Blog Posts – Education Innovation - I Built My Own Education

November 7, 2024

Everthing I learned folding t-shirts two nights a week

“What I needed was a part-time night job. Part time so it would not steal most of my week outside of work which I would use for building my creative endeavours. Also, it needed to be a night job s...

September 29, 2024

I've now signed off on my Education Innovation final Project

Building My Own Education a.k.a. my Education Innovation final project is now complete! This final project not only defines the philosophy behind my self-education approach, but it also det...

September 29, 2024

I Built My Own Education is now Building My Own Education

To be clear, this website - ibuiltmyown.education - is still called I Built My Own Education. However, the final project for the Education Innovation concentration, which was originally titl...

September 29, 2024

Why education needs to be more highly valued

For the final assignment of my What future for education MOOC, I had to produce a video reflection in which I explored an idea for improving the education experience. For my reflection, I decided ...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface studies page

The following is the studies page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site.The studies page listed all the MOOCs and courses I was undertaking during the period when my Postgradu...

July 19, 2024

Building, crediting and utilizing your learning

Blog post originally published in 2015. On building... While I have undertaken somewhere in the region of fifty online courses, I am not suggesting that you do the same, unless you want to. ...

June 15, 2024

MTA outline for the Breaking Cinema Vision Document

The following is an outline for my MTA Portfolio that I included in the Vision Document for the Breaking Cinema podcast project. I included an outline of my MTA Portfolio because Breaking Cinema w...

April 26, 2024

10/02/2016 is the day I self-declared my master’s degree

The following declaration is from an email I sent to my mother and sister detailing my postgraduate plans. The idea to build my own master's degree had been forming all throughout 2014 and 2015, b...

February 27, 2024

Components 1 & 4 of my Education Innovation final project are now up

I now have all the components of my Education Innovation final project up. Component 1 is about my education philosophy and how this informed the creation of my MTA Portfolio C...

February 6, 2024

Figuring out my focus: In my values, in my learning and in my creativity

Breaking Cinema was a documentary podcast project I developed between 2014-2016 and which now forms a component of my Creative Technologies Sandbox. My vision for Breaking Cinema had been t...

January 30, 2024

Intelligence is not a pigeonhole, it’s a flock of birds in flight

We can trick ourselves into thinking that measuring a person’s intelligence is like measuring a five-year-old’s weight. What measurement you get applies only for today. How will that child measur...

January 22, 2024

Component 2 of my Education Innovation final project is now up

Component 2 of my Education Innovation final project is all about the creation of ibuiltmyown.education. It took a fair while to do the write-up on the process of building ibuiltmyown.educ...

January 21, 2024

A Lesson Plan for Greening the Student's Mind

What follows is a lesson plan assignment I completed as part of the Journey of the Universe Specialization I studied on Coursera and that resides within the Environmental Sustainability concentrat...

January 21, 2024

The Complex Problem of the UK National Education System

What follows is an assignment I submitted as part of the Solving Complex Problems Specialization I studied on Coursera and which resides within the Environmental Sustainability concentration of my...

January 20, 2024

Component 3 of my Education Innovation final project is now up

Component 3 of my Education Innovation final project is actually about the creation of this blog on ibuiltmyown.education! Go to component

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