Here is the archive of open visual thinkery in chronological order.
One of my favourite classical works is Franz Liszt’s piano remix of Beethoven’s nine symphonies (here’s Gould playing No 6). He filters what what was created for an orchestra, squeezes it for two hands and one instrument. For me, it created a bridge to access and appreciate the original; a way in… Black pen on white paper.…
“the promise of NGDLE remains fuzzy and inchoate to most of us, a dream of algorithmic secret sauce that will rescue us in the near future if we trust in the industry to provide.” From Interventions by Brian Lamb.
Web2.0—the web of platforms, personalization, clickbait, and filter bubbles—is the only web most students know. That web exists by extracting individuals’ data through persistent surveillance, data mining, tracking, and browser fingerprinting and then seeking new and “innovative” ways to monetize that data. As platforms and advertisers seek to perfect these strategies, colleges and universities rush…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
What, me? Nooooooo, I’m definitely a carrot…