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…
Category: Education
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…
I Escaped
There could be many potential readings into this blog’s title, but it isn’t all that “Escape from Alcatraz”, although it kinda is… I have now left my position at Coventry and I feel free. Free to learn what excites me and with other like-minded folks. I’m sure that in a few months time I won’t…
Self-surveillance and memory
I often talk about the idea of surveillance and ‘dragnets’ and often I am talking about other people surveilling us. What I have been thinking about recently is our ability to self-surveil and interpret. Something that the digital affords is memory: transactions and files are stored in a binary computer readable format that can be…
#PrivacyUG Session One reflections
This week marked the first of three #privacyUG sessions. #privacyUG stands for “privacy underground” and it is an open and connected class around privacy. I called it underground because I wanted to add intrigue and fun into the sessions so that anyone physically attending would have to follow the cryptic instructions about how we can…
Hola Chile!
I think my most commonly used word on my travels to Chile was ‘vamos’ (let’s go in English). So what took me to Chile? Gemma Tombs and I travelled 28 hours to participate in the MUSE project kick-off meeting and it was fabulous. MUSE is an Erasmus+ cofunded project that aims to grant equal access…
#cclasses alpha test with UC Irvine
I wrote a little while back about working with Liz Greebhan at UC Irvine to deliver a #phonar class and this was of course a challenge not only for her negotiating a new way of teaching her class, but for me to communicate how Jonathan and I have done it before using available technologies and…
A note on learners’ digital footprints
So yesterday I was (unsurprisingly) talking about learners’ data, not just their learning data but all their data that has been harvested over years, before they enter a university classroom. Forget digital migrants and natives, just because students are now growing up with digital technologies (I did) it doesn’t mean that they have any more…
#phonar at UC Irvine
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and I am feeling super excited about how Phonar and Phonar Nation are moving forward. Phonar always used to thrive in the autumn (or the fall for any American readers) when the undergraduate class would run, but for the first time it was unhitched from this norm… Jonathan…
Blabbing with Game Changers
As part of the Game Changers programme, I was always keen to have a global conversation to echo what gamification in learning can afford. As a learner and teacher of open programmes, I believe that the connected network has so much to offer learners, disregarding whether they are formally known as teachers or students. We…