Brain bender

10 years ago

I’m fascinated by how the brain takes meaning from its visual sensory input. By adding highlights and shadows, suddenly drawings come…

Higher Education

10 years ago

Ok. If you're an academic, and Higher Education and formal learning is the pinnacle of all knowledge and wonderment, then…

Fooling around at the airport

10 years ago

There's always inspiration to be found - even at Heathrow's terminal 5, which (since the day after halloween...) is featuring…

Digital DNA – women in tech

10 years ago

The recent Digital Leaders conference was entitled “Building Digital DNA”. Jacqueline de Rojas (VP at Citrix) spoke about women in tech (or…

Choosing a badging system

10 years ago

With any solution there are often three different approaches: bespoke, modular and off-the-shelf. Choosing the most appropriate path is more…

Badge Platform Questions

10 years ago

A while ago, Doug Belshaw and I were working on the #OB101 course, in order to help others think about OpenBadges…

Maths & English

10 years ago

This thought came out of the table discussion amongst Primary and Secondary teachers. Other subjects deemed less important than Maths…

Feedback…

10 years ago

This thought was mentioned a couple of times. The context of course, was how teachers could provide quick and positive…

Education is what builds community

10 years ago

This was a thought from James Townsend, who works for the Church of England, about just how important education is…

Death of the Saturday Job

10 years ago

What did you learn from your Saturday Job? I used to pick potatoes for my uncle - which taught me…