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So, I had my graduation ceremony on Tuesday, 9th October 2018. It was a great event – held at UTS in the Great Hall (which, to be honest, I’ve always thought is a little too small to be called the Great Hall), with the Occasional Address delivered by Stan Grant, who spoke about the challenges…

This was a draft based on my work as an LTA in FASS. The UTS Online Renovation Project in FASS A rising tide lifts all boats The title of this blog is a reference to the well known aphorism ‘a rising tide lifts all boats.’ Although it is usually deployed in an economic sense, it…

I recently presented a paper at a conference held at Deakin University in Melbourne. It was, and I was clear about it, a bit of a stretch for me. While I would have felt reasonably confident discussing civics and citizenship education, this conference had more of a bent towards ethnography and education. Still, in the…

I’ve been doing a lot of learning design work for one of the university’s journalism, media and communications faculties. I’m specifically not stating the name of the university for reasons of privacy; it’s not particularly relevant to what I am going to discuss. The reason I’ve started off like this is that I’ve come to…

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I’ve been on Twitter for more than 8 years now – I’m hardly a ‘power’ user, whatever that is, and I don’t post that often, to be honest. Rather, I see it more as a personalised or curated news source: I follow people or accounts that post things that I am interested in – lots of…

Originally posted here: http://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=1652 My research interests are closely aligned to the development of civics and citizenship education. Specifically, I am curious about the kinds of educational activities that encourage young people to become active or ‘justice-oriented’ citizens. Now that our marathon federal election is over I believe it is time for us to look more…

The chaos of the election campaign has morphed into the chaos of a potentially hung parliament. Bitter recriminations are flowing between shock-jocks and party members, and social media accounts are busy either being created or deleted. New outlets are in a frenzy reporting everything that’s not nailed down – even when it is becoming clear…

I’ve been reading danah boyd’s work It’s Complicated which is about the lives of teenagers in the digital world. It’s an excellent book, and casts a whole new light – for me, at least, on the way that young people engage with their communities via the mechanism of digital and social media. Of course, before I begin…

By now, those with even the mildest interest in politics will be aware that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister, will step down. Depending on whether you talk to people in the Leave or Remain camps, the stock market is either fine or it’s in…