Category: Ideas

08/02/2021

Selective democratisation of the arts: who needs your book, song, painting? No one, that’s who

When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody. (Fran Lebowitz). I recently saw this statement in a social media feed. Momentarily I thought someone had singled something pithy out of the current Lebowitz programme being screened on UK television. But on a quick Google search I realised this is a billion-shared meme. Which...

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10/12/2020

Smart Learning really is a thing

Catching up on current happenings in smart urban creative and learning initiatives using digital interactions to engage with place and the city I’m following up again on my continuing academic assertion that situated digitally mediated creativity, perhaps especially writing (aka writing the smart city, hyperlocal publishing, ambient literature, twitterature …) is a real opportunity for learning and engaging with place...

Categories Blog/Ideas/Learning & Teaching

16/07/2019

Learner Experience Variables

This post discusses an idea I’m working on as part of further implications arising from the PhD. The idea is the potential to develop learner experience variables data values that could be used to help machines see more complex kinds of learning experience present in digital interactions and learner generated content within emerging technology mediated smart learning contexts. In turn...

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15/05/2019

The Moment of Clarity

Another in the series of posts on analysis of data and finding clarity I’d covered my floor with printout tables from a variety of papers to help conceptualise how I would achieve what I was supposed to achieve. I didn’t know what I was really supposed to achieve beyond what it should look like. That was the key. I knew...

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06/05/2019

Radical Candor, Radical Constructivism

In a professional environment it’s difficult to speak out and say what you really think. Often you might wait until bursting point and then everything comes out under the cloud of a bad temper ‘emotional outburst’. You get a reputation for having tantrums, and anything you’ve said gets very likely dismissed without a second thought. I speak from personal experience,...

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09/03/2019

Meme Me

Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts, and are cut up snippets.

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27/01/2015

DigiClass

I’ve done some interesting work for a London based inner city charity developing a curriculum for age 12-16 yr after school classes, teaching digital skills that would lead on to accredited learning, using an approach of a ‘Level 0’ syllabus construction. The system of accreditation is based on what is provided by the British Computer Society, using a mixture of...

Categories Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Work

24/01/2015

JOYnd

​JOYnd was an idea with some concept for a ‘GPS enabled’ employability network, aimed at any person new to the job market who has marketable skills. This might be graduates, but it might also be the new entrepreneur schools or tech short-school attenders. It was at a pretty raw stage but I believe potential exists within the loose concept. Main...

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22/01/2015

Reporting Live

Reporting Live: The State of Today is a new project. I’m aggregating a number of feed sources to automate the generation of an OPML which I can then do ‘fun stuff’ with. I really like the idea of art through data visualization and this is my first serious project to do that (though Baby Saatchi may also turn into that...

Categories Ideas/Words

17/01/2015

Mediabank

​Mediabank was a six month project working with several students on the undergrad and postgrad programmes for Digital Media at London Met. My brief was to work with a small team providing practical work experience by producing suitable marketing materials to help promote the courses. I’m a big believer in ‘authentic marketing’ so it was a real pleasure to be...

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