Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If there was nothing else, I could still conduct all my lessons using a board and pen. I often catch them taking photos of the board so they can go away and revisit the notes later on. 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

MAY 12, 2017

Without some enthusiasm to study, the lesson is dull and dead. If you do you will never cease to grow.' - Anthony D'Angelo Photo by Nick Youngson Passion for learning 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

JUNE 7, 2017

Our curricula and schemes of work are so crammed full of content there sometimes seems little room for movement, no flexibility or scope for creativity. If however, we design lessons around the teacher with activities that are rigid, with no room for movement, is it any wonder the students want to leave the classroom as quickly as they can?

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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. Honesty and dialogue 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 11, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Anyone who has ever attended the BETT Show will tell you it is vast, chaotic and very commercial. I would have turned up for every lesson. March of the robots 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

OCTOBER 6, 2016

He turned a blind eye when I sometimes appeared at the back of his lessons, although we both knew I should have been elsewhere. Photo from Wikimedia Commons World Teachers Day 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler I've learnt a lot during my two weeks in New Zealand, where I was working with the staff of Auckland University of Technology. In the case of education and the future of learning we should consider what those who have gone before us have achieved, the lessons they learnt and the trajectory they have set us on.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons What's that coming over the hill? Granted, in 'Frankenstein', Hollywood created a ripping gothic yarn that capitalised on the horror factor, and yes, the photo from the film is iconic (probably Karloff's greatest moment), but it's hardly faithful to the original texts. Is it a monster?

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

Flip a Lesson. With lecture out of the way, you are freed up to work on the context and application of lessons with students. With lecture out of the way, you are freed up to work on the context and application of lessons with students. Let’s be honest, writing sub plans takes way more time than writing normal lesson plans.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

No amount of technology can replace a great lesson that has been delivered in a passionate, inspirational and focused manner. Photo by Lupuca on Flickr Integrating technology into learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 It should not be glamourised.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

Sometimes it is as simple as changing the format of a lesson, or altering the layout of a classroom. I often create chaos and uncertainty in my lessons. Photo by Steve Wheeler Curious learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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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. I suppose that's also why I've always been uncomfortable with lesson plans. Lesson plans are a little version of the curriculum. I can't help it.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

Lessons are still being learned. Now, anyone could be their own publisher or producer, create an online learning space or a blog, share videos, photos, music - any content that could be digitised. Photo by CCMSharm2 on Wikimedia Commons What does it mean to be digital today? Rapid growth ensued. One thing is certain.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 2, 2019

Photo from Flickr I'm fascinated by story telling, and I often wonder why TV series are so compelling. How hard would it be to weave a little of these into our everyday lessons to tease our students, seize their attention, and compel them to return time and time again for more? Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 3, 2014

His lessons are delivered with such passion that you cannot help but leave inspired and with a thirst to learn more.'' Photo by Steve Wheeler What makes an inspirational teacher? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 3, 2017

It will be a term filled with preparation and paperwork - lesson plans, resources, reports, assessment, attendance records, letters to parents, risk assessments, possibly even an Ofsted visit (school inspection) - and all the other seemingly peripheral work that accompanies the actual teaching of children. Korthagen, F. and Swennen, A.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. This post is sponsored by RM Education MIS en place 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

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Teachers have been trained to believe that there should always be predictable outcomes from a lesson. Sometimes lessons go in a direction that has not been planned, and predictions (aims, outcomes, objectives) are circumvented - teachers should be aware that sometimes, you can''t plan for learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Photo by Charles Deluvio on unsplash It wasn't so much the dogs. Every time the bell rings, children pack up their things, and move to the next lesson. Chekhov's smoking gun Pavlov's drooling dog 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

JANUARY 20, 2014

They also emphasise the importance of interaction during lessons, with each other, with their tutors and also with additional content. Photo by Pedro Ribiero Simoes on Wikimedia Commons Student voices by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 27, 2017

For me, one of the most difficult lessons to learn as a new teacher was to know when to stand back and let students struggle , discover for themselves and learn independently - and when to intervene. Teaching is not only telling and showing, but allowing space for creativity, discovery and experimentation. It is a fine balance.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

They create lesson plans, produce resources, devise marking schemes and search around for activities and games they can repurpose to use in teaching sessions. Many are prolific and proficient in producing blogs, podcasts, videos and photos for sharing on the web. They can do it all using the simple smartphone in their pocket.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2013

Without strategic input from teachers at critical junctures during a lesson, and without some clear goal or set of objectives, students can lose focus, become distracted and go off task. Photo by JISC Infonet Active learning spaces by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 24, 2017

Other common errors are inconsistency, repetition, changing verb tenses, bad referencing, or simply failing to answer the question. Even exceeding the word count and running out of space can be addressed with some small lessons on how to reduce words whilst maintaining the meaning of a sentence. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2017

It allows me to be creative and innovative on a daily basis. Knowing how to pitch a lesson and thinking of exciting ways to teach it. Photo courtesy of Neil Jarrett Teacher voice 1: Neil Jarrett 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

MARCH 7, 2016

Photo from Pexels It seems like a cliché, but it's true. Concepts such as curriculum, classes, assessment, lessons and 'teaching' are artificial - contrivances that do not occur naturally. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, whatever you do, whatever the time of the day, you will encounter learning opportunities. I never knew that!

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. They showed me how they planned to merge their own photos with the pictures they had made of animals, to create a new type of synthetic art. 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. They have been around for a long time, but IWBs seem to have polarised teachers.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2014

This means varying the pace, focus, method and content of lessons so that a menu of different experiences are available. How it can be applied in education Gardner''s theory is a student centred theory in as much as it recognises the many individual differences and acknowledges that there are many ways to learn. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 6, 2015

This might mean changing your method, introducing a different activity or resources, or actually scrapping your lesson plan and doing something completely different. When you are in the thick of it, it is often important to consider what is happening and perhaps change tack, if what you are doing isn't working as well as you expected.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Photo by Marcin Wichary on Flickr Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Two of the girls (twins) came up to her after the lesson and told her they couldn't do the task, because their parents banned TV in their house. If you believe in Sod's law, you end up either very philosophical about life, or very paranoid. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2014

When students behave badly during lessons, everyone is affected. Behavioural management can take up more time in some lessons than teaching. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity Photo from Wikimedia Commons Behave yourself by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2016

The lessons went on for three weeks, covering all sorts of theory and content delivery, before finally, in the fourth week, the children got to make their bread. He really enjoyed the lesson, and came home with four perfectly good loaves of bread he had made himself. The gift was to attend a two hour bread making evening class.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2014

Time should be allocated in lessons so they can process problems before they arrive at their own solutions, instead of just being given the answers. Koffka Gestalt theory Photo by Alan Cleaver Lightbulb moments 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 30, 2015

Teachers can introduce elements of a lesson that are intriguing, but at first have no meaning. The approach helps students to connect together the elements of the lesson or lecture and to see a more holistic view. By the same token, teachers should only include in a lesson those elements that are absolutely necessary.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Teachers can introduce elements of a lesson that are intriguing, but at first have no meaning. The approach helps students to connect together the elements of the lesson or lecture and to see a more holistic view. By the same token, teachers should only include in a lesson those elements that are absolutely necessary.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

From the simple playing in sand of reception children, right through to designing robots and helicopters in the final year of primary school, such activities can cover all curriculum subjects, and enliven lessons through problem based and project centred learning. Reference Papert, S. 1980) Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas.

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