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. Over 150 of my third year education students are grappling with this conundrum as I write. It's a tough assignment. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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. 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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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. Academic roles are changing.

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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

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. The Meaning Of Pedagogy (>62,000 views, 8 comments) This was a post I wrote in response to questions from my students while working at the Plymouth Institute of Education. As this blog approaches 8.5

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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

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.

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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? That would make for a pretty limited world.

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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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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? That would make for a pretty limited world.

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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. and Azjen I. Unported License.

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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. Photo by Steve Wheeler.or

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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

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. If you are a poor teacher, no amount of technology will turn you into a good one.

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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. Photos by Steve Wheeler Who's driving? Unported License.

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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). Photo Credit: Audrey Johnson from stock.xchng.

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eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Video: Online Student Experience - WISE Pedagogy , February 9, 2010 The following video by YouTube user mokmcdaniel shows what an online student’s experience would look like if his instructor’s lack of instruction had occurred in a face-to-face classroom. It is so vital to everything to do with teaching. Slides Here are the slides.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Two other significant deaths that slipped under the radar for many, even those in the teaching community, were Gavriel Salomon (January 4) and Alvin Toffler (June 27). Salomon, an educational psychologist from Israel, was interested in studying the effects of technology on cognition and learning. Unported License.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What is the theory that underpins our moocs? version française ) In recent years I have been working on two major concepts:first, the connectivist theory of online learning, which views learning as anetwork process; and second, the massive open online course, or MOOC , which isan instantiation of that process. Page 1 of 2.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 18, 2015

For me this was a skillful, but relaxed and unobtrusive kind of pedagogy, involving every student in the room, debating, deliberating and generally exploring together the nuances and intricacies of our subject. conversation dialogue discussion Dr Ken Gale education learning Learning with ''e''s pedagogy socratic discourse'

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 13, 2016

There has been extensive work around the concept of students teaching each other - otherwise known as peer learning. In terms of Corneli and Danoff's (2011) and Corneli (2012) approach - paragogy - anyone can teach anyone else, because everyone knows something, but no-one knows everything. But peer education can also be reciprocal.

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