EdTech
Educational Technology, referring to the use of both hardware and software designed to enhance teacher-led learning in classrooms and improve students’ education outcomes.
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Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory in Learning Design
As a learning experience designer and a longtime reader of Ursula K. Le Guin, I keep finding my way back to her essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” Le Guin is…
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Better Notifications in Online Learning and Ed Tech
Most teachers I work with are not asking for a better notification system. They are asking for fewer interruptions, and most have given up on getting them. The LMS pings, the email…
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Collaborative Inquiry: Teaching an Accelerated Undergrad Ed Tech Methods Course Through Podcasting
An accelerated 1-credit ed tech methods course at Dakota State University that used collaborative podcasting and essential questions to compress a 3-credit experience into a flexible, peer-driven asynchronous format for working adults.
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Video Games as Hooks in Project-Based Learning for At-Risk ELA Students
A teacher-built series of custom RPG video games that turned student gaming behavior into unit hooks for project-based ELA work in an alternative high school setting, with built-in support for group work,…
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Canvas Design Workshop in Edgemont, South Dakota
A one-day Canvas design workshop for rural South Dakota educators that paired pedagogical theory with hands-on prototyping and build time, with retrospective notes on what voluntary attendance and a single-session format meant…
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Life-Centered Design in E-Learning
Power-hungry AI applications are being folded into educational technology, and into the design process itself, faster than most of us can evaluate them. Wherever you land on that, two things are true:…
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Let’s Look At This Clearly: AI Hype in Ed Tech
A note from September 2026: I wrote this in fall 2024 and have left the argument as it stood then. The critique of hype still holds, but my view of where AI…
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Accessibility in VR, AR, and Video Games: A Resource List
Immersive and game-based learning keeps showing up in classrooms, and the accessibility questions it raises are different from the ones we are used to asking about web pages and video. Motion sickness,…
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Adapting EdTech and Training for Rural Communities
This piece has been folded into Low-Bandwidth Course Design, which now carries the rural framing alongside the technical guidance. The downloads from this page, including the slides, are there as well.
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Why Training Apps/Technology Rollouts Fail (Published on E-Learning Industry)
I’m excited to share my latest article, “Why Training Apps/Technology Rollouts Fail” now published on E-Learning Industry! In this piece, I delve into the common pitfalls organizations face when implementing new training…
