Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2012

Learning is performance. Learning to play an instrument ultimately results in some form of musical performance. Learning to play an instrument ultimately results in some form of musical performance. Such performances don't have to be public, but often they are. We talk about 'becoming'. Everyone is a genius.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Although grades matter, more important still is the feedback students receive on their work and performance, and the interventions that teachers can make to support those they see struggling. Unported License. Schools also need relevant information about how well their students are progressing.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2019

From the telegraph, through the telephone and radio and television, to 21st Century satellites, smartphones, the Internet and social media, all were designed to communicate. The entirety of the global social network we all inhabit is predominantly about sharing our minds. Unported License. Unported License. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Lyncconf Games on Flickr The rapid spread of the Coronavirus and the subsequent social lock-downs by many governments has meant that technology has been thrust to the forefront in many of our daily human activities. Our choreography is based on social distancing and the need to continue our routines. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2018

The media seems full of reportage on how social media carries content designed to deceive users. There does seem to b growing evidence that this may have been perpetrated, but in the midst of all the hyperbole and accusations, what role does social media actually play in the deception of the masses? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

Use your entire body to perform your presentation - hand movements and facial expressions can convey a lot of meaning. 11) In relation to 10), your last slide can contain your own contact details such as email address, social media accounts, website URL, and even your phone number if you feel brave enough! Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2014

Today, we explore the work of Albert Bandura on social learning theory. It''s been said that Albert Bandura''s theory of social learning spans the gap between behaviourism and cognitivism. In fact, Social Learning theory is essentially - as the name suggests - an explanation of how we learn when we are in social contexts.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2019

The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption. First there is the social impact: Communication technology may create a psychological distance between people; it can have detrimental effects on our concentration. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2019

Just as social value should be the benchmark of a company's performance, so in our education systems, indicators of success should focus how well we can develop great human beings. 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 29, 2019

It can improve performance, productivity, engagement and knowledge retention. Packed with insights from leading L and D practitioners, this an essential read for all L and D practitioners needing to improve employee and company performance in a digital world. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2019

It is this ‘social glue’ - such mutual understandings and exchanges that occur on a daily basis – that holds together the basic building blocks of social life in which people simply ‘look out for each other’. 1902) Human Nature and the Social Order. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Thursday, October 01, 2009 Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social Learning Be sure to listen to the latest Kineo podcast with Dr. Tony Karrer. Steve Lowenthal interviews Dr. Tony Karrer to get his thoughts on informal and social learning in the enterprise. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2019

The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences. Unported License. To be continued.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Thus we reach the ordinary notion of education: the notion which ignores its social necessity and its identity with all human association that affects conscious life, and which identifies it with imparting information about remote matters." (p Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

The world''s largest and most successful social network, Facebook - celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2014. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Erving Goffman is well known for work on psychiatric asylums, social rituals and stigma.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Not to be confused with constructivism (the theory first proposed in its cognitive form by Jean Piaget, and in its social form by Levrenti Vygotskii). One of the first uses for LOGO was to enable children to program a floor robot, giving it instructions to move around the room and perform simple tasks. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2014

In business and the military it is used to correlate intelligence quotient (IQ) scores against performance. Unported License. Unported License. The theory Intelligence testing has long been practised in the education, military and business communities. Essentially, IQ is a psychological measurement of individual differences.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the most persuasive affordances of social media is that it encourages users to generate their own content. Teachers who recognise this and see the potential of social media to promote active learning are in for an exciting time. Unported License. Teachers know that active forms of learning are better than passive forms.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2012

His counterargument is that through the use of networked technologies, learning can now be distributed outside the learner, within personal learning communities and across social networks. Clearly our social and cultural worlds are influenced by new technology, but are there also biological implications? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

In fact, human civilisation has been founded upon change, and without teamwork, collective action, social movements and group effort, much of that change would not have been achievable. Shirky also underlines the importance of one specific aspect of the internet - social media tools - as ''amplifiers'' of ideas and collective actions.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2014

She gives the example of learning the times table, which she argues will allow children to perform better in mathematical calculation than if they rely solely on technology. Keeping up to date through this medium will become a part of the new social capital we will all value in the future. Unported License. Who is right?

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2012

There has been some debate over whether or not people should combine their personal and business social media identities. By the same token, social media also give us endless opportunities to engage with others, including sports stars, entertainers, politicians and other celebrities. Unported License. Reference Curtis, M.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

A long history of psychological research supports the argument that an individual is more likely to perform a behaviour when there is a high probability of a positive outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 22, 453-474. Journal of Personality and Social Behaviour , 63 (5), 754-765. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 28, 2014

That is why it is so important for all of us to share what we know and share it freely on social media. Psychology also has many unanswered questions, such as how memory and recall works, or what functions certain areas of the human brain perform. Unported License. There are many theories, but no definitive answers.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Thirdly, many online games have very rich social dimensions, which lead gamers to extend their learning further through discussion, collaboration and competition. Learning through games often involves manipulation of identity in such a way that the gamer has real choice over how they wish to represent themselves, particularly in social games.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The theory Robert Rosethal and Leonora Jacobson conducted studies in American schools during the 1960s focused on the effect teachers can have on the learning performances of children. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Unported License. Anderson ACT-R Cognitive Architecture 2.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This can be hosted photo and video sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube, or social networking sites such as Facebook, but are equally likely to be curation and aggregation tools such as Scoop.it 2013) Digital reflection: Using digital technologies to enhance and embed creative processes. Unported License. and Pinterest.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 26, 2015

At the drop of a hat, Shelly flew in from Germany where she was living at the time, and gave a rip-roaring performance that had everyone enthralled. She talked about how social media was making a huge impact on learning, and gave some great examples from her own professional practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

It can also be present in the design of the objects you use to perform the skill. How it can be applied in education As Norman suggests, when information to perform a task is present within the design of an object, the need to learn it is reduced. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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CourseArc

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, many adult or senior students who are new to distance learning perform poorly in their courses, which reduces their motivation and their likelihood of completing future lessons. How to answer questions, play video, or perform any other required tasks. How to bookmark or annotate course content.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Putting your ideas 'out there' as a public performance can be risky, but also very rewarding. It would be another small step, with very little extra effort, to share these resources through some social media tool. Again, in reality, many social media tools are quick and easy to use, and don't cost anything in terms of hard cash.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Social tagging sites such as Diigo and Delicious can offer this kind of filing cabinet organisation, but so too can wikis and other collaborative tools, which would I imagine, raise the level of engagement and profiling of individuals who organised and shared their content in this manner. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 1, 2016

Each of these stars has left behind a legacy of their work, in the form of sound recordings, movies, interviews and videos of their performances. Well, in the social media age, some might. Unported License. There is always a silver lining though. This got me wondering: What about teachers?

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