{"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<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Celebrating Manjeet Birk: 2025\u201326 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship Recipient\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>The Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST) is proud to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/manjeet-birk\/\">Manjeet Birk<\/a> on being named a recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2026\/future-learning-innovation-fellowship-recipients\/\">2025\u201326 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship<\/a> from Carleton 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<p>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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Birk&nbsp;is building off her experience of creating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mediaspace.carleton.ca\/media\/HOME+Trailer\/1_4tbrt9lt\"><em>Home<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;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":"<p>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&nbsp;is building off her experience of creating&nbsp;Home&nbsp;to provide students in her Critical Race Studies classes with the tools to write and create their own narratives [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}