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AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. Class Teaching - Durrington High School staff 10. Agility – Teaching Toolkit (ranked 9th in 2014) 10. Learning with 'e's - Steve Wheeler 5. Unported License.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Photo source: Pexels Social distancing. 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. Stay at home. And what about resilience? It's not easy.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Sat in a fish restaurant tonight, I noticed this tank full of lobsters beside my table. If you look closely at the photo, their claws are taped together so they can't do any physical harm to each other. I couldnt miss it really. They never stopped. But the contest was futile. What is achieved? Unported License.

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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. Which do you favour?

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MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education? It's a common psychological phenomenon to feel that although you are separated by distance, the technology actually mediates your connection with someone else. References Gibson, J. Wheeler, S.

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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. education learning perception teaching Technology'

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). Children need a great deal of support throughout their learning journey. Students require a lot of support, but this can only come from the dedicated professionals within the school. References Blatchford, P.

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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. In my next post I will present the questions, and elaborate on them to support an online discussion. Please post them in the comments box below. Unported License.

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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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AUGUST 5, 2019

Photo by Ramakant Sharda on unsplash Teachers do their best. 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. I know they do.

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JUNE 14, 2020

Photo from Pixabay This series is about how teachers can improve engagement for online learners (see links below for previous posts in the series). All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Unported License.

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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." Photo by Steve Wheeler A growing divide? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. 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.

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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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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. He was always calm and spoke softly to everyone. Unported License.

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MAY 31, 2018

Photo by Sean MacEntee on Flickr Old Trafford. 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.

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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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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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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. We need to engage our learners.

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MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. 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. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies. This is manifest as a changing professorial role, towards more support and negotiation over content and methods, and a focus on developing and supporting learner autonomy. He identifies. ".an Unported License.

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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. Well, now many have no access to their classrooms, and their students are at home. Unported License.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Pedagogy in the best sense of the word is where knowledgeable others such as teachers and experts provide the guidance and support for good learning to be optimised. Teaching to the test must be replaced by learning as a quest. This is what schools in the idealistic sense should be modelled upon. Unported License.

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MAY 9, 2017

Perhaps the most serious problem of Sats is that teachers (who know their own reputation is at stake) will tend to teach to the test, so that as many pupils as possible pass the examinations. We need to support teaching, not distort it. Unported License. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." We will fail if we attempt to use new tools while we teach in the same the old ways. Photo by Alan Levine on Flickr New pedagogies?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. Universities must offer better and more sustainable support to academics. The Digital Classroom: Harnessing the Power of Technology for Learning and Teaching.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Photo by Woodleywonderworks on Flickr 5 of the best by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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MAY 17, 2014

In his busy schedule, Winkler finds time to work to support children with dyslexia. Photo by BBC Television The world''s greatest underachiever? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 assessment dyslexia education learning reading school teaching writing'

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision.

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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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MARCH 20, 2017

Finding out what former students are doing now they are qualified, is one of the joys of teaching. We must try to engage parents more and make more opportunities for them to develop skills to support their child's education and personal development. 7) What is your favourite story or memory of teaching children you would like to share?

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Contact me if you're interested in hosting and have a technology supported education theme you would like to propose for #EDENchat. 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

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APRIL 1, 2014

Believe me, it is well worth the effort and time to sit down occasionally and write something that relates directly to your teaching (and of course your personal learning). Thank you for all your wonderful, supportive comments. Photo by James Clay Seriously. blogging learning professional practice teaching Technology'

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JANUARY 10, 2016

These findings are supported by another, larger meta-study of 41 qualitative reports from the same period, which showed that tablets and mobile devices are most effective when used in student-active contexts (Tamim et al, 2015b). 2015a) Tablets for Teaching and Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. and El Saadi, L.

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JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. She took particular interest in supporting my son who is on the Autistic Spectrum.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I spend a lot of my time thinking through issues and challenges around technology supported learning. Yesterday I saw a tweet from Helen Chapman , Associate Dean at Staffordshire University who had attended a keynote speech I gave for their Learning and Teaching conference earlier this year. Unported License.

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