This week has been really busy, mostly doing research around academic behaviours during the crisis. We’re learning really important stuff and we hope to be able to share early findings soon and publish later in the year. And this is a short reflection, prompted by the conversations with academics, and my own engagement with people.…
The end of my week 5 in lockdown (and I know that is not the same as my country’s lockdown period but right now I am grateful for my organisation who decided we should all work from home earlier than required). My twitter timeline blew up this week over a couple of articles, one in…
Well it’s now Week four… We’re starting to reflect and understand a little more about how we work in this situation. Maybe. Maybe for some, not so much for others. Most of my current work is now focused on the future, looking at what we are doing now, looking at the impact and the ramifications.…
It is the end of week three. This is a week I would have been on the NB Haversham, a narrow boat, with friends from the US, cruising the picturesque, lazy backwaters of the Blackcountry and Birmingham canal systems. (Video of the NB Haversham in the week before lockdown – Graham Holden) The people I…
And here we are at the end of Week Two. How are people feeling? I was wondering this week if there’s been a bit over compensation to the isolation. FTR, I have been locked up in restricted spaces for extended periods before and whatever hints, tips and tricks you find online to this particular time,…
It’s been a bit of a week hasn’t it? And I am not really sure if this is week one! Three weeks ago I think some people were wondering if there would be an impact, two weeks ago, after having run one of the workshops that she’d come to the UK for, Donna Lanclos arrived…
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Troilus and Cressida Co-authored with Donna Lanclos and Peter Bryant There’s been worry, anger, fear, snark, genuine excitement and lots of emotions in between and around those as responses to what educators need to do to interact with each other, and their students, now that we…
Having friends in Australia, I have been privileged to have conversations with many of them as they have struggled with supporting students through the Coronavirus crisis. I just wanted to post (with their permission) some of those messages here as a way of signalling some of the things that don’t get reported. The text below…
On 6th December 2019 Jisc launched a Digital Leadership community. As the instigator of the Jisc work in this space I was invited to offer some provocations to kick the community off. I have been around the education technology space for a while, and I thought a retrospective on my personal pursuit of EdTech Unicorns…
Today (29th November) I sat in a room full of people who support teachers in further education*, they were earnest and honest and quite frankly a little overloaded in the size of the work they need to do, with little budget, and little support. And still I heard stories of people making great progress and…