Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

The Death of a Passport

On a side note, the trip to Mexico was my last using my passport. It has to be renewed before I can fly again. Ten years of trips, adventures, stamps, and memory upon memory.

In some ways, it is the end of youth as it bleeds into a more tempered adventure, a calmer understanding of the world, less chaos in my own heart.

You have served me well passport. I hope the next one will have as many chances to fill its pages. At least, the photograph is an improvement.

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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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