“It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about” Right now, as I am revising (for the first time since my A-levels) I am thinking about how I used to prepare for exams. Or, rather,…
Category: PhD
iRights Youth Juries OER Project!
I feel excited. I am going to be the principal lead on a project that will turn a research-led activity for youth into an Open Educational Resource and practice that will better enable educators, parents, carers and community leaders alike to engage youth in a conversation about their digital rights (iRights). What are the iRights…
Error 404 – Bathing for Internet Access
I am really not one to get excited about anything material. But when I learned about this charity bath bomb that is available in Lush stores until the end of the month, I was itching to part with my cash to get my hands on one. Lush has partnered with Access Now to help raise…
Discourses around privacy
In a seminar today we were asked where we would put ourselves on a scale from 0-10 where private is 0 and open is 10. Is this even the right scale to be talking about and through? I wonder whether we are using appropriate language to critically talk about what we mean by privacy in the post-digital age… Privacy…
Digital Division, a commentary on the rich and poor
I’ve recently read an article by the Daily Dot entitled “Privacy is creating a new digital divide between the rich and poor” and it feels problematic. It explores how only the educated and wealthy can afford to be private citizens in the digital. What does it mean to be wealthy in the post-digital age? What…
laptop:config
Until now, I have been parading around with my (comparatively heavy) 5-year-old Macbook Pro that is eccentrically covered in pop-culture stickers and has the webcam taped over. The very explicit act of covering my webcam is quite often a talking point and although I am not the only to do it amongst my colleagues, there…
DML Ignite
In the very likely event that I don’t make myself clear in my ignite at DML …….. Today I talked about the Inflammatory Bowel Disease community, in which there is a culmination of people from different backgrounds who live on a day-to-day basis with Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis. It’s not considered a ‘rare’ disease, but…
An Open PhD
My life as a PhD candidate has begun at Horizon CDT! I plan on making the development of my thesis and projects open – an ‘Open PhD’ if you will. This isn’t going to be a day-to-day account, but an outward facing space for my thoughts that I am open to discuss with others in…