Thinkery - Open Visual Thinkery

Here is the archive of open visual thinkery in chronological order.

Exit Planet Brexit

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from kids (including my own) is that if you’re losing a game of something, a pretty effective strategy is to change the rules. The other thing I know is that in a divorce, the only winners are the lawyers. The people have spoken. Yes – and they continue to speak. Brexit is…
POSSEE

Doug Belshaw was the first to enlighten me on this self publishing principle, and encourage me to set up my own site, and publish out from there. Every drawing should have it’s own canonical link he’d say. Unambiguous words, and I’m glad I listened. This rang true again when working with Jim Groom and Reclaim Hosting on…
A personal API

So in the middle of reading Jim Groom’s post on The LMS is dead, and getting my head around next generational digital wonderment, I found myself jumping into Kin Lane’s post on the Personal API. As a programmer, I’m aware of what an API is and how it works, that it becomes a fundamental part…
NGDLE Perspectives

On the one side, it’s good to give a nebulous thing a name – even better if you’re first to give it a name. It allows momentum to gather, and dialogue to take place. It allows hashtags and domain names and conference streams to beckon interest. On the other hand it allows labels to be…
Building a Learning spaceship…

Lego is an interesting metaphor to choose for a next gen learning environment. Let’s build a spaceship! If only it were that easy. If only it was clear what construction was actually needed. In my experience of building platforms, it’s rarely clear. Competing voices, with competing features. But apologies, here I am talking platform once more. Jim Groom’s…
So what will a NGDLE look like?

According to the Educause report, the emerging needs of a NGDLE are these: “Its principal functional domains are interoperability; personalization; analytics, advising, and learning assessment; collaboration; and accessibility and universal design. Since no single application can deliver in all those domains, we recommend a “Lego” approach to realizing the NGDLE, where NGDLE-conforming components are built…
NGDLE

I’ve had a few blog posts fly past my nose on twitter recently. So I thought I’d take a day, do some reading and then draw whatever appeared in my head… Next Generation Digital Learning Environment – a LEGO approach… From this report by educause.
Don’t touch the wire

I’m helping to run the code club at my kids primary school. Kids being kids, and adults being bombarded with ideas, it wasn’t too long before we had decided to build a “Don’t touch the wire” micro:bit based game for the school fayre.
A very carroty stick

What, me? Nooooooo, I’m definitely a carrot…
Chameleon Branding

Maybe if we change it to a Union Jack Tree, they’ll think we’re that too?
I hope this forecast is wrong

I hope this brexit fuelled forecast is wrong.
The Open Web

What is the open web anyway? Maybe the contrast with the closed web is helpful: platform silos, sticky enough to ensure our dependence on them, with the primary intention of creating maximum value for their shareholders.