Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

Ephemeral

We talked of this for days and I was drawn to the subject
And you, perhaps bemused by such enthusiasm
Coupled with my shaven face
Made you believe I was younger than my years

Frosted bananas in the freezer
Elicit metaphorical glee
And memories
Of snowfalls in Indiana
Allow me to continue forth with this
And the bare emotion that I am allowed
To foster
Shall spill from this cup
For the years I might
Be allowed to live
Trying to prove beyond a point
That frozen bananas are so powerful an image
as to make my teeth chatter
And I appreciate your patience
in letting me stumble through my ephemeral inspiration

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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.

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