Below is a summary of some of my research, and work from my MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh:
Research
Presentation on master’s thesis, given at University of Edinburgh Digital Education Student Conference 2025: Exploring complex entanglements of artificial intelligence technologies and educational practice through a diffractive approach
Research
Master’s thesis completed at the University of Edinburgh: Cutting together-apart entangled conceptualisations of (machine) learning and ethics: assemblage of a ‘bricolage-pentimento’ artefact through an ethico-onto-epistem-ological approach
Research
A micro-ethnography on ds106 entitled Entangled Communities, with a specific focus on the communities surrounding ds106radio.
Research
Human-centred design and learning analytics: Measuring participation and expertise in a participatory design OER: literature review, research proposal, planning paper and presentation. Created during the Learning Analytics: Process and Theory course on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Blog
A “lifestream blog” (curating automated daily feeds from digital platforms via IFTTT, combined with critical commentary). Created during theEducation and Digital Culture course on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Web essay
A web essay contemplating how we might conceptualise ‘agency’ and ‘resistance’ within the context of the ‘datafication’ of education.
Algorithmic artefact
Visual artefact
A ‘virtual’ art exhibition entitled Dualisms, built using artsteps.
Playlist
A contribution to the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project, exploring the role of music in learning activity, in the form of a playlist and explanatory liner notes.
Michael Wolfindale 