Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

Sylvia Beach and Aaron Burr in Princeton

Sylvia Beach and Aaron Burr in Princeton, originally uploaded by gallagher.michaelsean.

I had no idea that the great Sylvia Beach was right down the street from me in Princeton. There is this wonderful old cemetery across from the public library that includes Aaron Burr, Grover Cleveland, John von Neumann, a thousand other mathematicians, and the great Sylvia Beach.

She ran the great Shakespeare and Company in Paris and had the gaul to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses when nobody else wanted to. A brilliant lady who deserves a better headstone. Better yet, what brought her back to Princeton (it is a family plot) after her years in Paris? So many questions.

Another reason why it is a great town.

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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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