Free for all

Free for all

Image remixed from Flickr user JwvanEck’s FREE • quote from Matt Warman Some people argue that the Internet is the equivalent of a supermarket where you never have to pay for anything. Others say that the costs of internet use go far beyond money. As...
Networks, authority & control

Networks, authority & control

The world wide web was designed to be open. It transcends international borders and allows the free flow of information, which according to the OECD (2017) is important to “trade, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and social prosperity”, but this causes...
Reading: How We Learn – Benedict Carey

Reading: How We Learn – Benedict Carey

A little while ago I read Benedict Carey’s How We Learn. I made a few sketchnotes from the big take-aways & thought I’d share them here. These sketchnotes have formed the basis of a few lessons I’ve taught on study skills to students aged...
Re: We’re all cyborgs now

Re: We’re all cyborgs now

This talk brought together the quite a lot of the key ideas from a bunch of texts that I’ve called ‘big ideas in tech’ on the course I teach. I’ll go through them one by one here. Everyone is carrying a wormhole in their pocket This idea of...