Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2012

Although I am employed to teach, I consider it something of a disappointment if I don't learn something myself during my teaching sessions. Some might complain that 'only the expert has a right to teach', or that 'students should not be allowed to go off and find out for themselves', but sadly, this is really missing the point.

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Learning with e's

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. In Gestalt theory , all humans are assumed to have an innate psychological need to complete the incomplete, to close the circle. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2018

It seems strange that the education community is willing to adopt new technologies and develop new theories and methods of education, but it can't arrive at a way to get rid of grading. Assessment drives pedagogy, so if assessment doesn't change, it's difficult to teach in new ways. It's bad pedagogy, and needs to be challenged.

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Learning with e's

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. New methods cannot be fully explained or justified by old theories.

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Learning with e's

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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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2019

In online and virtual forms of education, especially blended forms of pedagogy, learners are constantly transitioning between complex states as they learn, interact with their tools, content and with others; and as they navigate, discover, create, organise, remix, repurpose and share content. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

In my Learning is learning post yesterday, I started a debate about andragogy and pedagogy. I held the position that the theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles) adds very little to our understanding of learning. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 23, 2015

As a result, there are many educational approaches, a myriad of theories and a bewildering number of perspectives. Social constructivist theory clearly derived from this set of tenets. Aristolean realist theory became the basis for behaviourist beliefs that content was central to education, under the control of experts.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Blogging has always been one of the ways I best express my ideas, and coupled with teaching, public speaking and a number of interviews on video and through podcasting, it has been my main channel of communication and dialogue with my professional community in recent years. Unported License. As this blog approaches 8.5

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

For me, the worst enemy is bad theory. Bad theory, when accepted without challenge, can lead to bad practice. It's insidious, because bad theory that is accepted as fact without a full understanding of its implications, results in bad teaching, and ultimately, learners will suffer. Riener and Willingham again: ".learning-styles

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

From this, the many definitions and perspectives that were offered made me think that each could be elaborated on, supported with pedagogical theory and opened up for further discussion. I previously wrote on the subjects of the meaning of pedagogy and the meaning of education , and attempted to address the question ' what is learning ?'

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

From this, the many definitions and perspectives that were offered made me think that each could be elaborated on, supported with pedagogical theory and opened up for further discussion. I previously wrote on the subjects of the meaning of pedagogy and the meaning of education , and attempted to address the question ' what is learning ?'

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. I plan to explore several of the older social science theories, and compare and contrast these with some of the newer, emerging theories to determine what they offer. We have the technology.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. A closer look at cognitive load theory (Sweller, 1988 ) reveals that human processing relies predominantly on visual and auditory stimuli, but this is limited. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. Canadian teacher Dave Cormier borrowed from the earlier post-modernist work of Deleuze and Guattari to create his rhizomatic learning theory. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2013

Too often we gather to discuss education, to expound on learning theories and to congratulate ourselves for our pedagogical prowess, and yet we miss the crucial element, the context which should be central to everything we do. We have been teaching this way in schools for years, and it is about time it stopped, was their message.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Don't worry though, there's a theory for everything, including chaotic forms of learning. Post modern theories of society are often difficult to comprehend, largely due to the dense and at times inscrutable style in which post-modernist theorists write. Why then do we teach? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

tools or user generated content tools are very exciting and I think promise to greatly enhance distance teaching and learning. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). However, I also realize that “teaching presence” can be very valuable and in some cases may be indispensable.

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KnowledgeOne

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In an interview conducted by the TALON online teaching and learning network, Lisa Forbes and David Thomas discuss game pedagogy in higher education and online learning. She is also a licensed counselling professional and is studying to practice play therapy. Journal of Teaching and LearningVol. Forbes, Ph.D.,

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Don't worry though, there's a theory for everything, including chaotic forms of learning. Post modern theories of society are often difficult to comprehend, largely due to the dense and at times inscrutable style in which post-modernist theorists write. Why then do we teach? 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

AUGUST 31, 2012

Teacher beliefs about pedagogy are central to the successful integration of new technologies into schools. If teachers believe that technology adds no value to their teaching, they will simply not use it. 1992) Accessibility and stability of predictors in the theory of planned behaviour. Unported License. and Azjen I.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 5, 2012

Learning technology has taken me all around the world to teach, speak and research, and I see no respite in the travelling as my schedule shows. My presentation is entitled 'Learning on the Social Web: Evolving Digital Pedagogies', and will feature a number of theories old and new, and how they are being adapted as explanatory frameworks.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The methods we use to try to align school and university teaching with the demands of contemporary society will shape the extent to which we succeed. People teach each other by passing on their knowledge, and learn within their community of practice, focusing on their specialisms. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I also promised to blog about some of the alternatives when it comes to teaching very large groups, and here it is. One of the first things to understand about teaching large groups is that they are made up of many individuals who are all just as anxious as each other to do well in their studies. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This is number 34 in my learning theories series. Psychologists and cognitive scientists have offered a number of useful theories that aid our understanding of learning. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 15, 2016

This is number 35 in my ongoing series on learning theories. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. In this post, I present a brief overview of Julian Rotter's locus of control theory. The theory explains social dimensions of personality.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Some loved his earthy, no-quarter given demolition of an host of established theories of learning. What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. John Gardner (no relation) once declared 'Too often we are giving our students cut flowers, when we should really be teaching them to grow their own plants.' Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

These are some of the most important things I have learnt from my 40 years working in educational technology: Technology doesn't improve teaching. If you are a good teacher, you can teach well in any context, either with or without technology. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 28, 2022

“ Maldives, sand, resort ” by Julita is licensed by Pixabay. Assessments have tremendous value when they are properly leveraged and this webinar will teach the following strategies: How to use results to drive behavioural change. And it’s just getting busier. One way is to carve out an hour and attend a free webinar.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 25, 2016

I talk a lot about the emerging theory of paragogy and how it can be applied. Paragogy in action - students teaching teachers I was interviewed by two of YMT's young digital journalists Amy and Anna, who quizzed me on my views about using technology in schools. Unported License. They video recorded throughout the day.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Professional content It may be my perception, but the pedagogy that is often so prevalent in the writing of teachers, about resources for teaching and learning, is often scarce in the writing of instructional designers, when writing about the same things. those who cant, teach. Those who cant teach, teach gym."

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

I have never taken a class in pedagogy. I have never taken a course in adult learning theory. I have learned everything I "know" about instructional design and teaching by doing. Had thought I would go into teaching. Some folks escape the corporate world to teach; others flee the teaching world to get a "real job".

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

. -- -- CU Online Handbook - University of Colorado Denver (Update 12/06/2010: suggested by PRL ) Do you currently teach online? Have you thought about teaching online but for some reason haven’t done it yet? Allen bridges the gap from theory to practice on both training and educational programs. Learning 2.0

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

But I dont think folks are comfortable with the notion that TEACHING or TRAINING can or should be messy. What makes for messy training/teaching? The training doesnt teach what the participants want or need (failure to consult with actual learners while designing the program). United States License. And messy e-Learning?

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