Matt Offord
I am a leadership scholar at the Adam Smith Business School and a former naval officer and business owner, leadership writer, blogger and podcaster talking about leadership in the age of data.
Location Scotland
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Thank you Ria and Ben for a really engaging course, I found this so helpful. The most thought provoking theme for me is building on the Freirean project as I have been so inspired by pedagogy of the oppressed. I am a management educator, I am already using some ecopdagogical techniques, but this has inspired me to go 'all-in' and hopefully do some...
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I think all teaching is political in some sense. If we are naming the world, it stands to reason that we will all name the world differently. This is not about accepting or tolerating difference but recognising and embracing it. That is political and will generate resistance.
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I have this book and it goes everywhere with me!
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Hello I am Matt, I also work at the University of Glasgow, I am interested in integrating ecopedagogy into management education, specifically responsible management.
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I think the key to managing it better in the future, but a long road and subject to bias.
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Yes I believe labelling is harmful or can be. I have personal experience of a school labelling a loved one as 'lazy' and simply not listening to family members who pointed out that the person in question was anything but 'lazy'. Again, it's a shame society has moved so slowly over the last 50 years on this.
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Thanks for sharing. How incredibly tough for you. This echoes my own experiences with ADHD and what I've seen of children at school more recently. In many ways, things have not changed greatly since the '70's; although I think there is hope and more is now known.
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I think the issue is one of trying to make all the children conform to some perception of normality. This is not just in terms of ADHD but across any sort of diversity, but especially nuero-diversity. While some teachers are very sensitive to these issues, for many nuero diverse children the temptation is to lable them as 'lazy', 'disruptive' etc. Often the...
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I think the stereotype exists for sure, and then also the denial that its all made up. Education has to be the answer doesn't it? This rang a lto of bells for me. My Nan actually said the best way to deal with me as a young child was to get out of the pram and running about until I was exhausted. She just know instinctively. If everyone had the same...
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I was surprised to hear about the differences in the brain, I wasn't aware 'we' had got this far in understanding ADHD, but its great for putting down the idea that ADHD is a fantasy! Wasn't really surprised about the gender differences, the same is true in autism I believe, quite depressing.
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General 'frustration' I think, with myself and also with a world that moves too slowly (but creeps up on you because you are not watching it).
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I think there is a lot of resistance as the article states and many do not realise that embedding accessibility has improved greatly. Yes, it does take a while to create captions but not as long you would think using modern dictation apps. Some things like alt text are becoming second nature.
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A good example of the problem with universal design is a visual impairment I suffer with. My impairment creates multiple images of objects, especially text. This is made worse by the high contrast versions of printed materials and black on white or white on black formats used in a number formats for people like me with a problem seeing. Rather than continually...
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Practically everything in the list above applies to face to face courses too. Most campus courses are administered using an LMS and rely on TV screens, computers, visualisers and other gadgets. Computer Science lectures may be face to face but rely on computers. Science, Engineering , Drama, Music and many other subjects rely on technology. All learning is...
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I think it is a specious argument to say that online education done badly is not accessible or inclusive. The technology allows learning to he more accessible, that is not a contentious point. If I fail to create captioned videos, I have failed to meet the regulations concerning disability and inclusion. If I was similarly neglectful in designing a face to...
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I think it is very clear that the concept of online education as saviour is sheer hyperbole. There can be no doubt when you read articles such as those making these kind of proclamations, you are reading something designed to be sensational and divisive. Which is not to say that traditional campuses do not have their problems. To a large extent they are...
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Matt Offord replied to adriana rivera valencia
Yeah, that's it many of us and our students are find this challenging on a professional and personal level.
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Great week, this is how you do it, basically! The course serves as a bank of resources and also a template for online courses. Notice no video, no Zoom, just an accessible easy to learn online course. Well done.
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This week has been intense, largely because as a TELT Lecturer, I have been working with colleagues to maintain the pivot online. I do enjoy this, but I still have a lot to learn myself. Online learning was a niche area in my school but is now going through an astonishing transformation. In time we will need more resources and support. But mainly I am...
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I went onto Learning Designer on my phone, it was very hard to use, all the fields jumbled up and top of each other. I hope it is better on a computer.
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I like the story boarding idea. Too often we build a course around a text book.
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I think this section has been helpful. I often point out to students, that for an X credit course they often need to complete X multiplied by 4 hours of self-directed study. But I should have provided more guidance on what they should be doing. For us Moodle provides a good platform to do this. I would create a section in Moodle, perhaps each week, with...
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I do not currently have any teaching, but I have a course who have completed and will submit assignments soon. In the feedback from the course the students suggested more engagement with the industry they are studying (tourism). So I have set up a poll to see if they would be in favour of having a guest lecture on zoom, just 30 minutes for a tourism...
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I work in a business school and my job is to create online courses. So you would think this business as usual, in fact it has come as a shock. Previously we were planning future online courses but now it's all hands to the pumps, especially supporting staff more used to traditional methods. My students are both UG and PG, I also teach F2F. I am reaching out...
