Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2011

John Davitt, in his quirky, off-the-wall session: 'From Silo to Orchestra: The staccato progress of eLearning' encouraged us all to perform our teaching in a different way, using different steps, alternative tempos and creative melodies, so that learners were engaged in many new ways. What will we learn from this?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2020

The next two posts will focus on some of the methods used to engage students for other purposes, for example, reflection on practice, problem solving, creating content and performing learning. Next time, I'll discuss asynchronous forms of distance education, but in this post we'll look at synchronous modes. Smaller groups can help.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler The image on this page is a slide from the keynote presented by Graham Brown-Martin at Learning Live, a conference hosted recently in London by the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). It's not just about teaching and learning. Your comments, as ever, are encouraged in the comments box below.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 5, 2019

But teachers are under pressure to ensure that all the children in their classrooms perform. This tends to mean 'teaching to the test', at the detriment to everything else a child could learn at school. They are just as much victims of an oppressive, metric led system as the students they strive to teach. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If they do, then they aren't teaching. They get to know their charges well, finding creative ways to help them to learn optimally, engaging them with methods and activities designed to draw out the best performances. Teachers cannot be compared to machines, and should certainly never function as such. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. 2011) Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 2014) Constructive alignment in university teaching. 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 4, 2018

We all need inspiration, and many would argue that we perform better as educators when we have passion. Teaching is like that - it's an ever evolving, always changing terrain in which we discover new things constantly, reflect upon them, practice them ourselves and then share them across our communities. This is profound. Rogers, C.

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Learning with e's

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. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. Schools also need relevant information about how well their students are progressing.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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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. To be continued. Unported License.

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CourseArc

MARCH 15, 2017

Going further, the Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Excellence provides a great summary of the characteristics of what a “good question” is: Intention: Did the question assess what you intended to assess? Image: “ Quiz ” by Animated Heaven, via Flickr Creative Commons License. Comprehension. Application.

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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. At each stage, students can check the viability of their coding by clicking on a self-checking tool 'Assess Your Performance' icon. If you're familiar with Purple Mash , you'll notice some similarities.

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Learning through observation—watching someone perform a task or describe a task—is a critical element of social learning theory. Much of your content is probably more appropriate for resource learning or can be provided as performance support. Unported license.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2019

Serendipity has happened to me professionally on numerous occasions, usually during teaching sessions. Let's treat them that way, and provide them with the best possible environments and opportunities to develop themselves and improve their performance. But it also happened recently as I was preparing a presentation for a conference.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

What it does mean is that teachers should seriously consider new forms of pedagogy where students are placed at the centre of the learning process, and have to spend some time ''teaching''. We learn by teaching. Ask students to peer-teach. Even better, get them to teach you something you don''t already know about.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Cognitive technologies can be defined as artificial intelligence tools that perform tasks that were once the sole preserve of humans. Rather than 'thinking', the machine follows complex code to artificially replicate some of the traits that humans perform naturally. But have you heard of cognitive technology? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2019

Reflection on practice is vital for all professionals, not only to improve their performance, but also to help them to think critically about their domain of expertise. Reflecting on practice 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, 2020

The Arts Actors and other performers are doing similar work, recording themselves reading classics, bedtime stories for children, acting out scenes and monologues, and just about anything else that can be lent a thespian spin. The stand out offering is the Joe Wicks video which purports to offer PE education to children everywhere.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

Ask students to produce something that can be performed or shown online. This can be done using shared digital spaces such as group blogs, wikis or Google Docs. The negotiation and teamwork required adds a new dimension to the engagement; the smaller the groups/teams, the better. 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. p 103) Such criticism seems still to resonate today, given the emphasis we see placed on didactic, performative and STEM biased curriculum in mainstream state-funded schools. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2018

Our tools are designed to perform tasks. Many schools are already teaching digital citizenship and safeguarding, warning children about the dangers of social media and smartphones and their need to be vigilant about who they contact and communicate with using these tools. And he in turn probably borrowed it from someone else.

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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. 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." Tapscott, D. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2019

In the previous posts in this series (see list below) I explored the digital age and its impact on learning and teaching. Critical thinking and creative self expression can coexist comfortably, provided peers are open minded in the evaluation of content, performances, artefacts and experiences. Wheeler, S. Unported License.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Every company has hidden “experts” who, with some effort, can help support the organization by teaching what they know best — by sharing their expertise with the entire organization. This helps us identify their unique abilities, as well as what they want to learn, and what, if anything, they could help teach. “

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 23, 2020

Teachers too are less localised, often working and teaching in places that extend beyond traditional classroom boundaries. RM's Integris platform clearly performs these roles in combination. However, the same teachers thought that technology to support formative and summative assessment was the most important (84 per cent).

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

Peer reviewing is performed on blogs by those who read and comment, and publishing is instant to a worldwide audience, so peer reviewing can be much more extensive. It has pushed me to think more creatively and this has emerged in my professional practice in the classroom. blogging learning professional practice teaching Technology'

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2017

I have wanted to be a teacher since I began teaching the alphabet to my teddies in my bedroom when I was about 7 years old! When one of my pupils came up to me and said ‘Miss Elworthy, you’re the reason I love coming to school, you teach me interesting things, thank you’. What/who inspired you? What were your motivations?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

Schools can arrange for updates to be automatically installed overnight, or during non-teaching hours. Finally, teachers should see the potential for the IWB to become more than just another teaching tool. Secondly, IWBs run on software that periodically requires upgrading. Wheeler (Ed) Transforming Primary ICT. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2014

After all, teachers are paid to teach, and students are there to learn, right? Encouraging students to go away, and learn something deeply enough to be able to teach it, is something we have been doing in Higher Education for years. This is a version of teaching, and we all learn by teaching. Some might baulk at the idea.

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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. She believes that teaching facts is the best way to establish this kind of skill. The progressive side including Howard Rheingold , disagree. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 15, 2012

SCIL is an Australian secondary school that practices teaching and learning within open spaces, where student autonomy and personalisation of learning are top priorities. Image by Steve Wheeler Creative learning spaces by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. Other jobs in society may already have been supplanted by robotics and artificial intelligence. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 14, 2016

In my previous post Learning from each other I discussed the idea of peer learning, where children are encouraged to teach each other. Those who formally assess keep in mind what is good, acceptable and poor in terms of performance or knowledge reproduction. Here are some further thoughts. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

When it comes to supporting a student''s progress, showing them what they can do to improve, or perform better is the key. In my teaching I have therefore focused on assessment as a means of scaffolding student progress , and I employ a variety of methods to achieve this end. I don''t like end of module assessments much.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

They are forced to teach to the test , which detracts from good pedagogy and also leads to higher stress and anxiety levels, not only for the teachers themselves, but also for many of their students. Everyone is forced to perform at a level that aligns to what those in power expect. so I won't bore you further here. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Many of the best selling video games have been appropriated for classroom learning, including Guitar Hero (used to teach a number of curriculum subjects, not just music), Sim City (Maths), World of Warcraft (Literature) and Grand Theft Auto (remarkably, used to teach citizenship). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Many of the best selling video games have been appropriated for classroom learning, including Guitar Hero (used to teach a number of curriculum subjects, not just music), Sim City (Maths), World of Warcraft (Literature) and Grand Theft Auto (remarkably, used to teach citizenship). Unported License.

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