Break the chain
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” J-J Rousseau. As I finally sit down to capture my reflections on the much hyped technology Blockchain, I was quickly […]
Bringing down the pyramids
As the recent #OERxDomains21 conference drew to a close, I found myself calling, via the chat, for a levelling of the pyramids. I want to reassure that I was not […]
Disrupting the disruptors: freeing learning from the banking model.
I’m returning to my thinking space today thanks to a provocation from Donald Clark. There is a grain of truth in each of his points about open badges but I […]
What does Closed mean when you are an Open Practitioner?
Lockdown life sees us all very familiar with the notion of closed. Everything, apart from supermarkets and chemists, is closed in the UK for the 3rd lockdown since this time […]
The price of freedom
This is the first Saturday since I retired that it feels like I have gained a new freedom. Strictly speaking there was one previous Saturday but that was filled with […]
An unwanted gift
So, Christmas Eve was highjacked by the expectation of an announcement on that long disputed Brexit deal. The discussions went on and on and finally concluded in the evening with […]
Why I signed the #OpenCovid4Ed pledge
Inspired by this initiative I am dedicating this post to making explicit the reasons why I belive it to be so important at this point in history. I will be […]
Under pressure
Up very early this morning. Couldn’t stop my mind returning to yesterday, running over and over my mistake. Beating myself up. So here I am back at my reflection space, […]
Go on, you deserve it!
It is a strange Easter sunday. It didn’t quite feel like a celebration as the family can’t be together but we spoke skype. Youngest son works for the NHS and […]
All in this together #covid19
Challenging times indeed. I’m not alone though in seeing that the current approach taken by Boris, which runs counter to the more cautious approaches we’re seeing in other countries, reflects […]
