This post was originally shared on TalkingAboutDesign.com Can designing systems be done piece-by-piece, or does it require revolutionary design? Let’s start with two parallel stories of automobiles. Story 1: Waymo In September 2012, Sergey Brin, a Google executive tasked with leading Google’s autonomous vehicle program, suggested autonomous cars would be available to the public in five years. […]
I recently published a piece of systems change in education with Steven Weiner and Punya Mishra. Read more here. Weiner, S., Warr, M., & Mishra, P. (2020). Fostering system-level perspective-taking when designing for change in educational systems. Tech Trends.
Two new publications in TechTrends: Creativity and Play with Sandra Russ and online critical dialogue​ Creativity and Play Shagun Singha and I interviewed creativity and play expert Dr. Sandra Russ for the latest in the Deep Play Research Group’s series on creative experts. We were inspired by her dedication to supporting children’s creativity through play. Singha, S., […]
Rah Rah Process Design! 3/7/2020 0 Comments Some thoughts about–and tools for–process design. Three cheers for process design! Rah rah process design! Process design supports all design!Rah rah process design! Process design scaffolds creativity!Rah rah process design! Process designs iterate! Read my Talking About Design post! ​Process design tools (for facilitation work and lesson planning): […]
Thanks to Claire Gilbert and others in the Office of Scholarship and Innovation at Arizona State University for producing new videos based on a framework I worked on last summer! ​Read More!
New publication in Educational Technology Research and Development! ​Read the full article here. Read an introduction by Punya Mishra here. Thanks to Punya Mishra for the image!
One winter morning, I walked into a classroom at Brigham Young University. Then I walked back out. Then I walked in again…was I in the right place? Was I in the right century? Instead of the familiar octagon-shaped tables that we usually crowded around for assessment class, there were a whole bunch of these all […]