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14:365 | Deep in the Weeds
The 2019 AECT Convention Call for Proposals deadline is creeping up on February 18th, and Designers for Learning participants will be submitting at least 4 (but maybe 6?) submissions related to our work. Today, I aggregated the session topics in a master Google Doc and tomorrow I’ll send it out to the roster of presenters…
68:365 | Smartphone Dependent
Reliance on smartphones for online access varies based on a range of factors, including educational attainment and income. According to the Pew Research Center, 39% of adults without a high school diploma are smartphone dependent (i.e., don’t use home broadband but own a smartphone) as compared to 10% of college graduates. Likewise, 31% of adults…
34:365 | Blind Spots
We all have blind spots (e.g., being unable to understand something or to see how important something is) when we are learning about something new. For instructional designers, blind spots come with the territory as we’re always learning something new. One of the biggest challenges is how do we start something new when we don’t know what we don’t…
