Category: #gathering

Celebrate your Milestones

This thought was created as part of a collaboration between Doug Belshaw and myself. If you haven’t already its worth having a look at Doug’s “Community Alignment Model” – something Doug’s a bit of a master at…
BBC Badges

This flow was created for Ralph Rivera at the BBC to illustrate how badges could be used to recognise Knowledge, Competence & Character. I’ve always thought the BBC could be an interesting issuer of badges – though I’m possible influenced by the Blue Peter badges…
Assessment & Pedagogy

Here’s a thought from Bob Harrison, of FELTAG fame. I think its a good one.
Credential Monopoly

We’ll it’s alright for me. When I was your age, Higher Education was free. And they gave out grants for living costs. Still, if you’re privileged you’ll probably be ok…
PISA…

Whilst at BETT this year, I got the opportunity to hear Sir Ken Robinson speak. Here’s one of his off-the-cuff comments about PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) that stuck in my head…
Linear vs Non-linear learning

I don’t think we learn well in straight lines – at least I don’t. To learn is to understand, to understand is to explore in multiple directions multiple times. What I bring to a learning experience is different to what everybody else brings, because we have all had different experiences. Maybe our education system is…
The Digital Skills Sandwich

The Digital Skills Sandwich illustrates how a fluid de-centralised community approach to badging could fit between the underlying Mozilla web literacy map and an overlying recognition element, in this case a vocational qualification such as an apprenticeship.
Digital Transformation Machine

This drawing was generated as a result of a great round table discussion by Digital Colleges, hosted by IBM.
The ETAG challenge

This image was the result of the inception meeting of the Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), with Michael Gove and Matt Hancock setting the scene.
The Learning Black Market

Here’s a visual thought I captured from a speaker at the ALTC conference, Catherine Cronin – “…students navigate for themselves the gulf between formal and informal learning…”
Downes Theory of Education

I’ve always found Stephen Downes weekly summary of all things learning tech related a source for all sorts of goodies. Here’s one of his statements that I thought deserved an visualisation.
Reinventing yourself…

A thought captured from the Connected Courses project (connectedcourses.net) following a comment from Meredith Broussard – which struck a chord with me…