Understanding by Design: Backward Planning in Instructional Design
The Understanding by Design framework for Instructional Design and Curriculum Development offers a planning process and structure to help guide curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Sometimes referred to as “backward planning” or “backward design” the two key ideas of Understanding by Design (UbD) are contained in the title: 1) focus on teaching and assessing for understanding and learning transfer, and 2) design curriculum “backward” from those ends.
2018 Limitless Leaders Conference for Girls (Lexington, KY, USA)
The world has enough mindless consumers. Let’s teach the next generation to be makers, inventors and entrepreneurs. Let’s teach them to code and inspire them to open their world-changing nonprofits, charities and startups. That’s why I love working with children and...
My Experience Teaching Children to Code at iD Tech Camp
It’s projected that there will be over 1,000,000 STEM jobs open by 2020 and teaching our next generation of coders (and hopefully inspiring them to pursue careers in this industry) is always rewarding work. In summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to teach at...
Goals with Soul 2018: My Ohio Workshop Review
So… I’ve had Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” stuck in my head the past few minutes (how’s THAT for a ’90s throwback?) and it took me a while to figure out that the featured image for this post is the reason why… “Oh,...How to Use Marketing Technology to Create Learning Campaigns
In this video tutorial, I’ll teach you how I leverage my marketing background to use common digital technologies and tools to create custom eLearning campaigns. Digital marketers are using common marketing technologies each day to create marketing campaigns....
Portfolio Roundup: A Collection of My Latest Learning Tools
Over the past several months, I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunities to create learning materials for a wide range of organizations. From state governments to entrepreneurs to nonprofits to coding camps, I’ve designed curriculum, facilitated...
My Predictions for the Future of Learning
Learning theory has evolved over the years and now incorporates digital technology to help improve learner retention and overcome the Forgetting Curve. Based on recent trends, here are my personal predictions for the future of...
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