Sorry if this is approaching indulgent, but I wanted to share a few more pictures to celebrate the coming of fall. As mentioned in a wonderful conversation with my brother Brendan the other day, the fall and especially the Americana of high school football games and drives through the countryside is something I truly do miss. I miss jackets and the electricity in the air, the leaves falling and the beginning of school. This is the time of year here in Korea when my dreams become more intense, more precise, leaving me slightly disappointed when I wake up on a Sunday morning. They all drift towards home. My lady keeps me grounded and focused on the present when my thoughts really do levitate equally in the past and the future.
By Michael Gallagher
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.