{"id":4905,"date":"2023-07-18T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:21:41","slug":"in-conversation-with-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/in-conversation-with-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"In conversation with Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday (18 July on Mandela Day) I participated in a public conversation with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/michael-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gallagher<\/a> . Where, in his words,  we &#8220;ran the gammut on all things digital and education&#8221;  Our rough outline was supposed to cover  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Me and my background<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The South African context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A mliteracy project that supports social impact publishing  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post-digital privilege<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we we covered a lot of other things and covered loads of points around digital education in Southern Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael and I have an ambient friendship that goes back 20 years. Looked through my Twitter archive. And found <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weblearning\/status\/2386897854\" target=\"_blank\">this tweet<\/a>. Michael&#8217;s response is not recorded (probably wisely deleted his Twitter history). But my memory is of an incredibly affirming reply. It made my day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/media.ed.ac.uk\/media\/1_5je9qg2u\" target=\"_blank\">the video of our conversation <\/a> (Date: 18 July 2023 Duration: 58mins) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (18 July on Mandela Day) I participated in a public conversation with Michael Gallagher . Where, in his words, we &#8220;ran the gammut on all things digital and education&#8221; Our rough outline was supposed to cover But we we covered a lot of other things and covered loads of points around digital education in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/in-conversation-with-michael\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In conversation with Michael&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file","tag-edinburgh","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}