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JUNE 21, 2019

Photo by Airina Volungevi?ien? My opening keynote speech at the 29th annual EDEN conference at VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, Belgium earlier this week was given the title Connected pedagogies - Learning and teaching in the digital age. Unported License. Unported License.

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MAY 12, 2015

I recently wrote a blogpost entitled ' Maker Pedagogy ' where I outlined some of the emerging educational benefits of learning through making. The advent of 3D Printing (also known as additive manufacturing) has brought maker pedagogy opportunities to schools and other educational institutions in a fairly affordable manner.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

It will be a term filled with preparation and paperwork - lesson plans, resources, reports, assessment, attendance records, letters to parents, risk assessments, possibly even an Ofsted visit (school inspection) - and all the other seemingly peripheral work that accompanies the actual teaching of children. Unported License.

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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. Unported License. What shapes teachers' uses of technology?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Photo by Frederick Rubensson on Flickr 'In every talk, I'm asked where I would start first in revolutionizing education (K-professional school): Answer, always. It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

this short series on what I will call 'narrative pedagogy'* I want to explore some of the storytelling techniques that can be adapted for use in education. I have occasionally used the red herring technique in my own teaching. My use signifies how storytelling devices can be applied to everyday pedagogy. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this short series (on what I will call 'narrative pedagogy'*) I'm exploring some of the storytelling techniques that can be adapted for use in education. Photo by Kabir Bakie on Wikimedia Commons *Yes, I know that the term 'narrative pedagogy' has been used before, but in other contexts. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2014

These posts were prompted by a blog written by Daniel Christian on emerging trends of new pedagogy. 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." Assessment and learning are inseparable in any good pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One of the most radical shifts of pedagogy in recent years has been where learners take control of their own learning leading them to create their own content. The old aphorism ''we learn by teaching'' (or in Latin, docendo discimus ) holds true when we consider that to teach something, you first need to learn it.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler I have just published a third module in my series on digital learning for the ZilLearn platform. If you're new to online teaching, or are revisiting it, do consider spending an hour of your time to browse through the ideas in this module. Unported License. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In language teaching, the teacher may speak a phrase at the start of the lesson, move on to develop the lesson theme and then revisit the phrase during the plenary. Unported License. Later, these same elements can be revisited, and principles learnt around them. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In language teaching, the teacher may speak a phrase at the start of the lesson, move on to develop the lesson theme and then revisit the phrase during the plenary. Unported License. Later, these same elements can be revisited, and principles learnt around them. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Photo from Flickr I'm fascinated by story telling, and I often wonder why TV series are so compelling. This makes me think that many of these devices can also be applied to teaching and learning. Unported License. Unported License. This is especially so when I'm binge watching a DVD boxed set.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Photo by Anthony Easton on Flickr In my last post I wrote about inspiration - for those who are teachers, and also for those who are learning - and I guess, that is just about everyone. Unconditionally regarding each child with positivity is key to good pedagogy (Rogers, 1983). Effective pedagogy not only has impact, it's contagious.

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APRIL 16, 2014

This passive, reductionist explanation of learning prompted a number of pedagogical strategies, including reinforcement of behaviour, punishment and reward, and the introduction of teaching machines with their instructional texts, structured assessment of learning and remedial loops. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

In mathematics, I have seen interactive whiteboards used very effectively to teach number bonds and floor robots can be used successfully to teach geometry and algorithms. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. Unported License. But that is the problem.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Photo source: Pexels Social distancing. The pandemic has compelled educators to teach at a distance in many instances, and the scramble to find solutions has been frenetic. I wrote a post called Pandemic Pedagogy about some of the first resources that had been created during the early days of the pandemic. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Clearly, many schools and many educators struggle with this, and end up teaching using technology as an afterthought. Technology is not a substitute for good teaching. Teachers should also think about what problems and issues they see in every day teaching that might be addressed with the addition of a technology.

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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. Unported License. Unported License. education learning perception teaching Technology'

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In my last post I discussed Daniel S Christian''s three trends of an emerging pedagogy. I speculated on whether a new social divide might also emerge as a result of the new pedagogy he outlines. Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies.

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MARCH 21, 2014

After all, teachers are paid to teach, and students are there to learn, right? If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. This is a version of teaching, and we all learn by teaching.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Photo from PxHere In ancient mythology, Cupid is the 'god of love'. Anyway, teaching can be a bit like cupid's bow. Success or failure often depends on the level of passion we invest in our pedagogy and the belief we have in education. Unported License. More accurately, he's the god of desire, attraction and lust.

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MAY 5, 2017

They have to write a 5000 word essay (their final one before they leave the university to take up their first jobs in primary teaching), and they have to try to come up with an answer. EEES613 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JULY 8, 2016

Here are my reflections on the learning and teaching conference held at Staffordshire University. It's not as simple as that, but engaging teaching usually motivates and inspires. The technology should be there to be used as an additional, enhanced aspect of learning, not as a substitute for good pedagogy. Unported License.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

It can be a thorny topic and a bone of contention for any number of reasons, but continues to absorb most of the oxygen in the debate about what constitutes good pedagogy. Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Unported License.

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JULY 2, 2019

Photo by Sylwia Bartyzel on Unsplash Here are some further thoughts on the 'blend' in blended learning: Blends are made of disparate elements. Unported License. Elements are often separated by boundaries, and these must be transgressed if blends are to be effected. Boundaries also mark a transition from one state to another.

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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. There will be more on this in the next post in this series where we explore student summary pages on Integris, and the benefits for teaching and learning. Unported License. This article focuses on the latter.

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JULY 12, 2017

Photo from LSE Library on Flickr Most of the students starting university at the end of summer 2017 were born around the turn of the century. It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. Unported License.

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JUNE 4, 2018

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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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As I watched this section my mind was directed to Jean Piaget's famous quote: 'When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.' Clearly, learning is in the struggle, not the teaching. Unported License. The Greek word Eureka literally translates as: 'I found it!'

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

What are we teaching them now, and will it be adequate to prepare them for this kind of uncertainty? This is assessment for learning (AfL) rather than assessment of learning, and it''s critical for good pedagogy. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Hariadhi Who put the ass in assessment? Unported License. a certainty.

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

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MARCH 2, 2017

Most of mine have trained to be primary educators, and go on to change lives and make lives in their teaching careers. They achieve this through innovative pedagogies, creating great learning spaces and with a liberal dose of technology. Unported License. Prepare to be inspired. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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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. Unported License. This is what schools in the idealistic sense should be modelled upon.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

But new wine must be put into new wineskins; and both are preserved. " (Luke 5:37-38) The above passage relates to Jesus Christ and his teaching to his disciples. Today we are facing this challenge in education, across all the sectors of learning and teaching. Unported License. and there will also be winners and losers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

As the movement grows, and more teachers become technologically savvy, so we will begin to witness the emergence of new pedagogies and powerful approaches to learning and teaching. I wrote about this some time ago, when there were discussions about whether there were any differences between andragogy and pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2017

One of the first things I ever learnt, right at the start of my teaching career, was that enthusiasm and passion often carry the day. Although I don't often teach it directly, I find it infuses much of my teaching. The more we learn about our subject, the more we have to draw on when we are engaged in the act of teaching.

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