Growing a culture of innovation, 2 days at a time…

Innovation is a critical component of the modern…

Complexity, Risk and Innovation in education

Why understanding complexity leads to innovation

The hand and the mind

Why schools need a broader perspective on digital literacy and why they need to embrace the Maker Movement

Having worked with educational development and IT in education for over a decade I have…

Design for learning spaces

Why education needs to embrace new design patterns for learning spaces

Firsts.

Why the more we see, the more we suck at seeing.

Getting to start afresh and craft my first post here gave me a quick flashback of all the careless, cringe-provoking first posts I’ve ever done — first Xanga blog (does anyone even remember these?), first…

Makers, Robots and Kids

Kids are in a Constant state of Prototyping

Learn City Design through board games, video games and movies

A brand new online course on City Design with funny short video lectures and a variety of different assignments

Taking ‘flow’ time, to build deep and wide expertise.

Slow fixing value, in the eye-care value chain…

Ever tried. Ever failed. 

Why failure is so important.

“I dont want to fail”, said a teacher in the audience. That reply to a proposal i made during a lecture today sparked a great conversation.

Avoid being the smartest person in the room

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. — Tom Clancy

As a child of immigrant parents I grew up seeing my parents struggle to try to ensure we had a better life than…