Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2011

With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. Sound like a PLE? Almost, but not quite.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

There is also a belief that, just as the music industry of the late 1970s was stagnating, so the education system of the early 21st Century is in need of a reboot. Punk rock revitalised the 70s music scene and, say its adherents, Edupunk can do the same today with our tired education system. Unported License.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 14, 2011

Innovation is about flexibility, adaptability and related to that infamous "with-it-ness" that educators are supposed to have. Are we innovators in comparison to the national educational community? But it is our attitudes that turn into positives actions that drives real change in education. got a ton of great responses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2011

The United States Department of Education is sponsoring a program called Connected Online Communities of Practice , a three-year initiative. I run what is arguably the largest social network for educators, Classroom 2.0 Can anyone tell me why nobody from the Department of Education called to ask my advice on this project?

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For my class I am taking I was asked to visually represent Connectivism, Communities of Practice (CoP), and Personal Learning Environments (PLE). For this activity I created a board game prototype to allow you to move around the board as you engage with the images. To play the game, make a copy of the game […].

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 183-193. Delfino, M.,

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Check out this little gem from Dan Kennedy on the VLE/PLE debate. Games based learning is currently a hotly debated topic in education and is a fertile field of study (Holmes, 2011; Abrams, 2009). Technology student games education dan kennedy school publication blogging Lucy Kitching' It''s also very motivating for them.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

It was a gathering for learning technologists and educators from all around. It was great talking again with Colin Warren (@colwar) whom I first met face to face in Barcelona at last year's PLE conference, and to feel intuitively that we are kindred spirits. Good on ya mate!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 23, 2015

I first met Joyce at the first Personal Learning Environment (PLE) conference in Barcelona in 2009 and we have been friends ever since. I quickly realised that Joyce and I had a lot in common, including our passion for great learning, technology integration and creative applications in higher education. Far right is George Couros.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you!

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 28, 2015

I first met Alec Couros among that amazing gathering of people at the inaugural PLE (Personal Learning Environment) conference in Barcelona, in 2010. Alec is Professor of educational technology at the University of Regina in Canada. When you hear Alec speak you realise just how passionate he is about openness in education.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 6, 2015

Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Although it''s a fundamental principle of progressive education, keeping the student at the centre seems to be something that not many schools, colleges and universities are good at. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

He has some radical things to say about education, and he isn't always popular. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on social media and education, and around the same time I set up this blog. But he caught my attention immediately, and we struck up a friendship.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 29, 2019

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. I have doctored the image with speech bubbles to illustrate my zeal for educational blogging (read it to discover the joke). Honourable mentions: 6.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2019

The event, organised by the Open University of Portugal , also featured several of the celebrated veterans of open and distance education, including Terry Anderson (Canada), Alan Tait (UK) and Albert Sangra (Spain), whose talks were highly informative and compelling in equal measure.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 1, 2012

I recently gave a keynote at the eLearning 2.0 conference held at Brunel University, in West London. The presentation was a reworked version of one I gave earlier in the year in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Unfortunately, most of us are products of education systems that are based on the industrial model of education which is far removed from personalised learning. Friedrich Nietzsche once said: 'In large states public education will be mediocre in the same way that cooking in large kitchens is usually bad.'

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. Although distance education has been in existence for more than a century, the various technological means by which it can now be conducted have advanced quickly.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2015

The state education system can easily be compared to a railway network. There is plenty of opportunity to deviate from prescribed educational processes, which leads to endless possibilities for personal research and digressions into uncharted territory. To learn at this level of individualisation, the learner requires several things.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 15, 2019

The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education. I care about the education of people, whatever their age, and I want to share what I know.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2018

One of the biggest challenges we face, as educators, is learning how to put our health and happiness first. If we didn’t dig in and find the pieces that educators are passionate about and connect them back into this building, we knew they would quickly burn out. Happy schools start with happy teachers.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 22, 2015

I was interviewed recently by the team from Sponge UK in the beautiful gardens of Drake's Place, at Plymouth University. The video below is the result of that interview, in which I answer questions such as: what emerging technology trends have the greatest potential for learning?

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2018

As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first. If we didn’t find out what educators are passionate about and connect them back into this building, we knew they would quickly burn out. Happy schools start with happy teachers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2018

As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first. If we didn’t find out what educators are passionate about and connect them back into this building, we knew they would quickly burn out. Happy schools start with happy teachers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I''m going to talk about the "Learning Revolution:" why I think this is such an important time historically for learning, tying that back to what I''ve learned in the last seven years of building online communities for education, and then sharing my newest project: LearningRevolution.com. It should even be a little edgy and challenging.

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