First of all, what the hell happened with that blog post. I normally get a couple of hundred reads of a post in the first week, if I am lucky. The last post hit 1000 sometime around midweek, and whilst tailing off, it is still going. I guess the post had resonance. But the problem…
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The Darker side of Digital
Amid the noise of Brexit and our national obsession with the soap opera that is Westminster, BBC news last night reported a story about poverty in the UK. I expect that as both big parties play their Brexit games next week that story will will slip further and further away from the news cycle, just…
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Which tale is your EdTech?
If you do read what I write here, then you probably realise that conversations are big part of what I do, and where I get my ideas from. Amber Thomas gifted me another this week. We were discussing an edtech and she said “it’s like stone soup”. Stone Soup The story of the stone soup…
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Toward digital praxis: just thinking out loud
Introduction First of all this is just open thinking – I am looking for feedback. I started thinking in this direction when I started working with Donna Lanclos back in 2014. We co-authored a blog post where Donna wrote: In a post-digital academy, where presence may be seen as having value, understanding how an online…
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Satellite tagging saving wildlife
There are times when my role in education technology and my personal life as a conservationist and Environmental Science graduate feel poles apart. But occasionally I am reminded how the affordances of technology impact across so many aspects of our lives, and how the advances being made can benefit things that we are passionate about,…
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Presence, Digital, Well-Being, People
I have written recently about two areas of thinking around Digital Environments – How lecturers (and others) exist in relation to other people in learning spaces, how they are present; and also some of the technology approaches we are taking with regards to building new environments, such as analytics and adaptive algorithms, the application of…
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Vulnerability in the Curriculum: No one cares about your soup!
Digital Pedagogy Lab : Prince Edward Island : Fourth Reflections Vulnerability comes from the latin vulnerare, “to wound” and is defined as “exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally” I’ve been discussing vulnerability as a part of authenticity for a while now and thinking about it in my own…
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Today I am 50: I am birder
[caption id="attachment_8094" align="alignright" width="136"] “The Observer’s Book of Birds”[/caption] Today I am 50 years old. I am going birdwatching. I started birding (a term we use for birdwatching) in the late 70’s and I have always been an aspiring amateur naturalist. So what’s that got to do with this blog? My birding kit in the…
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Something, not somewhere, and increasingly somewhen
This is a co written post with Donna Lanclos A podcast of me and Donna arguing discussing this post refereed hosted by James Clay is available over on James’ Blog “Work is something you do, not somewhere you go!” Obviously this is not true for many people – from chefs to hospital staff, work is…
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Another end of year ed-tech predictions post ;-)
Well here we are at the end of the year, if you’re anything like me then it is indeed the season to be jolly. However, if you’re one of the many thought-leaders out there on the internet then you’ve probably been looking forward to this point in the year for a while and have been…
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