“Blessed are people who see beautiful things in places where other people see nothing” – Camille Pissarro This is the 3rd blog entry in a series of four in which I aim to draw comparisons between the paradigm shift in education today (in particular, the influence of mobile and connected learning), and the Impressionist Art Movement. My main point is that something considered to be avant-garde or revolutionary eventually becomes quite ordinary, and therefore we need not fear s

First off, I need to admit that I am American but have adopted the OU in certain words like “colour” – perhaps it’s all the Agatha Christie books I read as a kid (I remember getting “glamour” marked wrong on a 6th grade spelling test), or perhaps it’s because I have a lot of dear friends from the UK and Canada. Sorry if it seems a bit pretentious, but this post is about crafting an image and sticking to it – not caving into the “norm” or external pressures. This is a #rawthou