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: communication
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Can we afford the affordances of technology?
Many will be noticing that the technology tools we have found useful over the past 10 years as part of the growth of Web 2.0 are increasingly looking for business […]
Independence day
“I am not anti business but…” I caught myself saying recently in an open education online conversation. I felt I should unpack this on my blog and provide some examples […]
Reflections on virtual placemaking
Today I was fortunate to be able to participate in a discussion which was part of the MELSIG conference at Edgehill. The SIG is a community of practice for media […]
Espace Sisyphe 