Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. Leave the store.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

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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Learning with e's

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. How willing will they be to take on a less central role in this new pedagogy ? Unported License.

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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. It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages. Lessig, 2005, p.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 22, 2015

The advent of social media has further advanced this evolution at a pace. There will no doubt be several conversations, some around usability, others around technological or social trends, and of course, we will address the perennial questions about pedagogy and the impact of technology on learning. Join us tonight at 19.00

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2017

It's great to keep in touch with them via social media to see how they are doing. They achieve this through innovative pedagogies, creating great learning spaces and with a liberal dose of technology. If you're a teacher, you will take pride in your students and their achievements. Those who have studied on the B.Ed Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education? It's a common psychological phenomenon to feel that although you are separated by distance, the technology actually mediates your connection with someone else. Wheeler, S. ALT-J , 15(2), 103-117.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. Now, I don't normally pay that much attention to lists of top ten or top whatever, (they cause too much controversy!) Agility – Teaching Toolkit (ranked 9th in 2014) 10.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 1, 2016

We discussed the evolution of social media in higher education and also how institutional virtual learning environments (learning management systems) are being developed to cope with new demands of new learners. How do we reconcile these differences? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. The 20th Century was the century of the moving image. Unported License. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. The 20th Century was the century of the moving image. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2013

I pointed out recently that many of the older theories of pedagogy were formulated in a pre-digital age. Learning Theories for the Digital Age from Steve Wheeler Photo by Steve Wheeler Learning theories for the digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This can be hosted photo and video sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube, or social networking sites such as Facebook, but are equally likely to be curation and aggregation tools such as Scoop.it Blogging can take many forms from purely textual to multi-media, incorporating images, hyperlinks, audio and video. and Pinterest.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 19, 2015

Someone remarked that they thought it was strange that I ''interposed media between myself and my students.'' No, you can be assured that if I use any technology with my students, it is for a clearly thought through, and logical reason that supports good pedagogy. Twitter continues to be a versatile tool for good pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We''re also in the age of the learner as their own node of production – it''s exciting to see students working with their teachers to create, organise, repurpose and share content on a global scale through social media and personal devices. Photo by Derek Bruff What is digital learning? 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. Students become the nodes of their own production, creating content and sharing it through social media tools, much the same way a gardener would cast seed on the ground. the teacher). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

In this photo I'm with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, at a conference in Salzburg, Austria. I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory. As ever, your comments on this blog are welcome.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2016

4) One of the most powerful methods of learning (and associated pedagogy) is to incorporate social media into mobile phone use. Photo by Steve Wheeler #LearningIs mobile by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2015

It rides on the back of the willingness of some maverick teachers to practise new forms of pedagogy where learning takes precedence over teaching, and where being a content expert is less important than being a co-learner with one''s students. ''I said MIT Media Lab''s Joi Ito. Photo by Ian on Flickr Something old, something new.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The last two decades alone have seen a rapid rise in popularity of the World Wide Web, smartphones, social media, social networks, augmented reality, wearable technologies and user generated content sites. What do new learning environments promise in terms of new learning, new pedagogy and new opportunities? Unported License.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Predictably, the somewhat negative spin in the article provoked a small storm of social media comments and TV interviews, while the anti-technology brigade gleefully rubbed their hands. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. All teachers would agree with this. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Predictably, the somewhat negative spin in the article provoked a small storm of social media comments and TV interviews, while the anti-technology brigade gleefully rubbed their hands. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. All teachers would agree with this. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. For example, social media is encouraging learners not only to discover existing knowledge, it is also enabling them to create, repurpose, organise and share new knowledge.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

We could tell in the late 1980s that multi-media was gong to be very big. Digital Learning Futures: 3 things about future learning from Steve Wheeler Photo by McKay Savage on Wikimedia Commons All our tomorrows by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2014

It is not difficult to see that such sharing of knowledge can be easily achieved through social media and the use of personal digital technologies. In essence, it highlights the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation , and the potentially different learning outcomes each might yield. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from the website nomination, with endorsements from a former student and a current student: This team has been developing a collaborative, open and meaningful social media presence in e-learning and primary pedagogy. Photo by Amy Parkin Inspired by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2015

Some are ditching their training rooms in favour of digital delivery of content, and bosses that are forward thinking are investing in social learning, social media and mobile devices to support the learning of their employees. Many of them are free and easy to use, and there is a definite pedagogy underpinning the use of these technologies.

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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. Photo by Steve Wheeler Teacher beliefs by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 and Azjen I. 1992) Accessibility and stability of predictors in the theory of planned behaviour.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. Thus my colleague Jon Dron and I have been building an Elgg–based open access social media system at Athabasca University that offers much more student control, ownership and persistence to create learning “beyond the course”.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2013

Those of you who have ever attended a Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference, or even followed from afar via the social media channels will know that Pelecon is an extraordinary event. Photo by Jose Luis Garcia Pelecon flies higher by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. Present-day students, who interact with a steady stream of digital media throughout the day, are generally unsurprised by video in the classroom; if anything, they expect it. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2012

So Freire didn't actually live to see the power and potential of social media, or the impact blogging would have on education. Here is my interpretation of some of his ideas, drawn from his most celebrated book 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', and presented in six key points as they might apply to the art of educational blogging.

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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. Students become the nodes of their own production, creating content and sharing it through social media tools, much the same way a gardener would cast seed on the ground. the teacher). Unported License.

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