From Teacher Grading to Manager Feedback

How creating an supportive work environment for adult learners makes for better school

Generative, Personal, but not Artificial

Unpacking Apple’s language obsession around machine intelligence

Looking the other direction to learn more deeply

Seeing The Great Wave off Kanagawa print from right to left opened my eyes to the power of its message

Planting seeds as a teaching mindset

Learning from conservation biology to inspire learning experience design

We often forget the cast and crew

The star of the eclipse might have been the sun, but if you didn’t look around you would have missed the show.

Focus on how you work with AI, not what it answers

Forget the shortcuts and prompting tips and attain real creative satisfaction by focusing on the process

Navigating the Open Waters of an Early-Stage Product

Use product prototypes like tangible questions to quell your doubts

In my class, you surf alone and get feedback together

A note on the vibes of my 2024 UX class

23 things I learned in 2023 about how we communicate

Talking is exciting, infuriating, and wonderfully human. As an extrovert and a teacher, I think a lot about communication and how we can make it more enjoyable, intentional, and effective. Here’s a list of 23 observations I made during the tens of thousands of conversations I had in 2023.

Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products

If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said "100 brain calories per ChatGPT response", would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters,

How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?

In the storm of issues affecting education, finding the small wins could be the only way to keep the energy needed to progress.

Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age

The Challenges of Oversimplification in Modern Education and Technology