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What do online educators need?

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Photo by Steinar Engeland on unsplash In yesterday's post I wrote about how teachers are beginning to use online forms of education to enhance and extend the reach of schools. Distance education in all its forms has been used for more than a century in education, leveraging the potential of each new technology as it emerges.

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New pedagogies?

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Most new technologies, particularly handheld devices, lend themselves more to student led learning than they do to teacher led education. We need a new set of pedagogies (and we also need to know how these can be supported with theory) if we are to maximise the impact of technology on education. Unported License.

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A growing divide?

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In his blog on Learning Ecosystems, Daniel S. Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts. Photo from VCU Libraries A growing divide? Unported License.

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Digital capabilities and curiosity

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Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. Again, this is something that all educators should be aware of. Unported License.

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6 interactive whiteboard tips

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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. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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Teacher voices

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Most of mine have trained to be primary educators, and go on to change lives and make lives in their teaching careers. Primary Computing and ICT pathway at Plymouth Institute of Education will feature in this series of posts. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Of course you do. Those who have studied on the B.Ed

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eXSpace exploration

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In this follow-on from one of my previous posts entitled Going to the wall , I'm going to highlight some of the features we plan to incorporate into our new experimental learning space (eXSpace) at Plymouth Institute of Education. This has the potential, if used effectively, to connect students, teachers, and devices together.

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