Bryan Mathers

Creative Constraints

One of my favourite classical works is Franz Liszt's piano remix of Beethoven's nine symphonies (here's Gould playing No 6). He…

8 years ago

Algorithmic secret sauce

"the promise of NGDLE remains fuzzy and inchoate to most of us, a dream of algorithmic secret sauce that will…

8 years ago

Web 2.0 Country

Web2.0—the web of platforms, personalization, clickbait, and filter bubbles—is the only web most students know. That web exists by extracting…

8 years ago

Exit Planet Brexit

If there's one thing I've learned from kids (including my own) is that if you're losing a game of something,…

8 years ago

POSSEE

Doug Belshaw was the first to enlighten me on this self publishing principle, and encourage me to set up my…

8 years ago

A personal API

So in the middle of reading Jim Groom's post on The LMS is dead, and getting my head around next…

8 years ago

NGDLE Perspectives

On the one side, it's good to give a nebulous thing a name - even better if you're first to…

8 years ago

Building a Learning spaceship…

Lego is an interesting metaphor to choose for a next gen learning environment. Let's build a spaceship! If only it…

8 years ago

So what will a NGDLE look like?

According to the Educause report, the emerging needs of a NGDLE are these: "Its principal functional domains are interoperability; personalization;…

8 years ago

NGDLE

I've had a few blog posts fly past my nose on twitter recently. So I thought I'd take a day, do…

8 years ago

Don’t touch the wire

I'm helping to run the code club at my kids primary school. Kids being kids, and adults being bombarded with…

8 years ago

A very carroty stick

What, me? Nooooooo, I'm definitely a carrot...

8 years ago