Learning with e's

APRIL 15, 2012

Stephen spoke about the metaphors for creative space that are used to contextualise learning: The Camp Fire: This is a social learning space where students face each other, and in doing so gain an expectation that each should contribute something to the discussion and activities. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 15, 2015

For the many people who have participated to date, it has been an exercise in creative thinking, and an experience of extending social connections within their personal learning networks. The challenge was simple - you shared an image with a friend (or three) and challenged them to write a short, learning related blog about it.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2015

As you might expect, smart mobile technologies, personal learning environments and social learning feature prominently. I also take a gaze into the near future of technology supported learning with some comments on augmented reality , the semantic web and the rise in bring your own device strategies in the workplace.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Providing effective and amazing learning experiences has become easier than ever before, thanks to digital textbook platforms like KITABOO. To boost content engagement, KITABOO blends multimedia, such as images, videos, and audio data. Join the learning revolution with KITABOO, a leading high-scale digital textbook platform.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2015

The challenge is this: Send an image to friends in your personal learning network and ask them to write a learning related blog post about it. They then challenge their friends with an image of their choice. Oh, and if you need an image, there's one here to get you started. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The personal learning environment (PLE) is still a bone of contention. Over at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Ismael Peña-López has been doing some stirling work on theories surrounding Vygotsky's learning model and PLEs. It reflects his personality, learning characteristics and preferences.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

The question still open to me is whether this model would change from it's current form to represent Personal Learning Networks. Or is there any real difference between these and Professional Learning Networks? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2011

Everyone has one - a personal learning environment, that is. We all learn. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personal learning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own communities of interest and practice.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2015

We anticipate that #blimage will grow even wider in its influence, because it has an appeal for everyone who is thinking about education and learning. It has spread across all sectors of professional practice, from primary, secondary and tertiary education, into the workplace learning sector. You never know where it might lead you!

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2015

Amy Burvall has sent me three images, and my task is to create a blog post out of one of them. Some prefer to travel in a taxi, or even by using their own personal transport. This is a metaphor for personalised learning, with the personal learning environment supporting an individual's learning.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 6, 2011

In Deschooling Society , Illich called for personal learning through informal learning networks, and rejected the funnelling approach of mass, unidirectional, instructivist education systems. But ultimately, teachers have a vast array of personal learning resources at their disposal thanks to the social web.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

For me, my working space has always been my learning space (well, ever since I became involved in education anyway). I get paid to teach and research at Plymouth University , but this all comes about through my own personal learning. For me, my working space and my learning space are one and the same. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I would imagine that this is because a personal network is hand chosen, and therefore infinitely more trustworthy and relevant to one's own professional needs and interests. He knows that the Professional (and personal) Learning Network (PLN) as an important resource for learning in a connected world. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 9, 2011

For those who enjoyed such frivolous wordplay, here is a famous speech from one of William Shakespeare's plays, liberally peppered with hyperlinks to just a few of my favourite Twitter pals - some of those who have contributed significantly to my Personal Learning Network over the last year or so. Henry V, Act III. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Content creation is an important feature in many personal learning environment (PLE) models, and together with organising and sharing, makes up the cardinal triumvirate of skills that provides learners with a clear advantage. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

For me, another powerful representation of my personal learning can be found in public speaking. Many of us had great fun last summer exchanging images as we challenged each other to blog about learning using pictorial metaphors. Learning is symbolic, but can also be demonstrated in so many practical ways.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Siemens also criticises the three dominant learning theories, namely behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism, suggesting that they all locate learning inside the learner. Siemens, G. 2004) Connectivism: A LearningTheory for the Digital Age. eLearnspace. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2012

In it, they represented a number of perspectives on personal learning environments, including a discussion on the differential between institutionally managed Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) and the free tools that learners are now using on the web. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Just saying.)

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

It was a wide ranging interview in which we explored the use Twitter as a rich communication backchannel and networking media, discussed personal learning networks and communities of practice, and talked at length about the idea of classrooms without walls, BYOD and open educational resources. do have a listen. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A variety of topics is covered, including txting, personal learning environments, classroom technology, plagiarism and e-safety. What do the students learn from blogging? Image by Adam Gimpert Blogstorm by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

These connections exist not only in links between 'friends', but also in fan page membership, tags, 'likes' and comments, image uploads (at least 250 million photos each day), hyperlinks and a whole host of other digital artefacts created by people simply linking into content and interacting with it. Reference Watts, D. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Here are my topic headings: · A history of learning technology, change management and the adoption of new and emerging technologies in education. Image by Hradcanska Down under by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2012

Social media has simply provided an increasingly powerful range of tools to extend personal learning networks (PLNs) to virtually any part of the world. Image source Thinking in networks by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2015

Recently, in the wake of the #blimage blogging challenge I've been thinking about the power of photos and images. I often quote from his work or retweet his blog posts, because he thinks deeply, writes clearly and has a unique approach to workplace learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

What schools should be doing is assessing for learning - providing students with personalised feedback on their performance referenced against their own previous personal attainment - what we refer to as ipsative assessment. et al (2007) Personalised Learning: Ambiguities in Theory and Practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. Then there are the virtual, online spaces where many of us are increasingly spending our time collaborating, conversing and sharing with our personal learning networks.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Does the author have his own version of Creative Commons?" They actually make a valid point about the Creative Commons licence - I failed to post the final slide which tells viewers exactly which licence I selected - a share alike, non-commercial licence. Image source by Jeff the Trojan Dear elearning101.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2012

Sara Davey, head teacher of Mounts Bay was yesterday interviewed on BBC radio, and reported an initial set of results from their school-wide iPad project as follows: In a recent student survey 90% of Mounts Bay students agreed that iPads were very useful for their learning, especially in Science, English, Religious Education and History.

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Learning with e's

JULY 15, 2015

This blog post was inspired by the above illustration by Amy Burvall What about the blend between social learning and personal learning? You can learn different things when you're in close proximity to others, especially if they are intent on reaching similar goals to you. Blended again. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2013

Today, even with the use of images, audio and video to supplement textual communication, people still have the capability to hide behind anonymity and also to manipulate their identity in many different ways. (p Photo by Steve Wheeler Identity play by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Mindflash

APRIL 27, 2012

Being a trainer, she writes, “will not be about designing personalized training nor managing people’s learning for them, but rather supporting their own personal learning strategies. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user wgreller.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In previous series, we have covered subjects ranging from personal learning environments, open education, the future of distance learning, and mobile learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. We are now in our third series of #EDENchats, which commenced this January. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2012

A useful concept to aid the understanding of current web based learning practices is Bricolage (Levi-Strauss, 1996). Art students will recognise it as the technique of creating an image from a variety of materials that just happen to be available. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. New York: Touchstone.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

These are used by governments as measures of whole school compliance to policies rather than as measures of how individual children are learning. It has never been about learning. The quality of personal learning gain can only be measured through authentic forms of assessment, and the more individualised these are, the better.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 26, 2010

What if children could learn from each other in this way using social networks and massively online role playing games? What if each child could create his own personal learning environment using tools that were free, scalable and open for all to use without any concerns about personal safety? So why aren't we doing it?

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

I will discuss the concept of the personal learning environment and its potential to enrich student experiences. Image source New spaces, new pedagogies by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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