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What you see is what you do

Learning with 'e's

I also suggested that affordances of IWBs should be considered when deploying them in learning and teaching contexts. Affordance was a term introduced by psychologist James Gibson to describe all of the potential applications a user might perceive from the (visual) design features of tools. Thirdly, IWBs are versatile as tools.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

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One argument goes that filtering prevents exploration and blocks students from using tools like Facebook for academic causes. From 2007-2016, the number of students who experienced bullying roughly doubled from 18.8% To learn more about web filtering, sign up for our newsletter: Another, that it is a breach of student privacy.

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Need a Substitute Teacher? Try an ELF Instead

Edsurge

In 2007, a trio of Harvard researchers found that “even 10 days of teacher absences can have an impact.reducing, for example, students’ math achievement by 3.3 This year, at Lexington High School (LHS) when teachers are absent, an “ELF” now greets students in a collaborative learning space. percent of a standard deviation.”.

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Designing Student-Centered Learning Experiences With Technolgy

EdTechSandyK

This content below is written as a reflection on what I learned in week four of the Teaching with Technology course I am taking as I pursue a master''s degree in educational technology leadership. The power of cooperative learning, or as Pitler et. This transitions me nicely to my second learning theme for this week.

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

tools and disrupt class activities. Wikispaces is topical right now given the announcement to close – I am still wondering how I can archive 200+ wikis before July… BTW – there is a dead link in the post, the Flat Classroom 2007 wiki is here – [link].

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Firstly.the Social Web connects people together At Plymouth University, we very quickly began to explore the ways Social Web tools could support our students. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Continues tomorrow.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S.

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