Thoughts on Alt-C
I got back from the Alt-C confernce in Manchetser late last night and have spent today catching up with the urgent stuff. Now I have a lttle time to write up a quick reflection on the week’s events. So...
View ArticleVygotsky and Personal Learning Environments
I have a 18 year old intern student, Jo Turner-Attwell, working for me. When I was in Vienna at the ECER conference, I left her the task of looking at Vygotky’s work in relation to Personal Learning...
View ArticleExploring Personal Learning Environments
In September, we organised a symposium on Personal Learning Environments at the the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), “an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main...
View ArticleUsing computers in exams
Late yesterday afternoon I had a phone call from BBC Radio Wales asking of I would come on the morning news programme to talk about the use of computers in exams. According to the researcher / producer...
View ArticleImplementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues
I have been invited to particpate in a workshop on ‘Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation‘, being sponsored by the EU funded Stellar Network...
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Innovation in Training practice
| Get your SlideShare Playlist For the last two days I have been moderating at the second on-line international confernce on innovation in training Practice. the conference, organised by the EU funded...
View ArticleThe value of being an intern
For me my internship with Pontydysgu has been more than just work experience, it has also been about gaining valuable life experience through learning to communicate in another language and living away...
View ArticleThis years most desired Christmas gift – a Blackberry of course!
I am very fond of saying that we must look at pedagogy first. Technology is just a tool. But of course it is an important tool. And despite all the interest in mobile learning, thus far practice has...
View ArticleInformal learning – linking the University to the outside world
One frequent comment I get from teachers when talking about the use of new technologies for learning is the need for examples of effective use in practice. And all too many projects, national and...
View ArticleDeveloping mobile applications to support My Learning Journey
A quick post about mobile devices and work based learning – which I know I have been going on about a lot lately. So far most of the work on mobile learning at a practical level seems to me to fit into...
View ArticleAre we missing reflection in learning?
I have recently been looking into reflection within learning and was writing out some notes on this when I found myself tying in Vygotsky. Reflection within learning is something I do not feel is...
View ArticleReviews, quality and the development of communities of practice in academic...
I have just spent the morning reviewing proposals for the Vocational education and Training Network strand at the European Conference for Educational Research. I have never enjoyed reviewing papers. I...
View ArticleUsing mobile devices for learning in the workplace
I’ve written a lot recently about the potential of the use of mobile devices in the workplace. Last summer, together with my colleagues John Cook and Andrew Ravenscroft, we coined the term Work...
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Rethinking e-Portfolios
The second in my ‘Rethinking’ series of blog posts. This one – Rethinking e-portfolios’ is the notes for a forthcoming book chapter which I will post on the Wales wide Web when completed.. Several...
View ArticleReflection and people central to developing knowledge
A quick report from the European Commission funded Mature project. I am in Vienna this week at a meeting of the project consortium. The project is researching how knowledge matures in organisations and...
View ArticleThe use of mobile devices for learning and the importance of context
The next in what will, I suspect, be a series of short posts from the Mature project meeting in Barcelona. Last year, the project reviewers asked us to develop more challenging social and technical...
View ArticleWorking, learning and playing in Personal Learning Environments
Working, learning and playing through Personal Learning Environments View more webinars from GrahamAttwell. I have been invited to deliver a keynote presentation at the PLE 2010 conference in July in...
View ArticleDigital literacy, stewarding and reflection
The explosion of powerful, innovative and free to use social software has transformed the potential approaches to using technology for teaching and learning. Long gone are the days when e-learning...
View ArticleOpen Learning Analytics or Architectures for Open Curricula?
George Siemen’s latest post, based on his talk at TEDxEdmonton, makes for interesting reading. George says: Classrooms were a wonderful technological invention. They enabled learning to scale so that...
View ArticleReflective learning environments
The Reflective School by Peter Pappas on Prezi Reflection is a thing pedagogic researchers and Technology Enhanced Learning developers talk about a lot. To little end I sometimes think. It can be a...
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