Learning with e's

APRIL 11, 2015

Too much noise, not enough light, too much heat or cold, uncomfortable seats, even poorly configured seating in a classroom can adversely affect learning. Teachers should be the architects of learning spaces (Wheeler, 2015, p 102). 2015) Learning with ''e''s: Educational theory and practice in the digital age.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Correspondence course, radio, television, video, the Web, computers and smart phones - each in turn has been harnessed to reach students for education that are traditionally outside of the traditional learning space. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. What do online educators need?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 14, 2017

And perhaps it's simply the journalist's lack of knowledge about university life, but could we call them 'learning spaces' instead of 'cafe style teaching areas' please? All that said, I still applaud Northampton for making the step toward better learning spaces. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? Weapon of choice by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For me, it is quite simple.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler There is a large, flexible learning space in Ormiston Junior College on the outskirts of Auckland. It's called a modern learning environment or MLE. All around her, noisy, messy chaos erupts as the rest of the Ormiston students busy themselves with their learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2013

Perhaps a little farther down their agendas students are concerned about finding good learning spaces, concerns over the environment, and keeping themselves fit and healthy. I visited the University of Hasselt this week and was shown around some of its learning spaces. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. Image source: Pixabay Going to the wall 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Formal learning, though methods such as the flipped classroom , and Massive Open Online Courses , seems to be migrating slowly but steadily away from traditional learning spaces, at least in some quarters. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2017

To me, my former students - now qualified teachers - are extraordinary, because they have entered the volatile and ever changing teaching profession as visionaries - people who want to make a significant difference in children's lives, inspiring them to learn and reach further. Unported License. Prepare to be inspired.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The notion of learning spaces is gaining traction across all sectors of education. Learning spaces are not only used to describe places we can learn, but can also be representative of the human mind. And it is from our minds that the concept of learning spaces arises. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Photo on Pixabay Join our global #EDENchat by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. We will announce these soon.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

In my presentation I was also critical about the design of some learning spaces in higher education. More to follow Photo by Steve Wheeler Digital capabilities and curiosity 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

APRIL 20, 2016

He showed examples of how his own school, Plymouth School of Creative Arts , harnesses the power of new technologies, and also creates a child centred culture for learning within its studios and learning spaces. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

In my 2015 book I wrote about ' new wine ' (technology) being forced into 'old wineskins' (conservative learning spaces and ideas) and warned of the inevitable failures. 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

APRIL 23, 2013

Today, technology, particularly technology that is personal and portable, can provide similar forms of scaffolding for learning. Increasingly, teachers are adopting roles as support for learning, and as facilitators of learning spaces. Give a child a camera and she will be creative. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

Learning can then occur in any part of the space, not just in the area where students are sat. You can read more on collaborative learning space design approaches in this article. What matters now is that each learner finds their own space, is comfortable within it, and uses it to its optimum. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Alternative modes Today, education has expanded beyond traditional learning spaces into distance education , blended learning, flipped classrooms , mobile learning, and online delivery through technologies such as MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2016

Students bring their personal devices into formal learning spaces, but institutional infrastructure sometimes fails to support the use these new technologies. Student voices, if heard and acted upon, could transform the learning spaces we use in formal education. What methods of learning do they prefer?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 7, 2014

At Albany Senior High School in Auckland, New Zealand, I witnessed a group of students in the same learning space, wandering between three seemingly unrelated classes as 3 teachers ran their lessons. Image by Mike Licht Breaking down the silos by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

I promised six things teachers should consider if they wish to optimise the IWB in their classrooms: Firstly, it's important that IWBs are optimally positioned within learning spaces. Exeter: Learning Matters. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Wheeler (Ed) Transforming Primary ICT.

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Learning with e's

MAY 8, 2012

I have been inside some unique learning spaces recently. The Immersive Vision Theatre on the Plymouth University campus is one example of a unique learning space. Creative surfaces will mean that 'making your mark' will take on an entirely new meaning. Unported License. I see it as a part of my job.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2014

Although physical learning spaces are still with us, more and more education is now being conducted outside of them. Photo from Wikimedia Commons From atoms to bits by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

(re)Designing Learning Spaces for a Digital World View more presentations from Steve Wheeler My keynote speeches to academic staff at Massey University on the Palmerston North and Wellington campuses this week were accompanied by the slides above. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In other words, we enable digital and physical learning spaces in which they can freely explore ideas, argue with each other (and us) over concepts and theories and in so doing, develop their reasoning and thinking skills. It's not the easiest route for learning, but it invariably turns out to be deep learning.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

So what happens when we change the shape of the learning space? Igloo Vision 360 System Another example of circular learning spaces is the Igloo Vision 360 portable round classroom (pictured) which I experienced at the recent Welsh Digital Learning Conference in Cardiff. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2016

There is a place for the latter, but if teachers wish their students to go the extra mile, they need to directly involve them in learning. This means learning spaces where just about anything is possible, where students are kept guessing, and where they are offered the chance to discover for themselves. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

Paragogy is another way of describing peer to peer learning, where students support each other's learning on an equal basis. Both are highly applicable when we consider the advance of learning technologies and the deep pervasion of social media into many learning spaces, formal and informal. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

In this follow-on from one of my previous posts entitled Going to the wall , I'm going to highlight some of the features we plan to incorporate into our new experimental learning space (eXSpace) at Plymouth Institute of Education. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2016

The personal, connected technologies we now have at our disposal are an increasingly important component of informal learning. It will take a little longer to integrate such tools into formal learning spaces, and some believe this will never happen on a grand scale. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

One of the best theories to describe how learning is organised in Web 2.0 In the next blog post, I will attempt to describe what we can expect from Learning 3.0 Photo by Steve Wheeler The architecture of learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2016

The personal, connected technologies we now have at our disposal are an increasingly important component of informal learning. It will take a little longer to integrate such tools into formal learning spaces, and some believe this will never happen on a grand scale. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 19, 2011

As Craig Taylor so eloquently stated this week in his discussion on redesigning learning spaces : "Lose the ICT suite. This only serves to isolate technology from current learning activities as opposed to embedding it within them. It also stands empty for the majority of the time, which is a waste of space and resources.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 25, 2014

How it can be applied in education Many teachers know that learning spaces should be designed to optimise learning. If the classroom is cold or noisy, or the students are uncomfortable, or if they feel unsafe, they will be distracted and will concentrate less on their learning. Lave Situated Learning 25.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2017

However I would like to see a paradigm shift in how schools look with flexible, highly accessible, collaborative learning spaces that integrate different technologies to provide an education that is based on skills, not general knowledge. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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