the belonging project

Tag: connection

  • the parting glass

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    Tomorrow morning, early, I return to Canada. My Bonnie flies over the ocean, lol. Sabbatical, fin. This Belonging and Place project has felt like a pipe dream, even as it unfolded. Who gets to spend weeks crossing the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, spring and fall both? For work? And be welcomed in, repeatedly… wined,…

  • findings 3b: how to do digital belonging in an era of weaponization

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    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…

  • findings 3a: how we talk about digital practices in education

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    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…