Transitions online and working from home
Michael GallagherWe at the University of Edinburgh, like everyone everywhere else, have been scrambling to pull everything online as best as possible this week. I have worked closely with the Learning,…
Digital Education project in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda: Second Year
Our little research cluster of Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, the University of Dar es Salaam and the State University of Zanzibar in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda (and…
New Project: Exploring the Teacher Function: Continuing Speculative Interventions in Automated Teaching
I just kicked off a new project at the Centre for Research in Digital Education building on Sian Bayne's work on Teacherbot. I am joined by Markus Breines, Myles Blaney,…
Research Focus and New Papers: mobility and the distribution of agency in assemblages of connectivity
In between terms seems like a natural enough time to pause for a bit and refine my research focus for the next few years. I have been writing chapters and…
Anonymity in Mobile Messaging: Criminalization, Luxury, Permission, and Persistent Presentation of Self
Clearly a favorite subject of mine, I am returning yet again to the subject of surveillance and privacy in the digital and attempting, clumsily, to link that to development work…
My Digital Education Journey (aka, why you should apply for the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh)
The Story Map tells this story better than I can so I will rely on it for the narrative here. But if you have an interest in digital education, you…
Calling all UK Teachers: Evaluating Digimap and ICT in schools
As part of the work I am doing at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, I am evaluating Digimap, an online mapping service developed by…