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Community Alignment model v0.5

Thanks to feedback from various people and some wonderful drawings by Bryan Mathers, I’m delighted to announce that the Community Alignment model has reached v0.5.

Check out Community Alignment model v0.5

Note that the text of this version continues to be released under a CC0 license – meaning you can do whatever you like with it. Bryan’s drawings are released under a CC BY-ND license. This means that, while you can use them for whatever you like, you must attribute them (and you mustn’t change them).

Please, please give us feedback! You can do this via Twitter, in the comments section of this blog post, or by email. This can only get better when lots of people are looking at it and attempting to apply it to their context!

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

Bryan Mathers: who are you and what do you do?

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I’ve known Bryan Mathers for a couple of years now. We met through a shared interest in Open Badges and, during that time, I’ve seen him flourish as a visual artist. The interesting thing is that this is not his full-time job: it’s an interest of his that really impacts on his work.

Bryan kindly allowed me to interview him earlier this week to discover even more about what he does. You can listen to the whole 56 minutes of audio using the embedded player at the top of this post – or I’ve chunked it up in sections below! I think you’ll enjoy his insights. 🙂

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1. Introduction

digital-apprenticeship

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2. How Bryan started drawing

Reflector / Creator / Curator

Notes and links:

  • We beat creativity out of kids.
  • Bryan was discouraged from doing art at school
  • Got started trying to visually represent programming concepts

3. Open Badges and community

A bluffer's guide to Open Badges

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4. Drawing and thinking

Formative vs. Summative assessment

Notes and links:

  •  Cartoon – https://twitter.com/BryanMMathers/status/559762642009878531
  • Doug’s work on ambiguity
  • Creative Commons licensing
  • Mix by FiftyThree


5. The drawing process

Teaching is not a delivery system, it's an art form (Sir Ken Robinson)

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Conclusion

nice-job-belshaw

Many thanks to Bryan for giving up his time to share his thoughts – and for the kind drawing he created especially for me! (above)

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