Cheryl Brown

@cherylbrown.bsky.social

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Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Academic, Ōtautahi, Interested in all things Digital & Education. Esp digital equity & inclusion, youth, well-being and digital life.

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Cheryl Lee Brown is a South African–New Zealand education academic who has worked in education in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the use of technology in education, digital literacy and access to technology. .. more

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Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Bare legs = warm summer weather. Yay. Enjoy.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 11h

After years of trying to push kids Christmas wake ups later by even 5 mins - here I am at lunchtime enjoying a glass of bubbly 🥂and wondering when we will open presents 🎁 😂

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 🎄 eve to you too. I have enjoyed your Creative & fun outfits in the lead up to Xmas.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh good recs then. Might try for my dairy free Hubbie!

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh I love the Pooh bear set.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Hubby delighted. Too many for us to enjoy but I’ll find someone to share them with 💕

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve got to work on my “sous chef” and photo skills but had great fun making Besitos de Coco and Zimtsterne Xmas cookies.A nice complement of egg yolks and white for our very own girls. Thank you. #SecretSantaAoNZ. They don’t look great but are Yum! Great destress. 💕

Cheryl’s attempt at new Christmas cookies thanks to her SecretSanta. They might not look good but they are Yum!!

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Just as well there are still 7 days till Christmas 😂

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

But Melomakarona (Greece) sounds so delicious and uses different tastes of olive oil and orange with a honey spice syrup. Yumm. And Alfajores (Argentina) are definitely on the list. Who doesn’t love a bit of Dulce De Lethe.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Decisions decisions. What do I try first?? I love the sound of Besitos de Coco (Portugal) but I want to try my new cookie cutters. Maybe complemented with Zimtsterne (Germany) as then can use up egg whites AND try the star cookie cutters???

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Very nice!!

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Highlight of #SecretSantaAoNZ. That my gift “hit the right spot” esp for my Giftee with dietary considerations and brought them joy. Yippee.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

And just showing off my xmassy blingy earrings. Matches my glasses!

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

I know! I also like that (aside from the gingerbread house) they are not very big. Perfect bite (or two) sized! It’s a shame I have to work today as the kitchen is definitely calling. 😂

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

This is so perfect for me! I love baking at Christmas. Now I have extra inspiration. And although I have a few cookie cutter shapes in my draw I do not have stars, ⭐️ candy canes 🍭or angels 😇.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my 💕. My #SecretSantaAoNZ gifted me not just a Xmas baking set (and icing nozzles) but a folder of carefully curated cookie recipes from 25 countries! I can’t wait!! I can feel the stress disappearing already. Not to mention the festive bling which I shall wear to my afternoon workshop today.

My Secret Santa gift of cookie cutters, icing nozzles and a personally curated recipe book. And some fun blingy Xmas earrings.

Reposted by Cheryl Brown

Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 10d

Surrounded by CVE for years, I know this with certainty. No one should ever experience terrorism. Guns have no place in civil society besides tightly regulated hunting. No one should be targeted because of their faith. And the only long term solution to overcome hate is to love thy neighbour. 🧵1/2

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 11d

Back home and unpacked my #SecretSantaAoNZ 🎁 under the 🎄tree. Promise I didn’t shake but something definitely tinkled 🎶. Love that my Santa had exactly the same wrapping paper as I had from a couple of years back.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Woo hoo. What a huge thing. Time to become Dr Caffiend now??

Reposted by Joanna Tai, Cheryl Brown

Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 13d

We're running a very short survey to explore why academics are increasingly turning to GenAI to do things that they know/feel they should probably be doing themselves (e.g. write peer reviews, draft papers, data analysis etc.) - please share (or fill in!): redcap.helix.monash.edu/surveys/?s=L...

Academics' 'grey' uses of GenAI - a scoping study

redcap.helix.monash.edu

Reposted by Cheryl Brown

Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 14d

3️⃣ A ban blocks access. It does not address harm.
Online harm comes from platform design, governance failures, and adult misuse.
An isolated ban will not change platform behaviour.

Reposted by Cheryl Brown

🐶⛵️Capt. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 14d

Save the Children NZ have actually talked to children themselves about online safety - if the focus was genuinely on children’s safety we’d be elevating their voices and idea of solutions.

www.savethechildren.org.nz/assets/Files...

www.savethechildren.org.nz

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 14d

Not a case of “taking power back from Big Tech”. It’s caving into them by allowing them to be unaccountable. Inappropriate content is not going away.
We are just ignoring what’s right in front of us and leaving youth to deal with the mess at a later stage of life :-(
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Australia just banned kids from social media, will NZ like and subscribe?

As Australia’s social media ban for under 16s came into effect, New Zealand politicians promised similar law would be in place soon.

www.stuff.co.nz

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Maryna Kalashlinska talking about the grey zones of conflict. The weaponisation of information, education, AI and social media amongst other things.

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 16d

Legal perspective: Yurii Orzikh discussing legal frameworks for managing mis - dis - and missing information on Telegram during the Ukraine war. Drawing a theory I have never come across before. McGuire’s inoculation theory thinking about “pre-bunking” rather than “debunking”

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 16d

The work reason I’m away at the moment. A multidisciplinary, multinational exploration of the omissions, biases, political & ideological influences and misinformation of how knowledge is produced.

PowerPoint slide : Truth Matters conference. Part of the NEOLAIA network

Reposted by Cheryl Brown

The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 16d

Kia Ora koutou -
Taking a chance that you’ll see this.
We’re doing our annual Xmas fundraiser and we need around $8000 so if you could pop $ in, + share, that would help greatly

Jackie x

givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

The Aunties Christmas Appeal

Providing funds so that the Aunties whānau of women, and their kids and grandkids, have a great Xmas.

givealittle.co.nz

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 16d

And sorry Santa. Forgot to confirm parcel arrived and in safe keeping till my return. #SecretSantaAoNZ

Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 16d

I’m a southern hemisphere person. Never has a cold dark Christmas. But am enjoying the lights and festivities amidst the chilly weather. Sadly no snow #Örebro #Sweden #Christmaslights #SecretSantaAoNZ