I discovered early on that new students like lists. There’s something comforting in the fact you are reducing uncertainty of any domain into a finite group of steps. Of course it’s not only students. Education is the same- 5 minds for the future,  Seven Myths of Education, and even the Trivium whilst we’re at it! So…

In creative media courses these days, Bloom’s taxonomy, when expressed hierarchically like in the image below, (a la Maslow?) can look like a batenburg cake. I worry about the phenomena of “Bloom’s empty sandwich”, where students are remembering, understanding and creating, but have little time for the filling of applying, analysing or evaluating. This cauterisation of certain…

I’m a product of a career path that went from being employed by many education institutions who wanted me to help them marry industry practice with course content. I’ve been an intermediary between industry and HE- interpreting vocational practices and “levelling” them or simulating them. I’d written hybrid training/education courses (which I’d now label as…