Tag: design education
Teaching design, curriculum philosophy, classroom strategies, and what 25 years in the studio classroom actually looks like.
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Playing With Purpose: When the Floor Drops Out
Playing With Purpose Exercise 7: The hardest thing you survived isn’t just a memory — it’s creative material.…
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Playing With Purpose: You’re Not What They Called You
Playing With Purpose Exercise 6: List every creative label you carry — artist, non-artistic, logical, right-brained — and…
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Half the Jobs Haven’t Been Invented Yet
We’re training students for jobs that are disappearing while the jobs that will matter in ten years haven’t…
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Meet Me Where You Are
My entire teaching philosophy fits in one question: where are you, and how can I lead you to…
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The MySpace Classroom
I used MySpace to teach CSS before anyone called it social media literacy, and then I flipped it…
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Playing With Purpose: The Eye Sees First
Playing With Purpose Exercise 5: Notice where your eye actually goes before your brain tries to compose. The…
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She Had the Baby on Friday and Was Back in Class on Monday
A student had her baby on Friday and was back in class on Monday. After 25 years of…
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What It Looks Like When a Teacher Actually Sees You
A 1.2 GPA and an attitude problem walked into a military academy. The teachers who saw past both…
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My Students All Used the Same Font (And What That Taught Me About AI)
My students all used the same font. That tiny detail taught me more about AI, conformity, and voice…
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Playing With Purpose: Clear the Pipeline
Playing With Purpose Exercise 4: Clear the creative pipeline. Ten minutes, every idea in your head on paper.…