I am typing this out from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi reflecting on the past week spent with the good people of UN Habitat, specifically those associated with the CityRAP …
SDGs accelerating mobility and massification in (higher) education
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. A few caveats at the onset here. This reads a bit more like an academic piece which it largely is. It is drawn from …
Surfacing Local Practice, Placelessness, And Digital Education
This was originally posted at Panoply Digital. I try to let my ICT4D work feed into my academic work and vice versa and this is a case where my research …
Mobile Mentoring in Teacher Training: Ideas, Project, and Further Development
This post was originally published at Panoply Digital. I have been working a bit recently with colleagues in Finland, Nigeria, and Nepal on developing a more robust teacher training curriculum …
Students and schools: imports, exports, and some flattening of context
Reposting this here from the original post for Panoply Digital. Returning to a favorite (re: only) theme of mine, education, I was struck recently by the uptick in the number …
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 …
Research in Emergency Aftershock Response (REAR) Literature Review: Disaster Response, Gender, Resilience, and Appropriate Technology Use
I have been working the last six months or so on a NERC funded project at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh titled REAR …