Green Apple Issue 3 | Page 11

Music, another language, brought me to teaching English as Second Language in 2012. Since then, I’ve been designing, building and delivering blended and online Academic English courses. An unusual mix of a hunger for personal connection and a passion for the power of technology (often thought of as mutually exclusive) have led me to explore with great curiosity the tensions between physical distance and psychological space. Learning is an experience, not an outcome and the quality of this journey obsesses me, having formalised this in a User Experience Design course earlier in 2020, just as COVID was breaking down fixed views of what teaching is and what it possibly could be. We are all now learning designers, teetering on the edge of the most creative space that has ever existed in the history of the profession.

Jonathon Brown

SIBT