1. Some thoughts on pedagogies

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Secondary-school teacher
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eLearning 2005
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Masters in 2007
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Teaching and learning in the digital space
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Unique level of support from my school
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Current interests Junior Cycle Reform: Shortcourses and Whole School CPD

4. ...Freire (1970) rejects what he calls the banking
concept of education where knowledge is the
property of the teacher, rather than an act of
knowing between teacher and student. This act
of knowing is what Freire calls dialogue, where
teachers and students empower each other and
fulfil each others vocation to be more fully
human (Freire 1970).
...dialogue for Freire is an epistemological position
and is not to be reduced to a technique.

5. How can I use Moodle, a collaborative online
learning environment, to improve my practice
as a history teacher, as I encourage my pupils
to think critically?

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Moodle Forum What Does It Mean to be Irish
in 2007?
Historical Context: The Irish Ireland
movement of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
Forum Start Date
February 2007.

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Technical Reflection.
Descriptive Reflection.
Dialogic Reflection.
Critical Reflection.
Contextualisation of multiple viewpoints.
Hatton and Smith (1995)

9. Reform....Learning as a Process rather than
product
Freire’s...act of knowing...
Discussion...assessment of that act of knowing
Portfolios (e or otherwise) to capture the
learning

11. Great teaching traffics in enduring
puzzlements and persistent dilemmas.
Certainties are closed streets, not locations
that interest the mind.
Great ideas have legs. They take you
somewhere.

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The Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
“The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are
many ways to see and interpret the world.”
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My opinion – that digital and social media will
allow this

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“... A blog is a web log and can be simply
described as an online space where posts are
made by the owner of the blog and
comments are returned by anyone who
wishes to respond. ...”

14. ......as a way of expression (Eisner) and of
dialogue (Freire)

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eLearningIsland (2009 – present)
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2OG blogs (2010)
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Ada Lovelave (2013)
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Twitter (2011 – present)

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as a way of expression (Eisner) and of
dialogue (Freire)
Expression Yes
....but what of the dialogue??
Little dialogue – more a monologue

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Ideas that work in teaching and learning – Flickr,
Twitter, live-streaming....
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Connectedness (and none)
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Policies around Social Media in schools
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Ideas about how to take control of your online
space
◦ Filter Bubbles
Eli Pariser
◦ Virtual Communities and Collective Intelligence Howard
Rheingold
◦ Networked Publics danah boyd

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Moved eLearningIsland onto Twitter about three years
ago
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Pushed my ideas further into the educational space
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Most tweets are related to education
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Tweet within educational hashtags #edchatie
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More space for dialogue
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More possibilities for expression

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Network of trusted educational relationships
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Quality of the content
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People
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Engagement of the presentation
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Simplicity
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Consistency