What happens to a dream of Cancun deferred? Does it explode like a raisin in the sun? or does it congeal into a tropical rum? Preferably in my mojito.
Our flight to Cancun was delayed. We woke up at 5:00 and went to Newark, cleared security, went to the gate and then, and only then, did we see that the flight had been cancelled. We are rescheduled for tomorrow, so we will wait and see. Regardless, I will do another post from the field, so to speak. I am bringing my computer with me so there will be some blogging beachside.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
