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Niall Watts

@niallwatts

Educational Technologist

 Dublin City, Ireland
Joined May 2009
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Gobbins Cliff Path, County Antrim. My #WalkForRagheed
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I have just retired from UCD after almost 40 years working in EdTech. It was great working with so many colleagues in Ireland and around the world
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Useful collection of theories instructionaldesign.org/theo…

Learning Theories - InstructionalDesign.org

Information Pickup Theory (J.J. Gibson) Information Processing Theory (G.A. Miller) Lateral Thinking (E. DeBono) Levels of Processing (Craik & Lockhart) Mathematical Learning Theory (R.C. Atkinson)...

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Interesting read ... edsurge.com/news/2018-07-24-…
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Slides from #edtechIE19 slideshare.net/niallwatts/te…
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Preparing my presentation for EdTech2019. Trying to summarise key points of research for 20 minute slot #ilta
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Little grebe on new UCD lake @UCDGreenCampus
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Venturing forth in Wicklow town
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Submitted my PhD thesis today. Thanks @_conorgalvin for supervision and support and to @kcor1964 for being a critical friend @orla_hanratty for proof reading and to all other friends and colleagues who helped along the way @SchoolofEdUCD
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#UCDEdTECx @gconole Starting her keynote... a vision for the future of technology-enhanced learning
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#UCDEdTECx Beyond Transition Leveraging the Potential of Brightspace ucd.ie/edtecx/ @D2L_EMEA
#UCDEdTECx @EoMcEv Introducing Annotations & Feedback in Brightspace @D2L_EMEA
#UCDEdTECx @evakilarm Brightspace module builder practical session
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dorothy@dorocas13 Dec 2018
#EMINENT2018 ⁦@_conorgalvin⁩ shares #ITELab_eu with open invitation
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ITE lab where technology meets pedagogy #EMINENT2018 #itelab_eu
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Opening ceremony of #EMINENT2018 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: on importance to reflect for the future
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Keeping sport in perspective
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How ‘long’ is too ‘long’? Interesting post on video from David Hopkins disq.us/t/25760px
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Interesting comparison between research and practice in education and medicine bit.ly/edtechmed
Why Ed Tech Will Fail to Transform Education (for Now)

Why Ed Tech Will Fail to Transform Education (for Now)

The push to solve education’s problems through providing better tech is a little like trying to invent the pharmaceutical industry in absence of a modern medical profession. In this post, we …

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The degrees that make you rich... and the ones that don't - and all the factors that come into play bbc.com/news/education-41693… Would be interesting to see the same for Ireland
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