Jeremy Knox and I, both of the Centre for Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh are guest editing a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology titled Global technologies, Local Practices: …
Learning, Creativity, & the Purpose(s) of Education
Creativity: Assumptions and Materials This post all revolves around a few very debatable assumptions, so I am certainly open to being challenged on these. The explicit assumptions are as follows, …
Aesthetic literacy: emphasizing process over output in learning
Aesthetic literacy and learning in the open from Michael Gallagher on Vimeo. My colleague Pekka and I recorded a discussion we had the other day on ideas that came out …
Notes from my PhD: Upgrading as a Reflective Process
I have my upgrading session scheduled for Wednesday at the Institute of Education, University of London. By at I mean via Skype. I am fortunate to have such a group …
Making learning engagement maps: (less technologically deterministic) design methods for learning
(My London learning landscape; original image taken from Simon Narracott) I am once again employing ideas I gathered from Finnish colleagues and applying them to my own learning scenarios. …
Learning about learning through history: honoring the structure of the landscape around us
This will be one of my shortest posts ever as I am running out the door (more or less), but I stumbled across this quote and it floored me in …
Travel and emergence: learning through motion, intention, and serendipity
Travel and Emerging Learning: How Motion and Perspective Affect Understanding (ie, a mosaic being made) Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. …