Tag: #blogging4life
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findings 3b: how to do digital belonging in an era of weaponization
This project emerged happenstance from the confluence of a lucky trip to Scotland and my own disillusionment. As I’ve gone on about in previous posts, in 2023, I was worn thin on AI hype, grieving the capture and enclosure of my field by forces far removed from the participatory educational ideals I’d originally valued in…
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findings 3a: how we talk about digital practices in education
The question of what it means to be a person who works in digital education has been one I’ve struggled with, increasingly, over the past decade. I stumbled into this field in the ’90s, when the university where I was doing my M.Ed transitioned their Open Learning office and their distance programs from teleconference and…
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findings 2: Dùthchas – belonging as worldview
Dùthchas: Belonging as ‘Home’This past summer, preparing to delve into this sabbatical project, I read Scottish social histories and scoured my mother’s PEI Scots history bookshelf, trying to wrap my mind around the sociocultural and socioeconomic shifts that rang the knell for the old Gaelic order of the Highland clan system. I was trying to…
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findings, part the first: the sociomaterial intersections of belonging
The photo memories feature on Facebook – and yes, I should ditch Meta…and no, I haven’t yet – reminded me this past weekend that it’s been two years since I first landed at the University of Highlands and Islands, for #OER23. My first time seeing much of Inverness in daylight. Everything was April sunshine and…