L&D Connect – what would you do…?
Great question from L&D Connect this week – ‘if you could slow down, totally, and utterly, what would you do with the extra time and space available to you?’
Donate your tech
If you’ve been fortunate to upgrade your tech recently maybe you could donate your older stuff to great projects like Digi Local, Little Lives UK or Computer Aid. It really could make a huge difference to a child or young person’s learning in this current environment.
A New Year’s Honour for Jo Verrent
Really interesting piece from Jo as she reflects on her reasoning for accepting a New Year’s Honour.
Human insights and big data
OK, this one’s a bit mischievous given that the Arts Council has just announced its first Chief Data Officer. As a qualitative researcher I am often concerned with the ‘knowledge we have lost in information.’ (TS Eliot) Very happy that Tricia Wang talks about quantification bias, thick data and the value of ethnography.
Chie Hitotsuyama – serious paper
Wonderful piece on the extraordinary paper sculptures of Chie Hitotsuyama.
“Old thrown out newspapers attracted me as a medium, not only because they are easily obtained, but also, they are an accumulation of history and contain stories of human behaviour. I see the correlation in how humans repeat their own histories as well as experience the cycles of life and death.”
Singularity by Marie Howe
Stunning poem and a beautiful animation. Something to contemplate.