Learning with e's

APRIL 23, 2020

Educators need to understand this when they teach online. What's more, they are placed into the context of online learning, digital pedagogy, social and psychological theory and teaching in the technology enabled world of the virtual classroom. Unported License. You'd be mad to miss out. You're welcome.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2019

Image from JISC publication This table is very useful summary for anyone who is interested in aligning assessment with teaching methods. In principle, each of the four pedagogical perspective seem discrete, but in practice, the best teachers tend to borrow from all of these approaches at different times to support students in multiple ways.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

It's not just about teaching and learning. The successful integration of technology will depend on the critical balance of activities and engagement with knowledge, and will continue to be influenced by the role teachers believe technology can play in supporting learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2020

Increasingly, these technologies are being used because they seem to have all of the vital elements - video and audio communication, slide sharing and text messaging - that can make distance teaching successful. Unported License. Smaller groups can help. They don't feel 'hidden in the crowd'.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Caitlin co-hosted an informative webinar, “Finding and Using Openly Licensed Content” where she discussed the importance of open access and open education and how to find and use openly licensed content for accessible teaching and learning. . Oftentimes, once we learn the how , the doing becomes easier.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. This is a simple principle of pedagogy known as constructive alignment (Biggs and Tang, 2011) where we start with outcomes that students need to achieve, support these with appropriate pedagogy, and then assess accordingly (Biggs, 2014). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

It's a versatile suite of tools to support the teaching of computational thinking through the use of the programming language Python. by Steve Wheeler was written in London, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Python's got legs!

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

This blog comes in at number 4 for 2019, so I'm delighted that the metrics (visitor traffic, design, social media shares, post frequency, interactions, etc) support the many hours of effort I make each month to contribute to the knowledge of my learning community. Class Teaching - Durrington High School staff 10. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2020

Schools all over the world have remained open (even though they are officially 'closed'), to provide care and support for the children of essential workers, and also to continue to offer students everywhere remote learning opportunities. Unported License. It's not easy. Technology will not replace you. You will always be needed.

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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.' Do they lecture, or do they support? We can either place an emphasis on teaching or we can privilege learning as the most important facet of education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

This is where the technology may have failed to support the interaction. Feelings of intimacy, or warmth, or common understanding through technology all fall under the category of social presence. Unported License. References Gibson, J. 1966) The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Wheeler, S. ALT-J , 15(2), 103-117.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2020

Children need a great deal of support throughout their learning journey. 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. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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Learning with e's

JULY 15, 2014

I was interviewed by Shelly Terrell about my work, my teaching philosophy, and yes. Once the spotlight is off the technology, and on to pedagogy, we will realise that learning can be supported in any number of ways. This is not capitulation, it''s common sense. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 5, 2019

Those who are at the peak of their abilities tend to go the extra mile to care for and support the children and young people in their charge. This tends to mean 'teaching to the test', at the detriment to everything else a child could learn at school. We need leadership instead of management for the teaching profession.

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Learning with e's

MAY 3, 2014

I had the honour to be presented with an award for ''most innovative use of teaching methods'' at the recent Plymouth University student union SSTAR Awards. The evening was a joyous celebration of teaching excellence, and most importantly, all the award nominees and winners were chosen by the university students. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

There is also a definitive role for teachers, who should support, scaffold and facilitate these learning efforts. Simply, teaching is driven by assessment. Learning is a journey by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it. See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

On now to a few colleagues who provide very useful services around technology in education: First up is educator Richard Byrne, whose site FreeTech4Teachers offers a prolific and regularly updated briefing on just about every new teaching and learning app and device as it becomes available. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

He says: "An increased use of technology not only to deliver teaching, but also to support and assist students and to provide new forms of student assessment." by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This is an important point.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Jackie Mulock, Business Manager at Marner Primary School , London said: "The move from our own system to RM Integris was seamless and happened virtually overnight, thanks to the support of RM Education and our local authority. Unported License. This article focuses on the latter. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It wouldn't take a lot to shelve the aggression and the 'I'm right, and they're wrong so I can be rude to a complete stranger' attitude, and we'd all be a lot happier as we strive toward the same excellence in teaching, and the supporting our students. Unported License. So stop the aggression, and see this for what it is.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2019

Ever approachable and friendly, Gunther signed a copy and presented it to me after our conversations about digital literacy and the use of media and technology to support learning. Literacy in the New Media Age by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Much of your content is probably more appropriate for resource learning or can be provided as performance support. Rather than teaching exactly what each policy says, teach where they can be accessed at the time of need.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2018

For those who object to my use of the term '21st Century', consider that many schools still teach from a 20th Century curriculum, and need to be reminded that each and every child in school today was born in this century, while every existing teacher was born and educated in the last century. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2014

Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. This is autodidacticism - teaching yourself. Choose any subject, whether it be baking a sponge cake, playing blues guitar, or animal husbandry, and you will find dozens of YouTube videos that will teach you.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 6, 2016

He encouraged me, and spent a significant amount of his time supporting me as I came to terms with learning. I will not forget the tremendous efforts he put into making his teaching accessible to all, and the empathy he showed to every one of his students. Unported License. He was always calm and spoke softly to everyone.

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Learning with e's

MAY 22, 2014

Bruner believed that when children start to learn new concepts, they need help from teachers and other adults in the form of active support. To begin with, they are dependent on their adult support, but as they become more independent in their thinking and acquire new skills and knowledge, the support can be gradually faded.

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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

JUNE 26, 2017

It presently has over 1200 individual members worldwide, many of whom are active in distance education and technology supported learning. NAP committee members host the live discussions, supported increasingly by NAP members and guest presenters, and the conversations are often lively and constructive. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the first things I learnt from reading Dewey, is that we don't teach subjects, we teach people. Previous posts in the #3quotes series Paulo Freire Ivan Illich #3quotes from Illich 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 1, 2019

Based on cognitive technology, it is a way of creating learning environments and support systems that mimic human tutors or teaching assistants. An example of this is the Hewlett Packard online customer support service. Other companies have similar two-tier systems of customer support. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

Sometimes technology can be used to support this process of maintaining curiosity. Embedding the problem into a larger project where they need to rely on each other (collaborative), and their resources (content) and their own intuition and personal qualities (creativity) to achieve their goals. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

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. Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. Unported License. Tapscott, D.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Suddenly, out of nowhere, we are being bombarded by emails from self-appointed experts in working from home and distance learning, all offering us their unwanted and unsolicited advice and support. Unported License. Well, now many have no access to their classrooms, and their students are at home. It's a funny old world isn't it?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

The work of Harvard University professor Eric Mazur supports this approach, because, as he says - instruction is easier than assimilation, and advocated coaching rather than lecturing as early as the 1990s. We learn by teaching. Ask students to peer-teach. Unported License. This is not new of course.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If those methods can also encourage creative thinking, they are even more welcome in the classroom. Technology can provide some of those creative solutions. Students will need to know how to compose and capture good images, and also will need to be aware of the gaps in the image repository on Wikimedia Commons. Unported License.

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