Education

Ethical Design: Evaluating Digital and IRL Experiences (and how one might support or hinder the other)

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During the Winter 2022 intercession, I took part in the Living Lab General Education Seminar which is described on its website as follows: The seminar is designed to make General Education more visible in our classrooms and courses. We will build an engaging environment for learning through exploration, implementation, and assessment of a variety of proven teaching practices using Oral … Read more

The Occasional Mentor: Kill Your Darlings

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THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR is a semi-regular column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Kill Your Darlings I am working on a project with a friend who … Read more

Downward Dot Voting

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My friend Austin Govella wrote today on using a kind of whole-body dot voting to teach teams to “Vote With Your Feet“. We are in a Liminal Thinking group on Facebook where he initially threw his ideas around. I was excited that he chose to add my comment about using negative dots to vote down … Read more

The Occasional Mentor: Career Advice — College Degrees and the Long, Post-Interview Wait

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I answer questions about Careers, Mentorship and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. Following are selected questions I answered in October. Are you going to be an unsuccessful person without a college degree? Answered October 13, 2017 It depends, of course, … Read more

The Best User Experience Education Programs in NYC

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I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. What are the best User Experience education programs based in New York? Are there any college accredited programs? Answered Apr 30 NYU has a degree in its Interactive … Read more

Wikipedia at IA Summit 2016

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As a Wikipedian who has been increasingly involved with editathons in New York City since completing my MLIS degree at Pratt Institute School of Information, I have been interested in creating bridges between the Wikipedia and IA communities. Thanks to a Wikimedia Foundation TPS grant, I was able to represent Wikipedia at the 2016 IA … Read more

Better Experience is the Payoff in Education

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In Jon Kolko’s article, “Why Investment in Design is the Only Way to ‘Win’ in Education” (UX Magazine, September 16, 2014), he discusses how the value proposition of educational technology should be better education, and that the design of that experience should not be simply a “forgivable attribute.” “…for us to collectively realize the benefits … Read more