Category: #innovation
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Funding Form
Sadly, this tickly thought is my experience of the funding world – which I suppose is understandable – who wouldn’t want maximum bang for buck? Slow-burning ideas are hard to find funding for.
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Open Badges – now with Endorsements
This thought was created for Doug Belshaw‘s DML blog entitled “Extending Badges“.
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Education Technology
I love Lego, and I wonder how much it played a part in feeding my creative (and constructivist) side. Problem solving, learning to pivot and change direction, creating new worlds with others. Needless to say my kids are all over it…
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What’s in your kitbag?
In order to get a business off the ground, you’re going to need a whole load of stuff (whether you know it or not). A thought after meeting with Lord Young at Downing Street.
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The Fried Egg Model
I’ve been trying to help BETT think about Further Education. In trying to explain how a hybrid approach to an event could work, I inadvertently created the resemblence of a fried egg…
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Recognition of a small step
If we change our outlook from long journeys to small steps how do that effect the landscape of learning that unfolds before us?
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Open Badges
I cant remember where I came across the Maynard Keynes quote, but I immediately thought of the disruption of Education by Open Badge technologies. I was also struck by Bernard Bull’s parallel with the disruption of the Energy market.
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Levers of disruption
Recently, I was asked to speak at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Lab Open week. Another of the speakers was Graham Brown-Martin, whose talk I really enjpoyed. This was just one of the questions he was asking…
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It’s not about the tech…
If you hear Bob Harrison speak, you’ll often hear this statement, this time in the context of a MOOCs discussion. Quite right.
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Getting your idea off the ground
I spoke recently at the ALT conference, where the theme was “riding the wave of innovation” – I always like to explore a visual metaphor…
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Celebrate your Milestones
This thought was created as part of a collaboration between Doug Belshaw and myself. If you haven’t already its worth having a look at Doug’s “Community Alignment Model” – something Doug’s a bit of a master at…
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The Articulation of an Idea
Fundamental Cognitive Error: that we see the world as it actually is, and therefore that everyone else sees the world in the same way as we do. Never mind the ambiguity of language…