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Inoculating Organizations Against Misalignment
I find that organizational misalignment is a diagnostic mystery I cannot resist. Fortunately, I also have a hard time walking away from problems I know I could solve through learner experience design. I want to hear why people are frustrated, what operations are working against their own intent, and most importantly, what assumptions led to…
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To Comfort or Confound: That is the Question
I used to think about learning as only an act positioning oneself in the vulnerability of engaging with what they may not understand. I am beginning to reconsider — to recognize the firmer stuff: resourcefulness, agency, resilience. Consequently, I am leaning more and more into designing experiences that ensure learners feel safe enough to be…
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Discipled by Cons-training
I don’t just survive constraints. I need them. They empower me to do not just hard things but big things. Example: for a graduate course challenging me to work within a constraint of my own choosing, I decided to rebuild a teacher training I had originally authored in D2L two years earlier — at the…
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My Alive Horizon
When communication fails, people get hurt. When a future newborn’s parents don’t understand how vaccines work, they swallow propaganda selling disinformation at a handsome profit and conclude they should engineer controlled exposure to build immunity — the irony flying overhead, unnoted. When law enforcement officers don’t recognize autism, disability can become culpability at the speed…
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Wait, I Know This One
My central takeaway from the MSU MALXD program is not what I expected it to be. I came in believing I was going to learn how to become a leader in instructional design. I am leaving with the understanding that I have been actively inhabiting this work for a long, long time — and inhibiting…
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The Stone is Inclusivity
Yes, actually–a magic bullet does exist; no, sorry–it isn’t what they’re trying to sell you. I built this microlearning module that teaches healthcare staff to document what patients do — not what staff think it means. One Small Bird The research problem I started with was quite a small bird: autistic patients being mislabeled as…
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Silent Steps: what ADHD learners don’t get to hear
When I set about trying to zero in with absolute precision on what I, as a learner with ADHD, have been unable to access–and have witnessed my own children with ADHD being likewise unable to access–my discovery amused me. Because as I zoomed in and in and in–bringing into crisp focus the–as I said, precise–deficit,…
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Create a To-Do List for Kids with Google Sheets
Turn a Google Sheet into an interactive tracker to help kids accomplish everything from daily chores to long-term school projects independently.