Category: #TOLC

Future College Classroom

This scene is actually taken from an animation that wapisasa created for City & Guilds exploring what a college might look like in 2020.
Formative vs Summative

Steve Wheeler wrote a blogpost a while back and this phase about Formative and Summative assessment caught my eye. It’s been very widely shared since.
Education to Employment

Created for the Education Reform Summit organised by the Education Foundation, this image illustrates the gap that exists between education and work. A degree is not enough…
Digipals

I met Deb Millar at BETT who told me all about the super Digipals programme she had set up at Blackburn College – so I tried to capture some of the essence in a drawing.
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 in Education

I really enjoyed an event recently at Nesta discussing young people and digital makery. Here’s a thought about assessment in education from one of the panel sessions by Jim Knight…
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…
30 years of Vocational Reform

Over the last 30 years there’s been a whole lot of tinkering with vocational education. I’m not sure if we’ve made much progress. Inspired by this report by City & Guilds.
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…