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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. Boy, have times thankfully changed, but I have not.

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Shifting Paradigms

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

After whimsically naming my blog ‘Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts’ on a blog service called Elgg, and publishing my first post on March 29th, 2006 (reposted here on March 26th, 2008), it is now evident to me that I’ve fully transitioned to my Daily-Ink blog. This blog became a learning space for me.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

social web) tools in teacher education for the last two years and have attempted to qualify their use in a number of areas of learner support including shared online spaces (Wheeler et al, 2008) and blogs (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). We therefore designed a number of activities for the wiki. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S.

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

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The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. Yeomans, P.

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

Learning Confluence

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. Not wanting to bore you with too many details, I do want to share this little nostalgic journey with you… February 7, 2008 – What a way to turn the day around. I am the IT Director at Qatar Academy, Doha, Qatar at this time.

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Work in progress

Learning with 'e's

More importantly, such activities have been shown to be very beneficial for all those who participate to learn together (Wheeler et al, 2008). Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor.

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An audience with.

Learning with 'e's

I did some early studies into the effects of this when I implemented a programme wide use of wikis in 2006. Clearly these are all very desirable graduate attributes, and needless to say, wikis and blogs now feature as essential ''learning by doing'' tools in many of my undergraduate programmes. Photo by ClintJCL An audience with.

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