Category: Blog

18/05/2019

Let’s talk about phones

I’ve just upgraded my phone, so thoughts about phones have been in my mind, on a personal level as well as the research. I’ve had a fair few phones over the years but this article isn’t about my historic ownership of phones so I won’t go into the awesome BT fold up phones of the mid nineties (though they were...

Blog

06/05/2019

Radical Candor, Radical Constructivism

In a professional environment it’s difficult to speak out and say what you really think. Often you might wait until bursting point and then everything comes out under the cloud of a bad temper ‘emotional outburst’. You get a reputation for having tantrums, and anything you’ve said gets very likely dismissed without a second thought. I speak from personal experience,...

Blog/Ideas/Learning & Teaching

09/03/2019

Meme Me

Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts, and are cut up snippets.

Blog/Ideas/Images/Social Media

01/01/2019

How to navigate your digital life

“How to navigate your digital life, or, how to avoid death by a thousand digital cuts.” Recent events have made me consider deeply how digital life affects each of us and how we navigate these unknown terrains, attempt to manage our interactions, needs and expectations, and how others in our networks manage their own lives that intertwine with ours. How...

Blog/Featured/Social Media

23/12/2018

A pedagogical landscape of information

I wrote a paper a while back which in part discussed Google Lens. Google Lens will soon become standard Android camera technology, permitting the smart retrieval of knowledge content associated with stuff we view through our smartphone camera. This is a huge innovation, only currently being conceptualised for commercial purposes. But placing that functionality in a generic open access knowledge...

Blog/Featured/PhD

22/11/2018

Depressed teachers, neoliberal commodification and coffee

I attended a lively symposium yesterday with speakers from various universities and nationalities: Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus, Malta, Canada, UK. The title was “Rethinking Teaching” and essentially was about educational philosophy, theory and practice. The usual suspects featured: commodification, standardisation, KPIs, uniformity, absence of pluralism, neoliberal top down marketisation, efficiency, and more unusually and deeply, the being of teaching. We met...

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24/05/2018

The Gibson SJ200 has left the building

I’m kind of sad to report I sold the Gibson SJ200. I thought it would be a lifetime purchase but in all honesty I never really bonded with this guitar. Beautiful, rich toned and lovely to play. And yet. It had a cold dark heart at its centre and never felt creative or inspiring. I’m not sure why but guitars...

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01/09/2015

Moving to Malta

I moved to Malta. This is overall an incredible thing and either really stupid or utterly brilliant. I do love the Rock and all it has: history, ancient culture, sun, unpretentious good life, relaxedness. Downsides, yes there a re a few. Traffic is very bad at rush hour, buses can be very full, and it’s a lazy lifestyle so I...

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RT @canvas_51: cellular earth #generativeart #creativecoding https://t.co/TQU76kTq6I
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No such luck for #UK #bank customers. The assumed-guilty model in T&Cs is to simply turn off your account without adequate warning, or any attempt to establish legitimate reason. You just need to accept the guilty verdict and pick up the pieces. #NatWest https://t.co/zkWai7PqYO
RT @ICRC: Since the escalation of the conflict in #Ukraine in February 2022: 🚨 +15 million people need humanitarian assistance 🚨 +8 million people have been internally displaced 🚨 +6 million people have become refugees (Figures from the UN)
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RT @RuthArnold: What a time for this article. I am all for universities telling stories better to society and government - benefit, impact, the hope of knowledge, opportunity and learning. But they also champion understanding and tolerance and, if it makes you a target, it’s a badge of honour. https://t.co/ouW80hAo2B
RT @thenextweb: Machine learning has an alarming threat: undetectable backdoors https://t.co/6OdHQRwAEl https://t.co/8jWnj5i2ci
Interesting thread here. https://t.co/sFH2586Mb5

Category: Blog

Let’s talk about phones

Radical Candor, Radical Constructivism

Meme Me

Right Click, Refresh

How to navigate your digital life

The Twittersphere Highway

A pedagogical landscape of information

Depressed teachers, neoliberal commodification and coffee

The Gibson SJ200 has left the building

Moving to Malta