Autonomy and the right to be.
Who decides what you can and can’t do? As adults we like to think we are in control of our thoughts and actions, that we have the tools to make […]
Category Archives: agency
The state we’re in.
A central tennant of the Conservative Party is that of the small state. In other words: minimal governance and regulation, a belief in market forces and minimal commitment to citizens […]
Raise your voice!
I’m very aware that I haven’t been blogging for a while. Partly this is because I wanted to avoid transmitting the negativity I have been feeling thanks to the current […]
Money can’t buy …
The current background of political lies, lawbreaking and corruption in the UK (and elsewhere of course) has drawn my attention to the role of the press in masking truth and […]
Updating my personal story of #open
Looking through Twitter in preparation for the upcoming #OER22 conference I spotted an invitation on twitter to share our stories of serendipity and open. I followed this invitation and discovered […]
A day for reflecting.
Today is a national day of reflection . I have to admit that this seems to be muddied by some of the many awful things going on at the moment […]
The bleedin’ obvious.
Apparently there are both male and female courgette flowers. The males are more showy, they attract the pollinators. Only the fertilized female flowers bear fruit. I have managed to get […]
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 […]
Espace Sisyphe 