Bryan Mathers

Curious Intelligence

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

2 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…

2 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…

4 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…

6 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...)…

6 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…

6 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…

6 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…

6 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…

6 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…

9 months ago

Permission Slip

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

10 months ago

Facepalm

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

10 months ago