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Bringing down the pyramids

May 2, 2021by teresamac 1 Comment

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 […]

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oerxdomains21, reflection

Disrupting the disruptors: freeing learning from the banking model.

March 22, 2021by teresamac Leave a comment

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 […]

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agency, communication, open badges, philosophy

What does Closed mean when you are an Open Practitioner?

March 7, 2021by teresamac 1 Comment

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 […]

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agency, open practice, power, retirement

The price of freedom

January 9, 2021by teresamac 1 Comment

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 […]

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#opencovid4ed, agency, communication, philosophy, power, reflection

An unwanted gift

December 24, 2020by teresamac 1 Comment

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 […]

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Why I signed the #OpenCovid4Ed pledge

September 1, 2020by teresamac Leave a comment

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 […]

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#opencovid4ed, agency, power, reflection

Under pressure

July 4, 2020by teresamac 1 Comment

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, […]

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communication, reflection, technology

Go on, you deserve it!

April 12, 2020by teresamac 1 Comment

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 […]

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All in this together #covid19

March 15, 2020by teresamac Leave a comment

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 […]

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Incentivised culling

February 29, 2020by teresamac Leave a comment

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 […]

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teresamac

teresamac

Experienced language educator and innovator, now retired. Taught and managed language teaching (French and Spanish) for 35 years, researching voice over the internet and telecollaboration (virtual exchange) in language teaching, informal learning, assessment and learning theories.

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