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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

The idea that we are all members of various digital tribes, and that we gather around digital totems such as YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay, shows that connected extends beyond learning, to entertainment, commerce and culture. It also affords us a connected mentality, where we expect to be members of communities that are distributed.

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Cinderella technology?

Learning with e's

In the popular folk tale, Cinderella is described on Wikipedia as: ". The latter seem not to have made connections between the affordances of the IWB and authentic, situated pedagogy. In short, one of the significant issues around the use of IWBs has been a lack of transfer of the tool into effective pedagogy.

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Role of ICT Team in Education Institute

Academia

Reading Time: 3 minutes As technology continues to create wonders in various industries, it becomes essential to discuss its impact and effectiveness. For more information, you can refer to the following Wikipedia page. . From PowerPoints to gamified learning, pedagogy has changed drastically over the last 10 years. .

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Instructional design: from “packaging” to “scaffolding”

Jane Hart

Wikipedia has a page about instructional scaffolding, too – yes, the term already exists – which includes this paragraph. “Effective learning environments use instructional scaffolding to aid the student in his/her construction of new knowledge. .”

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. Someone once remarked that the lecture is the most effective way to transfer a lecturer''s notes into a student''s notes without having to pass through two minds first.

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4 types of navigation flows for micro-learning courses

QuoDeck

To make these online courses more effective, these can be structured using one of four types of navigation systems – Course, Reference, Social and Game. The main disadvantage of this form of navigation is that it is designed for an academic pedagogy and doesn’t relate well to modern adult learning principles. Course Navigation.

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

Content is still very much king in schools, because 'content as curriculum' is easy and cost effective to deliver, and that is what most governments require and impose. Contemporary pedagogy is only effective if there is a clear understanding of the power and efficacy of the tools that are available.

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