Comments for Andrew Dubber

Comment on I’m bored with your ideas now by Jamie Bullock

Jamie Bullock — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:33 +0000

Well, here’s an idea: an idea board. Think “kickstarter meets I So Wish” — “My idea is…”? You add a brief description of your idea, and people can comment, up vote (down vote?) or ‘pick up’, which means they intend to take the idea forward and implement it. Maybe it could have kickstarter integration. Front page could feature “top ideas” and “what’s new?” as well as a search. There would be social networking integration, so I can alert a group of contacts about an idea relevant to them.

Better way of sharing/discussing ideas than blog comments?

Comment on I’m bored with your ideas now by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:42:45 +0000

Ha ! Love the headline. That’s one reason we tell people to give us their idea in under a minute. We find the best ideas are easily explained and understood.

Comment on The most important movie ever by dubber

dubber — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:21:44 +0000

Now, six months later, having seen the film, I’m pleased to say it actually managed to surpass my expectations. Really.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… FOOD by dubber

dubber — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:24:55 +0000

My contribution here… Machine that makes a perfect poached egg every single time, Heston-style.

Also toast.

Fill a basket with eggs at one end. Set the timer. Go to bed. In the morning, it heats to 80 degrees, gently breaks in the fresh eggs, filters out the most liquid part of the white and then cooks the egg slowly to perfection. Maybe it makes the bread from scratch too. Slices it, toasts it, butters it, puts the egg gently on top.

Also, it grinds the coffee and makes espresso. Basically, a breakfast robot.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… TIME by Stef Lewandowski

Stef Lewandowski — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:41:00 +0000

Idea: Timeshifted twitter.

I’d love to follow lots of people from America (for instance), but their tweets always come through at 2am when I’m not awake, so it’s kind of pointless.

Timeshifted twitter lets you follow these people, but delays their tweets so that they appear in your timeline at the same time of day as they posted them. This means I get daytimey/nighttimeey feeling tweets from anyone I follow irrespective of their location.

Been thinking about making this for ages… maybe I should.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… EDUCATION by Jamie Coles

Jamie Coles — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:09:17 +0000

We should stop boxing kids into being analytical and allow them to engage creatively. What benefit is an essay and a presentation that a story and a film couldn’t tell? Keep them jumping through the hoops of academia but in as an expressive way as possible! Especially in this digital, participatory age.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… EDUCATION by Jamie Coles

Jamie Coles — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:06:46 +0000

@Dan: Personality types and learning styles pigeon hole students in my (and several other's) opinion and have been widely discredited in the classroom. I also think that its healthy for differing personality types to engage with one another. I do think that its important for people to understand their personality type but know actually what it means rather than just being told you're an ENTP for example.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… HOUSEWORK by Albert Freeman

Albert Freeman — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:07:08 +0000

OK, so what I am about to say is hardly something you’re likely to want to discuss over a dinner party, and it’s hardly a groundbreakingly innovative idea, but my desire to reuse/recycle wherever possible leads me to the following:

Before throwing away socks/pants I’m never going to wear again, I use them once to clean the perimeter of my toilet. No need to use new resources for such a task.

If anybody else does this too, I don’t want 1% of your old socks. ;-)

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… EDUCATION by Carl

Carl — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:41:59 +0000

My idea is that schools begin to offer learning tracks apart from the written word.
Conventional education is skewed towards the reader– really giving an advantage in life and society to students who are good readers. The deck is stacked. Poor or lackluster readers are thought to be less intelligent and so on. Well, my point, might be best illustrated by an assembly manual. Some people prefer to read directions; some people prefer to see pictures of how something’s built and go from there. If it were school — the reader would have been honored and promoted. The person who relied on pictures? They would have faced the stigma about not being able to read. But they LEARNED how to put the thing together just as well (maybe better) than the reader.
The world is changing. Schools must catch up. (When I want to learn something these days I usually SEE how it’s done on youtube).
This is just an idea…a debate, I suppose is warranted. But not here.

Comment on Let’s hear your idea about… EDUCATION by Rich

Rich — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:16:28 +0000

I’m slightly biased here, given what we’re doing with Planzai in Higher Education. I think an area / idea that needs attention is motivating learners. There seems to be a large group of people who go to University but actually lack the motivation to learn, or it drains away. I think its down to a lack of inspiration that arises from a 1toN classroom and structure that doesn’t allow for tailoring. Is there a way to personalise teaching to continually inspire learners?