I’ve had my share of calls too close to mention Window shutters ripped open in the summer storm I’ve listened to the wails of good people struggling felt them all, knelt before them all
Deep waters come to me Flotsam strewn across your brutal face, a careless indignation, regardless of how or why we want to wade in deeper and deeper our knees and trunks and arms and heads bend us further and further out of reach
It is not to be This night, among all others, this life will not be decided here this world will expand and contract code and decipher flatter and cajole
bend and break and buttress but this night, unlike all others, I became cognizant of the fact That this night is not next night Is one less night I can remedy I have to make this night the night The one that I remember
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.
