Winding down the PhD Journey: Post-Viva Acknowledgments
Michael Gallagher I should have written this last week but I successfully defended my thesis at the Institute of Education University College London. It will take a stretch to process all of…
Baking in the Digital Divide into Mobile Learning: Korea, Tanzania, and Home-Grown Technology
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. A rather belated post for the week but I just returned from the UK where I defended my thesis at University College London on mobile…
Teaching Coding to Kids: Caveats and Initiatives from Africa and Asia
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. Teaching coding to children is, if press reports are to be believed, an educational imperative, some sort of literacy that children can’t live without in…
Mobile Learning in an Age of Surveillance: The Subversive
In keeping with my previous post on smart cities and embedding unpleasant history, my other recent research interest in mobile learning is surveillance, ethics, and privacy. In my more pessimistic,…
Surfacing forgotten histories of smart cities like Seoul: embedding unpleasant memory
My most recent paper in a fluid stage of completion is on the contrast between smart city rhetoric and historical memory in urban spaces. Not that these are mutually exclusive,…
Expat-ness as mobility: imagined communities and liminality
This is decidedly not a utilitarian post as many of my recent posts have been. The truth is I have just completed my thesis and am preparing for defense in…
Rhetoric, Neoliberalism, and Edtech in Liberia, Ethiopia, and South Africa
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. The allure of educational technology in serving those who have remain underserved for so long is tough to resist. It drives us in the…