Category: #learning

Permission Slip

I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred people turned up to hear about my journey with Visual Thinkery – A picture says a thousand words. People were encouraged to bring pen and paper and we had plenty on hand to give out…
Insight, in sight, incite!

I was reminded this week whilst running a Visual Storytelling workshop with a group of Social Entrepreneurs in Lewisham, the power of insight. We all stand in a different place and see the world through our lens of previous experiences. What you see is all there is. It’s impossible to reach conclusions based on things…
Two sides to the story

I’m experimenting with cartoons as Gaeilge (in Irish) in order to help me learn my mother tongue. I’ve been learning for over a year now, and I’ve found it liberating – but difficult. I’ve never had a head for languages – so I’m exploring ways of learning that are more suitable to me. I thought…
Education & Work

This is an idea I created a few years ago using the Visual Thinkery process with Educators.Coop and their collaborators focusing on the world of work.
Achilles Heel to Superpower

The thing I considered my achilles heel growing up, the enemy that was always in view, I now realise as having given me my superpower. I’m even grateful for it.
Pax Calendar

“Suddenly liberated by this new knowledge of old patterns, an unmissable opportunity presented itself to change the world forever. For surely, only a 9-year-old in Lockdown has the keen sense of awareness to set in store a brave new order of time itself. Having an appreciation of patterns and order, my young apprentice immediately adopted…
Rabbit Hole Learning

“As it turns out, the answer is not that simple. You see, Sir Professor Isaac of Newton was so clever, he was born in BOTH 1642 and 1643…” Taken from the current issue of the Visual Thinker. You can subscribe here.
Open Asynchronous Pedagogy

These are pretty weird times indeed. There’s lots of discussion around taking schools online, as we head further towards social lockdown. For most, that’s a new thing – but there are those that have been practising this art for a long time. And as ever, it’s not about the technology, but the pedagogy… This is…
Correcting Imbalances

Created live at the Wikimedia UK Summit, hosted by DMLL, Coventry University, UK.
Editing Wikipedia

It’s one thing to consider the implications of a wikipedia page you’ve just edited. But we are all blindly biased – and this is why a diverse community of editors is essential… Created live at the Wikimedia UK Summit, hosted by DMLL, Coventry University, UK.
I don’t know who…

…wrote my wikimedia biography. That’s rather the point – it wasn’t one person, but a network of knowledge activists. Created live at the Wikimedia UK Summit, hosted by DMLL, Coventry University, UK.
Universities are not the same.

I wonder how a wikimedian-in-residence would affect a Universities thinking towards knowledge activism? Created live at the Wikimedia UK Summit, hosted by DMLL, Coventry University, UK.