Rural Communities
Projects or initiatives specifically designed for or implemented in less populated, often geographically isolated areas.
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An Ethos With a Changelog
Part 7 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. Nobody asks a vendor what they believe about teaching. Procurement asks about seat cost, data handling, integration with the student information…
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Low-Bandwidth Course Design
When I work with rural districts across the Great Plains, the same frustration comes up in different words: the course is built, the content is good, and a good share of the…
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Homegrown Learning Book (Preview)
Working as a learning designer across the Great Plains, I’ve found that conventional instructional design approaches often wither when they’re transplanted into rural and otherwise unusual contexts. That’s what started Homegrown Learning:…
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Co-Design: Building Learning Experiences Together
This article has moved into Homegrown Learning. The story of the PLC sessions and what they taught me about designing with people rather than for them now opens the Design phase of…
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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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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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Weekly Socratic Seminars for Grades 7-12 in Rural South Dakota
A first-year teaching experiment in rural South Dakota that built weekly Socratic seminars into a scaffolded discussion system across grades 7-12, with the supporting materials later shared through a short-lived companion website.
