Reflections
Google's new father-son ad will make you cringe
A journey from incredibly touching ad to horribly tone-deaf.
Charlie Gedeon
Reflections
She works on a park bench
Behaviours 40 years apart.
Learning
Working around Google's reign on education
The king of search cannot conquer critical thinking if instructors are willing to put in the effort.
Learning
The Value of After-Class Journals
How a tool intended to help my students became a gauge for my own performance
Learning
Learning how to structure a virtual class
Fancy online tools won't take you far without a solid foundation
Learning
The pitfalls of virtual workshops
How the added cognitive load of virtual workshopping tools impede learning
Algorithms
I watched a YouTube tutorial. Now what?
The value of YouTube tutorials for gathering information cannot be overstated, but whether or not it translates to real learning is another story.
Mental Models
Let go of anchoring bias to build more effective products
How a new app that's challenging existing video calling software reminded me of this potent cognitive bias
Algorithms
1,001 terms for improving AI won’t get us anywhere
An overview of the competing definitions for addressing AI’s challenges
Algorithms
How Netflix's rating system is hurting our documentaries
The Good, The Bad, and Nothing Else
UX
Adding a social layer across the web
Expanding social beyond social media.
UX
Keyword foraging: the key to better search tools
How this new term can help us understand the way people discover things online.