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How the 8 Effects of Arts Education Are Changing Online Pedagogy, Part 4

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Photo by Teddy Kelly / Unsplash. This series has discussed the way eight learning effects drawn from the principles of arts education can be used to enrich online pedagogy. It is worth concluding this discussion by addressing the principal difference underpinning current online pedagogy and arts education.

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Narrative pedagogy 3: Problem solving

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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. The world is full of problems. It is also the basis of problem based learning (or PBL). Students are presented with a problem and limited resources (e.g.

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How the 8 Effects of Arts Education Are Changing Online Pedagogy, Part 3

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Photo by W / Unsplash. Here then is a key artistic tension between the emergence effect (‘no preconceived problem to solve’) and the coherence effect (‘idea becomes conscious and crystallises’). It draws from Information Theory where redundancy refers to effects which deliberately seeks to produce ‘a surplus of signal over message’.

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Blends, borders and boundaries

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Photo by Sylwia Bartyzel on Unsplash Here are some further thoughts on the 'blend' in blended learning: Blends are made of disparate elements. However, these may be complexities that matter more in theory than in practice. Elements are often separated by boundaries, and these must be transgressed if blends are to be effected.

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Strictly for adults?

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This is number 23 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we review the andragogy theory of Malcolm Knowles.

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The battle for education

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As a result, there are many educational approaches, a myriad of theories and a bewildering number of perspectives. My students are currently grappling with this problem, as they seek to answer the essay question: ''who should define the curriculum?'' Social constructivist theory clearly derived from this set of tenets.

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Making the future of education

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This can be a very powerful means of learning not only about the things you are fixing or modding , but also about the processes that underline them such as risk taking, discovery and problem solving. A specific theory of learning, Seymour Papert''s constuctionist learning theory , could be applied to explain this.