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Dave Cormier, Musk, and Climate Change: A review of “Learning in a Time of Abundance”.

Back in June 2023 Musk Tweeted What has this tweet, and climate change got to do with Dave Cormier and his new book?   Let’s start […]

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If you set a minimum standard…

… that’s what they’ll strive for.  I was recently asked how I would change something to make the accessibility elements more in line with inclusive principles. […]

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Means. Motive, Opportunity: A Composite Narrative about Academic Misconduct

Reposted my original post from the National Centre for AI  I would like to thank the late Andrew Cormack for his support in approaching the […]

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(Not) Writing with an AI

This is not a post about AI per se, it’s about my writing process. I was chatting to a colleague this week about the tool […]

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Consumerism – Neoliberal Education – Climate Change

I spent some time over Christmas reflecting on digital education and the post I wrote about digital capabilities and climate back in July, mostly because […]

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Accounting for the climate in digital capability: initial thinking

Right now in the UK we are focused on climate change.  Why? Because we just broke previous temperature records – we hit 40°C– for colleagues […]

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Zoom and Room: hidden labour

We need to recognise the labour involved in these emerging practices; existing teams are great at making things happen, making it feel possible, and making it as simple as they can for those of us who are experiencing it as users. But if the practices are to be embedded and widespread, that extra labour needs to be recognized and accounted for. People often can’t just turn up and flip a switch.  And those who are told it’s just that easy are being sold something. In some institutions I am seeing a lot of recruitment in learning design and technology enhanced learning roles, in some I am seeing restructures with no overall increase in numbers, and of course some are either not changing or even reducing their numbers. 

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Chasing Unicorns: how the EdTech Unicorn Pin came to be

Three of us sat together at “yet another edtech conference” we were probably listening to a wild-eyed techno-solutionist deliver an “ode to the new LMS”, […]

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Reflecting about adopting more technology

This is just me thinking out loud…  My wife went for a run at the weekend. She does that.  I do not run, for the […]

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Looking Ahead!

St Lubbock’s Day! Well one of them. One of the things about bank holidays that come after a long break is that I always feel […]