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This is a blog of openly licensed thinkery. They are doodles, thoughts and ideas of Bryan Mathers – little curious tidbits which have emerged from juicy conversations. Also, this is a dumping ground for abandoned artwork. But one man’s dump is another’s treasure trove – amirite?

You can include artwork from this site under a Creative Commons CC-BY-ND licence.

  • The ETAG challenge

    The ETAG challenge

    This image was the result of the inception meeting of the Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), with Michael Gove and Matt Hancock setting the scene.

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  • Getting your idea off the ground

    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.

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  • Education is Changing

    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.

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  • The Learning Black Market

    The Learning Black Market

    Here’s a visual thought I captured from a speaker at the ALTC conference, Catherine Cronin – “…students navigate for themselves the gulf between formal and informal learning…”

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  • Downes Theory of Education

    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.

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  • Reinventing yourself…

    Reinventing yourself…

    A thought captured from the Connected Courses project (connectedcourses.net) following a comment from Meredith Broussard – which struck a chord with me…

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  • Learning is a Form of Recognition

    Learning is a Form of Recognition

    This (fairly deep) visual thought is taken from Stephen Downes talk at the Online Educa Berlin Dec 2014 – I thought the roadsigns metaphor would suit the topic at hand…

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  • What teaching is not

    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.

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  • Online learning is an entitlement

    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.

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  • What if assessment was designed around me?

    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.

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  • Education – a thought by a bright spark

    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…

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  • Beerd

    Beerd

    A silly thought breeds a silly image…

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