Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Photo by Steve Wheeler When Shelly Terrell speaks or writes, people take notice. 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. This book is not about technology. Unported License.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler No, this is not some new discovery about the evolutionary development of snakes - nor is it a reptile dysfunction. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. Python's got legs! 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

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. 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. Unported License.

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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. How arrogant that must have seemed.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2019

David and me in the studio - Photo by Steve Wheeler David Hamr is a well known Czech broadcaster and radio journalist. 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. 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

JUNE 14, 2020

Photo from Pixabay This series is about how teachers can improve engagement for online learners (see links below for previous posts in the series). Encourage the group to regularly share their ideas, discuss their hopes and concerns, promote their content and celebrate their successes. Make interaction with content interesting.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2018

Photo by Anthony Easton on Flickr In my last post I wrote about inspiration - for those who are teachers, and also for those who are learning - and I guess, that is just about everyone. Colleagues who have been in my sessions have then incorporated my ideas into their own practice. This is profound. There is incongruity in our schools.

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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

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. It's a tough assignment. and constant fatigue.

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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

MAY 30, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler This is the first of a short series of posts, presenting my thoughts leading up to a keynote speech I will give at EDEN 2019, in Bruges. 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. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 26, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons During the life of the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCon), we tried to be innovative, introducing new features each of the ten years the event ran. The idea was simple, and a counterpoint to the sometimes congratulatory culture seen in most conferences. Reference Gerver, R.

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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.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2017

He is also very insightful about what some might consider the more mundane aspects of teaching. Keith has commented on several recent lectures, school visits, and on numerous ideas and teaching experiences from his own work. Some just teach to the test, because they are under such pressure to 'get children through' the content.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Photo from Pxhere I can't speak for anyone else, but my own personal learning is most enriched when I'm in conversations with others. School 21 achieves this by teaching across the three domains of head, heart and hand. There isn't enough time for students to discuss their ideas, explore complexity and create things.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Photo by Sarah Joy on Flickr Hidden away in the heart of the ancient Barbican area of Plymouth, England are the authentic Mayflower Steps. Those who visit and take photos to capture the moment are largely unaware that the steps are fake. You probably know the story. You see, the truth is often much more mundane than the myth.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2013

Sugata Mitra recently won a $1 million TED prize to develop his ideas around his ''School in the Cloud'' and building on his notion of minimally invasive education. Photo by Steve Wheeler Sugata Mitra - Charlatan or genius? Photo by Steve Wheeler Sugata Mitra - Charlatan or genius? Is he a charlatan, or a genius?

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. Teach When You’re Absent. If some of these ideas are appealing to you, the good news is that it’s easy to start! So, why not record a video?

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. 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. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 28, 2016

Recently I said goodbye to another year group of my primary education students who will be teaching in their own classrooms come September. They were a particularly talented and insightful group of young people, and I learnt a great deal through teaching them for three years as they developed their teaching skills.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

School is not about teaching subjects, it is about teaching children - and education is not simply about preparing them for a world of work, it is a preparation for life. We should also be teaching them to discover for themselves what we don''t yet know. Teaching methods must also change. How do we achieve this?

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2019

Photo by Patrick Brinksma on unsplash One of the most impressive TED talks I ever viewed was presented by Neuroscientist Beau Lotto and a 12 year-old student called Amy O'Toole. Other schools are now adopting these ideas, and several have set up apiaries for keeping bees. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2017

Another emerging theme is the idea of innovation - and the question of how teachers can break out of the rut they sometimes mire themselves within. Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I often catch them taking photos of the board so they can go away and revisit the notes later on. Another method is to get students to use the board to present their ideas. Weapon of choice 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

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Every once in a while I get to interview someone who offers amazing ideas and inspirational thoughts on the future of education. Following her keynote at the EDEN annual Conference in Budapest, she sat down with me to discuss some of her ideas about open content, distance learning and open licensing. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

Photo by David Goehring on Flickr In my last post, entitled Cinderella Technology , I wrote about the tremendous potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and highlighted some of the reasons why it often fails to be realised in school classrooms. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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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. Photo by Alan Levine on Flickr New pedagogies?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I like to go off road and explore, and I often find myself down some backstreet in a city I've never visited before, chatting to locals or taking photos of strange new sights. Nor have I been happy simply 'towing the line' where important things like teaching and learning are concerned. I can't help it. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 28, 2019

Photo from RosanBosch website I like the idea of schools without classrooms. Watching the 2018 documentary Bauhaus Spirit on Sky Arts this week brought this idea back to life. Space for exploration by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 5, 2011

So how do you teach people to make more and better decisions? Don’t give your own, “better” idea. Don’t say “Yeah, but … ” to every idea. Don’t offer ideas, offer questions — Help people work through the answer by offering to help them come up with some ideas … by asking questions.

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Learning with e's

MAY 17, 2014

As he says - ''I have a lot of ideas, it''s just difficult getting them down onto the page.'' Photo by BBC Television The world''s greatest underachiever? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 assessment dyslexia education learning reading school teaching writing'

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. As this blog approaches 8.5 Lessig, 2005, p. I couldn't let that one lie.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

the rewards are that your ideas are quickly ''out there'' in public, and can be discussed, built upon, challenged and otherwise explored by your professional peers, your community of practice. It has pushed me to think more creatively and this has emerged in my professional practice in the classroom. Photo by James Clay Seriously.

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