As part of my efforts to keep mildly sane through lockdown, I have been actively catching up with friends. From the first interaction I had with my friend Alex, I knew he was a bit of a talker – but five years later I didn’t expect that I would have regular 60 min+ chats with…
Category: Education
Safer Internet Day 2018
February 6th 2018 was Safer Internet Day, an international landmark event on the Internet safety calendar. This year its theme was “create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you.” Since receiving the Internet Society’s 25U25 award last year, I felt really motivated to get other young people thinking about the Internet and…
Talking digital footprints with youth
Since being awarded as one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 I have been quite busy with different requests and such like. I was invited to speak to some young people at a primary school about digital footprints and online safety. Talking about the Internet and its challenges is not something I am used…
My first hypothes.is experience
While I have been aware of hypothes.is and its potential in education for crowd-sourcing global notes on an online document, I hadn’t had the opportunity to participate in a ‘live’ note taking session before. And this week I had my first experience! Spoiler alert: I Ioved it. I felt quite nervous and vulnerable since I…
Risk Emotions in Uncertain Times
I have been thinking about Maha’s emotive post [1] for a couple of days now. For my PhD I have been doing a lot of reading recently around risk (as a requisite of trust) and how it often manifests irrationally. As someone who is quintessentially white privilege, it should be easy for me to say…
Towards Openness at OER17
If Christian thought that his reflections of Towards Openness following OER17 were “late” then I don’t know how late this is at all. Anyway, let’s just say that it has been a few weeks since Christian Friedrich, Markus Deimann and I facilitated a workshop at OER17 entitled Towards Openness: Safety in Open Online Learning. Towards…
#PrivacyUG Presentation at #OER17 Conference
Last Wednesday I presented #PrivacyUG at #OER17 conference. I have told a lot of people about the class in one-to-one conversations but I hadn’t spoken publicly until this conference. The class was held almost a year ago and since then I have been riding a steep learning curve around surveillance technologies and how I think…
OER17 some thoughts
I wrote a heck of a lot of thoughts into my notepad of what I wanted to write about, but I think the read time could amount to ~10 hours… So here’s a snapshot of thoughts right now. They aren’t complete by any stretch, but I have to get something down now before a new…
“The Intenet on our Own Terms” report launch at the House of Lords
Yesterday I went to the report launch for the 5Rights (previously iRights) Youth Juries entitled “The Internet on Our Own Terms: How Children and Young People Deliberated About Their Digital Rights.” I won’t discuss what the report outlines because you should definitely take a look at what the young people had to say about their…
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…