Students and schools: imports, exports, and some flattening of context
Michael Gallagher Reposting this here from the original post for Panoply Digital. Returning to a favorite (re: only) theme of mine, education, I was struck recently by the uptick in the number…
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From makerspace to future fiction to blockchain: notes from this week’s events and Amara
We have had three events this past week for the Near Future Teaching project here at the University of Edinburgh. All well attended, well received, and ultimately all generating well…
Gender Inequality in Education: Datasets and Sources
Returning to the subject of education and gender, this post is a bit more about using the data available to you to make informed decisions when running ICT4D projects. For…
Emergency response (and digital) education research at Interweaving Conference at Moray House
Speaking briefly today at the Interweaving Conference at Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh as part of a showcase of the work of the Centre for…
Anonymity in Mobile Messaging: Criminalization, Luxury, Permission, and Persistent Presentation of Self
Clearly a favorite subject of mine, I am returning yet again to the subject of surveillance and privacy in the digital and attempting, clumsily, to link that to development work…
Research in Emergency Aftershock Response (REAR) Literature Review: Disaster Response, Gender, Resilience, and Appropriate Technology Use
I have been working the last six months or so on a NERC funded project at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh titled REAR…
Digital divides and accumulated advantage: Huawei Global Connectivity Index and the Business of Education in Africa
I have been spending some time with two reports recently that have me thinking a bit about the outcomes we in the ICT4D and digital education fields are looking for…