Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

General

Roosevelt and Churchill

This has no real significance, but I like the jocularity of the following quote, taken from Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a letter to Winston Churchill, which goes a long way in displaying the friendship that existed beyond statesmanship.

“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”

However, the following FDR quote is probably much more indicative of an age of modern media transcribing political maxims, of the effort to market war, soft drinks, or SUVs. And while I believe FDR to be our most accomplished and inventive (and devious) President ever, I think he is wrong here.

“A repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

If only it were so; I have seen so much evidence to the contrary Franklin.

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About Author

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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