Learning with 'e's
MARCH 9, 2014
Learning should always come before technology. Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching. The technology, designed to make learning easier, actually ends up making it more difficult. Let me elaborate.
Hack Education
APRIL 4, 2017
I am best known, no doubt, for my criticism of education technology. Often when I say that I think that the “Domain of One’s Own” initiative is one of the most important education technologies, I always hear pushback from the Twitter riffraff. The technologies were not, at the outset, proprietary.
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Learning with 'e's
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Does technology provide any realistic, sustainable solutions? That never worked in the student bar and it won''t work on Facebook. Student groups tend to set up their own Facebook groups anyway, without any prompting from their teachers. If you don''t have the space or time for face-to-face meetings, what can you do?
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.
Learning with 'e's
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. This is particularly evident on a cursory inspection of any social web space, whether it be Facebook, Snapchat or any other popular free space. Yeomans, P.
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 20, 2013
However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ). But it's far from perfect.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 2, 2015
“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. Check out your VLE and see what tools and features already support collaboration and creativity. Does your VLE have forums, offer badges, or allow you to embed? If you are deciding on a VLE, consider the following.
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