Thinkery

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

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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*… *…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Badge Pathways

    Here’s some thinking on using visual metaphors for badge pathways as a result of some remote workshop thinkery at ISTE.

  • Facepalm

    What? We’re out of the EU? <facepalm>

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • The trio of entitled tossers

    Much to my disappointment, it looks like this book is set to be written after all.