Bryan Mathers

Hairy and smooth…

George Orwell was a smooth man like myself, so this is obviously what he was getting at when he uttered…

10 years ago

Changing your world view

This looks all wrong, doesn't it? The thing is, it's not at all easy to change your current world view.…

10 years ago

Learning to Credential

Due to the nature of the system, we start with the Credential and work backwards. Ah. This is further illustrated…

10 years ago

Digital Skills Sandwich

Sandwich anyone? I do love a good sandwich. If potatoes are the king of carbs, then surely bread is its queen?…

10 years ago

Swiss Cheese Knowledge Gaps

This nugget of cheesy thinkery came from hearing Sal Khan speak at the BETT show. He talked about kids having…

10 years ago

Wanted: Honest Frank Feedback

It's easy to look at what you've created and see it as either good or bad. The more you create,…

10 years ago

Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Twitter. Its like this thing, yeah, that you tweet stuff, yeah, but like you're only allowed like 140 characters yeah…

10 years ago

Catalyst of change

I had a very enjoyable conversation with Giles Anderton before Christmas, and this thought appeared. I see myself as a catalyst for…

10 years ago

The Binary Decision

I'm now in the habit of carrying around a sketchbook and scribbling down a thought as it jumps around in…

10 years ago

Creativity in Schools

I watched this video clip of Dylan Wiliam talking about how important creativity in schools is. I worry - and…

10 years ago

The Four Elements of Studentship

I met John Webber from Sussex Downs College recently, and discovered a number of common interests, including Open Badges. He…

10 years ago

Ideation and thinkery…

Oh, the need for a creative process in order to ideate and innovate! In my experience, people have different strengths…

10 years ago

River of Education

I was reading this bit of fluid thinking by Aaron Davis and this thought popped in to my head, so I had to…

10 years ago

Open Badges paint a better picture…

Dr. Doug Belshaw and I got together to think visually about Open Badges resulting in the blog post "3 reasons…

10 years ago

Dyslexia…

I really enjoyed making this visual thought, commissioned by MindshiftKQED to go with "Dyslexia and the Wider World of Creativity and…

10 years ago

What next for Open Badges?

Blockchain, the underlying technology used by Bitcoin, is cool. At least, I think it is, if I could only get…

10 years ago

Hey! How’d you do that?

I’ve been asked many times about how I go about creating visual thinkery - so here's a first stab at illustrating…

10 years ago

Brain bender

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

10 years ago

Higher Education

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

10 years ago

Fooling around at the airport

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

10 years ago

Digital DNA – women in tech

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

10 years ago

Choosing a badging system

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

10 years ago

Badge Platform Questions

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

10 years ago

Maths & English

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

10 years ago