Open Badges: Why and How
Michael Gallagher Open Badges: Why and Why Not I have been wanting for some time now to learn how to make and issue open badges as I have been conducting workshops and…
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Learning, Creativity, & the Purpose(s) of Education
Creativity: Assumptions and Materials This post all revolves around a few very debatable assumptions, so I am certainly open to being challenged on these. The explicit assumptions are as follows,…
The quantified self: charting navigation through time and interest
My relationship with numbers I should begin by saying I am not a very quantitatively-oriented person. I am not particularly good with numbers, but I do recognize their value in…
Learning trajectories and multimemberships: amoebas and not arrows
Amoebas and not arrows: trajectories and multimemberships In terms of our learning and identity and motivation, we are all amoebas and not arrows. We push on all sides, some more…
Vernacular mapping, psychogeography & biking: teaching to generated space
Mind mapping and psychogeography from Michael Gallagher on Vimeo. Schizocartography, vernacular mapping, psychogeography My once and perpetual supervisor/mentor, Dr. Sian Bayne at the University of Edinburgh, sent me this article…
Aesthetic literacy: emphasizing process over output in learning
Aesthetic literacy and learning in the open from Michael Gallagher on Vimeo. My colleague Pekka and I recorded a discussion we had the other day on ideas that came out…
Managing course feedback with Evernote (and Feedly) without a centralized blogging tool
This might be common knowledge for some of you, but I just stumbled across it so I wanted to share. I have written a few times before on how I…