was entitled 'Academics fail to change teaching due to fear of looking stupid'. Other methods, including interactive, collaborative and student centred approaches to teaching were shunned, because to adopt them would expose the younger academics to potential ridicule or loss of face.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Today, as many of us attempt to teach online, it's often that case that a lot of our energy is expended on keeping students focused and engaged - and at a distance. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. Unported License. Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies.

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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. Unported License. Cinderella technology?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

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. At first I found it difficult to acknowledge that my students could teach me a thing or two. Making ourselves open to new ideas and new knowledge doesn't weaken our position as teachers.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

Encourage the group to regularly share their ideas, discuss their hopes and concerns, promote their content and celebrate their successes. Promote creative writing using blog challenges such as #Blimage or #TwistedPair as visual prompts (the latter involves unlikely pairings of people to provoke imagination. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Danne Levy , an English teacher in Tamworth, England, said that teaching to the test needs to stop. On the topic of assessment, Matt Bury , teaching in Guelph, Canada, said that norm referenced grading had to go. Unported License. Almost all focused on teacher methods and student activities. and interactive whiteboards.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The old aphorism ''we learn by teaching'' (or in Latin, docendo discimus ) holds true when we consider that to teach something, you first need to learn it. If you are teaching your peers, and your teacher is also in your audience, you really need to know your subject, or you end up looking a little foolish. 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 was a constant exchange of thoughts and ideas around the content, rather than a one way stream of information. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2017

A recent tweet by Jason Elsom made me sit up and take notice: 'We need to stop designing schools for teaching and start designing schools for learning.' We can either place an emphasis on teaching or we can privilege learning as the most important facet of education. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Learning by design?

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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. It's a gradual process that takes the learner on a journey from simple to complex skills, enabling them to generate their own ideas and express their creativity as they proceed. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Clearly, many schools and many educators struggle with this, and end up teaching using technology as an afterthought. Technology is not a substitute for good teaching. Teachers should also think about what problems and issues they see in every day teaching that might be addressed with the addition of a technology.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2019

Recently it was my pleasure, during a week of teaching at Technical University Liberec, to take some time out to record a series of interviews with David that will be broadcast in the coming weeks. David was particularly interested in the idea of 'unschooling', or in Ivan Illich's terms, 'deschooling' of society. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

I have often quoted from this site because it offers practical and useful resources and ideas around the use of technology in education, as well as professional development tips for teachers and a regular podcast. Unported License. The second useful resource is TeachThought which is run by Terry Heick.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 4, 2018

Colleagues who have been in my sessions have then incorporated my ideas into their own practice. 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. Unported License. Rogers, C.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2011

Was it perhaps that Day 1 was a free day, to which anyone could come, to pitch in, watch the robot show, take part in the open workshops, and generally share their ideas in a very friendly and open environment? Unported License. We will reprise this next year, that's for sure. What will we learn from this? We don't know until we try.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

His seminal work Mind in Society (1978) has been widely cited although not widely read, but it is important to draw Vygotsky's ideas from their origin. Although they are there to teach, within this role is the need to reach out to the child, placing importance on relationship formation. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It is premised on the idea of students reaching a destination - being 'filled' with facts. Simply, teaching is driven by assessment. Learning is a journey by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2014

This passive, reductionist explanation of learning prompted a number of pedagogical strategies, including reinforcement of behaviour, punishment and reward, and the introduction of teaching machines with their instructional texts, structured assessment of learning and remedial loops. Our ideas in isolation have limited power and reach.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 23, 2009

Ever since I first began to use Twitter I have been thinking about how to harness the potential of microblogging for the benefits of my own students, and have tried out several ideas to exploit it already. Cartoon source Learning with 'e's by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0

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CourseArc

MAY 10, 2017

For example, when designing a course to teach employees how to operate a certain piece of equipment safely, it’s often tempting to outline course objectives in a manner like… The objectives of this course are to: help factory staff learn key operating procedures. Army via Flickr Creative Commons License.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Our course creators also have access to a variety of teaching methods and multiple options for presenting new content. This helps users build courses that can grow in complexity while providing helpful callbacks to big ideas and key concepts that were learned in earlier lessons.

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Learning with e's

MAY 5, 2017

They have to write a 5000 word essay (their final one before they leave the university to take up their first jobs in primary teaching), and they have to try to come up with an answer. I think all of us would find it difficult to articulate our ideas, visions and values in 5000 words. Unported License. It's a tough assignment.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 26, 2019

The idea was simple, and a counterpoint to the sometimes congratulatory culture seen in most conferences. Teaching and learning is not always a bed of roses. Teaching and learning is not always a bed of roses. My idea for the confessional booth was to introduce some reality and honesty to the conference. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2019

The theme of the conference is 'connecting through educational technology' - this echoes the themes of a number of other recent conferences, many of which explore the idea of connected learning. The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. To be continued.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

But during the conferences, I have heard some interesting ideas which I would like to share a little wider. Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. It's not as simple as that, but engaging teaching usually motivates and inspires. Unported License. Unported License.

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