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Sparks of Openness

Working in the open - it often feels counter-intuitive. What if someone criticises my half-baked idea? What if they make it…

6 years ago

Embed Practice

Whilst prepping for a design-a-thon for a digital literacies MOOC for teachers with my We Are Open colleagues, we talked…

6 years ago

SATs – they don’t tell you.

Meaningless, meaningless all is meaningless... ...and mildly oppressive. Does a filter bubble exist where everyone in it thinks SATs are actually…

6 years ago

We make this road by walking

Catherine Cronin put me on to the book "We make the road by walking" by Paulo Freire and Miles Horton.…

6 years ago

Open Badges 2.0

I attended the badge summit in London last week. I had the opportunity to visually digest the chatter from different speakers regarding V2…

6 years ago

The Principles of Makery

As I thought about the making process behind my Raspberry Pi being installed as protector of my shed from overheating, I…

6 years ago

People and Jobs

I attended a Cities of Learning event recently, hosted by the RSA. I've long been interested in this project, and…

6 years ago

Pathways

Gold, Silver, Bronze, yawn... This (standard) approach prevents the issuing organisation from having to think too deeply about how learners might interact with…

7 years ago

The future of testing

I read this guardian article recently where a woman asked Tinder for all her personal information. They sent her 800…

7 years ago

Academic failures – got any previous?

We carry around our academic failures like previous convictions. If pressed, we might even blame something: but I'd never even been…

7 years ago