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 […]
Author Archives: teresamac
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 […]
Incentivised culling
The deliberate creation of a scheme to reduce expenditure on the most vulnerable in society has been one of the Tory party’s key policies over the past 10 years or […]
Joining the dots: #femedtechquilt
This fabulous idea set me in a real spin over the Christmas holidays. I have happily promoted it to others through all my channels but my own participation brings huge […]
