Comics, AI, and Equity: Who’s Writing the Story?

Today, my colleague Dave Rutledge and I did an activity with our undergraduate educational technology class. We wanted to briefly discuss some equity issues as well as give them a chance to try out the new OpenAI image generator–and hopefully learn something along the way. Content wise, we wanted to introduce them to the “digital […]

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Creating the Illusion of Learning?

The other day, I asked my students to write a song about what they learned that day. In 5 minutes. And yes, they could use AI. A few minutes later, I had a playlist of AI-generated songs—different styles and lyrics, but quite polished (see here and here, for example). We had fun. And now I […]

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ChatGPT Doesn’t Have a User’s Manual. Let’s Not Create One.

Note: This is the next post in the shared blogging experiment with Punya Mishra and Nicole Oster. This time we question what and how we should be teaching about generative AI. The core idea and first draft came from me, to which Punya and Nicole added revisions and edits. The final version emerged through a […]

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New Article: Design, Complexity, Indeterminacy, and Teachers

Thanks to Punya Mishra for the cover image! My dissertation research began in February 2020. I collaborated with four teachers at a rural school in Arizona as they strived to address problems of practice. Everything was going well–I was enjoying trying out creative activities and such. And, on March 4, 2020, this is what our […]

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Commit Your Own Crime

Committing Our Own Crime: COVID, Teachers Designing, Problem Finding, Personal Growth. (note the FOUR terms after the colon, Sarah. 😉) I am building on some of my dissertation research on teachers and design. I recently submitted an article on “seeing indeterminacy”–that designers work in spaces with many possible solutions, and recognizing these possibilities is key […]

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Design By Any Other Name…

I was having a Slack chat with Punya Mishra yesterday and we began discussing different phrases that include “design”. Both of us like to go a bit against the grain, thinking critically about common terms and phrases. For example, we once gave a conference presentation entitled “Why Design Thinking Sucks (in Education),” where we listed […]

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Design Listening

I am in the process of conceptualizing a research study on systems design and change, using the case of our efforts to promote technology infusion in teacher education at NMSU. My co-investigators and I are planning an initial session with diverse stakeholders in teacher education, similar to a design charrette. As of now, the goals […]

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Of Design, Agency, and Blenders
deconstructed blender

Through my blender-fixing experience, I gained a deeper understanding of what Dr. Clapp means by maker empowerment and how I could increase agency by tinkering with the things around me.

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Bing Crosby, Design, and Meaning Making

Note: This post was cross-posted on talkingaboutdesign.com. Thanks to Amanda Riske for her excellent editorial review! ​Over the past few weeks, I have revitalized my crush on the RadioLab podcast–specifically the currently airing series “Mixtape.” I was hooked from the first episode, Dakou, when host and producer Simon Adler starts the series describing the introduction of the Walkman to a […]

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