Category: #thinkery

A Conspiracy of Manipulation

It’s not easy to think for yourself when you’re constantly being manipulated. This visual thought was for a talk I gave to some young people.
In all things…

“In all things, It’s better to hope than to despair…” Goethe. I saw this thought and had to draw it.
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…
Digital Transformation Machine

This drawing was generated as a result of a great round table discussion by Digital Colleges, hosted by IBM.
Getting your idea off the ground

This visual thought was a result of a meeting hosted by the Forward Foundation, including Nominet Trust, Big Lottery, and a number of other social funders. It was an excellent event – and I tried to capture the what all the speakers where saying in order to revisit some parts for my own non-profit, wapisasa.
Education is Changing

However, here’s a visual thought I captured from a speaker at the ALTC conference, Catherine Cronin, care of a quote by Joi Ito.
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…
What teaching is not

This was a thought I came across whilst listening to Graham Brown-Martin’s Learning {re}visited interview with Sir Ken Robinson – who seems to talk a lot of sense.
Online learning is an entitlement

This image was produced for Education Technology Action Group ETAG report (etag.report) and shared at the BETT show in London.
What if assessment was designed around me?

This image was produced for Education Technology Action Group ETAG report (etag.report) and shared at the BETT show in London.
Education – a thought by a bright spark

This image originally credited the statement to W.B.Yeats – although as it turns out (thanks to @edutopia) it’s more likely to have come from Plutarch…