Bryan Mathers

Curious Intelligence

Prepping for a Visual Thinking workshop at DCU in Dublin last month (part of a conference entitled "Education after the…

5 months ago

Eh? Aye!

I'm as curious about AI as the next guy. Coding? Oh my goodness, I wish that had been around when…

5 months ago

Open Education at a Crossroads

I’ve really enjoyed capturing keynotes and conversations live. It involves being playfully curious about what’s being communicated, and wondering how…

7 months ago

Art vs. Idea

I met Grayson Perry at an event once. When he was asked what is art? He responded by saying that…

8 months ago

A Typology of Interpersonal Recognition

Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. (I remember having to ask what it meant...)…

8 months ago

The Meaning of Recognition

I think in the early days of thinking about open credentialing, I got fixated on the credential part. The proof…

9 months ago

How you made them feel

I was listening to a politics podcast at the beginning of last week (weren't we all?) and a cursory reference…

9 months ago

Microcredentials and Recognition

Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the stories being told. Contrasting two…

9 months ago

Elements of a badging policy

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator. This…

9 months ago

The AI arms race

It seems that somebody somewhere is using new and sneaky ways of getting messages into my inbox. Will AI's many…

11 months ago

Permission Slip

I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred…

1 year ago

Facepalm

I created this thinkery in June 2016. That's probably all you need to know. <cough> Brexit <cough>

1 year ago