Learning with E’s
from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler
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Pedagogy in the digital age is profoundly social, involving the negotiation of meaning and the co-construction of knowledge. It is about learning together. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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Self-determined learning pathways are crucial for individual learners as well as learning communities and they are by their very nature beyond the control of universities and schools. Schools and universities cannot (and should not attempt to) harness these processes, but they can facilitate them. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital […] Read more →
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Teachers [need to] wake up to the fact that they don’t teach subjects, they teach people. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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Learning by making causes abstract ideas and concepts to become concrete because they are situated in real life contexts. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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In his theory of constructionism, [Seymour Papert] argued that we build mental representations of what we learn, and that the situated nature of where we learn influences and strengthens that representation. In other words, we learn by doing and building within relevant environments, and that authentic tasks can be very powerful in support of that […] Read more →
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Ivan Illich: ‘Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.’ from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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Getting in the way of learning can be just as much a problem as neglecting to support students. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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William Butler Yeats: ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →
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Educators need to continue to challenge the idea that acquiring knowledge is the only goal of education. from Learning with E’s: Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age by Steve Wheeler Read more →