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Creative Commons – which role do you play?
In my experience, the awareness of what exactly the Creative Commons is, and what rights it affords you with respect to other people’s creative works, is at best patchy. During a conversational thinkery session with Alan Levine, we started to think through some of the roles people can play. I could give examples of all…
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Now, more than ever…
Grammar Schools. You’ve heard it all before. Policy and evidence – passing like ships in the night. I can’t quite figure out whether the UK government are actually serious, or it’s simply just a commotion smokescreen… This bottom line vision came from a thinkery conversation I had a while back with Graham Brown-Martin.
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Any questions?
I’d never really thought about it before, but at school I never asked any questions – I didn’t want to expose the fact I didn’t know something…
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Wot we need is more grammar schools
With all the backward-ness around the teaching of grammar at primary school (talk to any primary school teacher, and you’ll see what I mean), and the announcement by the UK Prime Minister that we need more Grammar schools, I had to create this. I’d love to see educators in charge of UK education. I’m not…
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Shake ya Hass*, but watch yourself…
Our instagram account was removed for breaking the nudity guideline. We don’t think this is fair, but the instagods have spoken. Because we’re rebels, we’ve made a new one. Go follow us at http://instagram.com/visual.thinkery. For your viewing pleasure is the offending image, make sure grandma doesn’t catch you looking at this tasty piece of Hass*… *…
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Why digital credentials?
In my opinion, interviews are a very poor way of judging whether someone will perform well in a job. Some people have figured out the game – how to interview well. And why not? But standing in the shoes of as employer, I want to employ the person who’ll do the best job (and even that’s…
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Chicken and Egg…
I couldn’t make it to ISTE 2016, so instead I joined Doug Belshaw, Noah Geisel and Ian O’Byrne remotely for some off-the-cuff thinkery on Open Badges. Rich dialogue is where the ideas are waiting to be unearthed…
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Badge Pathways
Here’s some thinking on using visual metaphors for badge pathways as a result of some remote workshop thinkery at ISTE.
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Facepalm
What? We’re out of the EU? <facepalm>
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Brexit: The nation speaks
I think we’ll be trying to figure out what the nation actually said for many years to come. That’s if anyone cares to listen…
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Lies…
If I was democracy, I’d be pretty pissed off – getting trotted out once in a generation only to be patted on the back, and put back in the political cupboard. It’s been a great day for lies and liars.
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All lies and jest…
In order to be a leader, you need to acquire a following. In order to acquire a common following, you need a common enemy. These people have made the EU the common enemy. But the EU can’t be the enemy – as we are part of the EU, and therefore it is what we are…
Er… hello?
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