Calling all UK Teachers: Evaluating Digimap and ICT in schools
Michael GallagherAs 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…
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…
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…
SMS Environments for Learning: Flows and mobile learning
I was writing a bit in a previous post about possible SMS applications specifically geared towards formalized learning (like at the university level), how they might be structured, and what…
Ebook now available on Mobile Learning in the Humanities
Ebook on Mobile Learning This ebook on mobile learning field activities in the humanities is now available via Amazon. To go to the product page, please click the image below.…
Mobile Learning Field Activity Presentation: Habitus, Multimodality, Tools
mLearning : Habitus and Field Activities from Michael Gallagher I am putting together a presentation and related workbook/reference guide for a workshop I am conducting in Helsinki in May organized…
Representation vs. Interactional Context in ICT & Geographical Alignment
My geographical categorizations of related learning activity-using geography as alignment tool. Clockwise from top-left: Tanzania (Zanzibar), Long Island (New York), Seoul, Edinburgh. Context: Representation vs. Interactional There are several research…