I design for big-E Education and you could too

I have spent most of my time at Stanford exploring the intersection between design, technology and education, and many people have asked why. I have been giving slightly different reasons to each one, since I am both captivated by it as a student…

Silicon Classroom Trip: Day 4

We woke up and headed to Starbucks for a chat with an investor from Emerson Collective. Emerson Collective…

Silicon Classroom Day 6— Friday

Wow! This alternate spring break is almost over; what a quick long, adventurous, hilarious, busy, and tiring few days of visits.

Luckily, in comparison to the early sleep deprived mornings of the past few days friday offered some respite.

Silicon Classroom Trip — Day 4

Today, we visited various edtech companies in the San Francisco and Berkeley areas. We began with the San Francisco based startup Clever which provides a standardized platform that developers can use to create education apps. Many education app developers run into the…

The Silicon Classroom — Week 4

Can everyone say interactive, “Interactive!” Week four presented itself with a demonstration of…

The Silicon Classroom — Trip: Day 2

Today, we began our week of site visits. We got up early in the morning and drove to Aspire…

Week 8: Constructivism vs. Constructionism — not confusing at all….

We started off our class with some announcments including an upcoming check-in call with Rosemary at Third Street to get some feedback on our ideas.

The Silicon Classroom — Week 2

Today’s class followed up with the question “What is ed tech?” discussed last week. Guest speaker Karin Forssell, Director of the Learning Design and Technology (LDT) Masters’ Program at the GSE, came in to shed some light on the development of ed tech and general technology…

The Silicon Classroom — Trip: Day 7

Today was the last day of our ASB! We wrapped up by implementing our design project at Third Street Community Center and then celebrating with brunch.