Wikipedia - Active vs Passive Learning
Horrible Histories? Absolute genius. I’m sure it’s creation needs deep understanding in order to use the weapon of humour around a topic. I’ve found the same is true with imagery (indeed Horrible Histories uses imagery so well), and so I love it when my son is able to deploy his own Visual Thinkery in school homework – which often contains humour too, if he thinks he can get away with it. Teach to learn…
This off-the-cuff comment by Lucy Crompton-Reid at the recent OER conference resonated with me, and it illustrates one of the simplest techniques of creating thinkery: to draw out the contrast between two things.
Happy Birthday Wikipedia - I've always been a fan! Knowledge curated by humans that I've…
This visual story is taken from The Visual Thinker - Let there be light and…
This tasty little visual story is about the types of potato grown in Ireland in…
Here's another little visual absorption from the Reclaim Open blog-a-thon, relating to a blog post by Doug…
This week I'm tuning into Reclaim Open to try and make some visual sense of…
Prepping for a Visual Thinking workshop at DCU in Dublin last month (part of a…