{"id":18847,"date":"2026-03-26T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=18847"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:50:29","slug":"celebrating-manjeet-birk-2025-26-future-learning-innovation-fellowship-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2026\/celebrating-manjeet-birk-2025-26-future-learning-innovation-fellowship-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Manjeet Birk: 2025\u201326 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Celebrating Manjeet Birk: 2025\u201326 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship Recipient\n <\/h1>\n \n \n \n\n

The Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST) is proud to celebrate Manjeet Birk<\/a> on being named a recipient of the 2025\u201326 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship<\/a> from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Teaching and Learning Services.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

This prestigious fellowship supports educators in advancing innovative teaching and learning practices, with a focus this year on immersive technologies and digital storytelling to enhance student engagement and success.
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Dr. Birk is building off her experience of creating Home<\/em><\/a> to provide students in her Critical Race Studies classes with the tools to write and create their own narratives using digital storytelling. This project breaks away from traditional virtual reality experiences, which often present damage-centred narratives, and instead prioritizes empathy and inclusivity, while challenging students to critically examine systemic inequities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This prestigious fellowship supports educators in advancing innovative teaching and learning practices, with a focus this year on immersive technologies and digital storytelling to enhance student engagement and success. Dr. Birk is building off her experience of creating Home to provide students in her Critical Race Studies classes with the tools to write and create their own narratives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18849,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions\/18849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}