Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We encourage them to develop their own Personal/Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) so they can lock into and exploit the vast communities of practice that already exist out there in the rapidly expanding Blogosphere and Twitterverse. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We learn by doing, and we more actively engage with learning when we create artefacts that can be shared within social contexts such as communities of practice. Sharing of other forms of content such as images and videos can be easily achieved with the use of photo and video sharing services such as Flickr and Youtube.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2012

The image above, taken in Melbourne, Australia, is a performance of learning that includes several disciplines, including engineering, design, construction and mathematics. From the sharing of knowledge comes the discourse that adds to everyone's collective knowledge within the community of practice, and extends its boundaries.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The image above is the evidence of our random scribblings and more considered workings, showing some of the links we think are important. Will we see a greater emphasis on communities of practice as a result of mobile tools and technologies? Who knew that there was a link between GPS, geocaching, bumpsharing and airdropping?

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Mindflash

MAY 10, 2012

Design New Hire Classes as Communities of Practice. If a community of practice is a group of people who come together with a shared interest and work as a group to improve, why couldn’t a group of newly hired employees organization as a CoP with the common interest in learning what they need to do their job?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There is a great deal of cross over here with personal learning environments (PLEs) of course, particularly in relation to user generated content and sharing within a community of practice. et al (2007) Personalised Learning: Ambiguities in Theory and Practice. Reference Campbell, R. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 3, 2011

The ability to connect into and engage with global communities of practice is unprecedented. Image source by Riza Nugraha Parrot fashion by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Well, I suppose you could always learn parrot fashion. Main story by Bob Gass.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We are connected educators, linked in to a number of powerful global communities of practice, and we have access to resources, dialogue and audiences we would not enjoy in a traditional learning and teaching role. But what tools do we use to enable us to connect with these communities, resources, audiences around the globe?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Does the author have his own version of Creative Commons?" In so doing I hope the community of practice I value, the readers of this blog, and those who are as passionate as me about learning and technology can read, be aware, assess and otherwise discuss the implications of it. For me, it's a form of cyber bullying.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Here I do not refer to any hard artificial intelligence model of computation, but rather a description of the manner in which networked, intelligent systems respond to the needs of individual learners within vast communities of practice. Each learner will become a nexus of knowledge, and a node of knowledge production.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Once I have analysed the data, I am usually able to arrive at some conclusions and write some form of report, which is likely to include a set of recommendations that I hope will benefit my community of practice. Such findings should be published widely to inform the entire community. Image source PELeCON is reborn!

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 9, 2016

To enable students to remember ideas and concepts better, associations can be made with objects, images, sounds, actions, tastes, aromas and other memorable sensory experiences. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Jahoda Ideal Mental Health 20. Koffka Gestalt theory 21. Köhler Insight learning 22. Knowles Andragogy 24.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Probably the best form of critical thinking emerges from dialogue within the community of practice. Image by Enrique Sanabria Everyone's a critic by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Carr and Kemmis (1997) highlighted the importance of dialectical thinking.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2010

When we take what others have created (thanks to creative commons and a loosening of the grip or ownership and copyright) and we repurpose them for our own use, our own informal learning. The more we lay down these pathways, the more we are building the community of practice that is Web 2.0.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogs can become a rallying point - a tribal totem - around which people can come to terms with ideas, change their approach, exchange best practice, and generally engage with their community of practice. It is a lot more intimate than the community that gathers around a peer reviewed journal article. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2011

For me, blogging is now the first place I consider when I want to disseminate my ideas quickly, directly to my own community of practice, and in a form that is considered relevant and accessible to those who are engaged in that particular sphere of activity. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Selecting the right tools that will enable each of us to connect into and plunder the collective intelligence of the most relevant communities of practice is one of the new digital literacies professionals and students will need to draw upon. If used properly, social media can provide rich social and intellectual rewards.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 16, 2007

Copyright is an issue, and not many people understand the notion of creative commons. The question was posed: do students know the possible consequences of posting for example, images of themselves in compromising contexts on FaceBook? for this read 'drunk and disorderly').

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2009

It has an awesome array of choices, and is responsive to the needs of communities of practice as well as the individual. The personal web by contrast, moves along lightly at the pace of its users, being directed as changes and personal needs dictate. UK: England & Wales License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Imagine content being changed and updated automatically, based on the activities of a global community of practice. Imagine new content being created automatically on the basis of the actions of like minded scholars in dispersed locations. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

You can literally tap into any community of practice that you are interested in and find people who are very clever and knowledgeable and get almost instant answers from them. The biggest surprise for me so far has been social media: it is the biggest thing in the last ten years to hit the world of learning technology.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. It's early for this technology, but I'm paying close attention to solutions that will enable video to be delivered much more like images. Here's what came up.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 4, 2014

For example, you can start from scratch and build content in either of these tools or you can import PowerPoint presentations, videos, and images and use these tools to create interactive objects, add audio and export a variety of formats, including SCORM. Find Your Community of Practice.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 4, 2014

For example, you can start from scratch and build content in either of these tools or you can import PowerPoint presentations, videos, and images and use these tools to create interactive objects, add audio and export a variety of formats, including SCORM. Find Your Community of Practice.

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