Tag: EdTech
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Moving beyond raised hands with technology
It’s fascinating how certain classroom habits, like the classic “raise your hand if you know the answer,” continue to stick around even though we know their limitations. Despite my best efforts to create a more interactive, inclusive learning environment, I often catch myself falling back on this old routine. Why is it so hard to…
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UX education that feels like you're at work
One of the biggest changes I made to my UX course last year was asking students to submit their assignments directly in Figma by a set deadline. Over the last seven years of teaching, I’ve become increasingly aware of what impacts students’ engagement and how instructors can pull on different behavioral and cognitive levers to…
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Making “think twice” a tangible tool for learning
In a given piece of text, we can find some elements more interesting than others. Once core aspect of developing creativity and critical thinking is developing your sense of taste—or at the very least forming an awareness of what you’re attention naturally gravitates towards. From there, the next step is to analyze why you gravitated…
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The Magic of Students Giving Themselves Advice
Every student faces challenges that feel insurmountable—whether it’s a difficult project, a personal struggle, or a moment of self-doubt. But what if the key to solving these problems wasn’t about looking inward, but outward? What if by asking students to offer advice to ‘someone else,’ we could help them uncover the solutions they were seeking…
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Using technology to break the learning styles myth
I was always skeptical about media-based “learning styles” from the moment I learned about them. It seemed strange to me that we’re all happily enabling people to limit how they learn to only one style, when our brains are learning machines that can learn in a plethora of contexts. Dividing learning into Visual, Auditory, Read/Write,…