Category: #TOLC

  • The Big Picture Machine

    The Big Picture Machine

    Are CV/Resumes the best that we can do to represent ourselves? What does the informal stuff we’ve achieved (that we dont recognise) look like through someone else’s lens? We could do with an (open badge driven) big picture machine…

  • Smart kids go to Uni

    Smart kids go to Uni

    Really? Maybe its just privilege, environment, and the ability to conform and perform within the system.

  • Recognition of a small step

    Recognition of a small step

    If we change our outlook from long journeys to small steps how do that effect the landscape of learning that unfolds before us?

  • Greatness needs to be unleashed

    Greatness needs to be unleashed

    Here’s a thought from Sir Michael Barber, from the Education Refrom Summit.

  • Peter and Paul

    Peter and Paul

    Is it right to take a large part of the adult learning budget and earmark it for apprentices and talk about it like its a good thing?

  • Open Badges

    Open Badges

    I cant remember where I came across the Maynard Keynes quote, but I immediately thought of the disruption of Education by Open Badge technologies. I was also struck by Bernard Bull’s parallel with the disruption of the Energy market.

  • Oerrrrrrr…

    Oerrrrrrr…

    Cable Green of Creative Commons talked us through the 5 R’s of OER at OER15.

  • Levers of disruption

    Levers of disruption

    Recently, I was asked to speak at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Lab Open week. Another of the speakers was Graham Brown-Martin, whose talk I really enjpoyed. This was just one of the questions he was asking…

  • League tables

    League tables

    Well, you’re probably not surprised to hear that I’m not a fan of league tables. I don’t think it drives the right behaviour from schools.

  • It’s not about the tech…

    It’s not about the tech…

    If you hear Bob Harrison speak, you’ll often hear this statement, this time in the context of a MOOCs discussion. Quite right.

  • I always did well at school

    I always did well at school

    A little bit tongue in cheek here, I know, but do you ever get the feeling that it’s very hard for the education system to change itself, when those who are in control of it have done well by it?

  • Getting your idea off the ground

    Getting your idea off the ground

    I spoke recently at the ALT conference, where the theme was “riding the wave of innovation” – I always like to explore a visual metaphor…

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