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I got Jezz Bezos and Larry Smarr to have dinner

I got Jezz Bezos and Larry Smarr to have dinner

In my imaginary, I booked a table at a restaurant in Seattle. Canlis? Maybe. I invited Jeff and Larry to a meal. To talk about the coming together of the kinds of things they have been talking about.  I did this for an epistolary podcast. LINK I speak to a former student, nay I am badgering a former student (as you do) to collaborate with me. Are not all our students agents in an ecology of the…

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How do you design a course?

How do you design a course?

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Is it okay to ostracize the low achievers?

reate wonderful human beings?

In a recent podcast episode I mention this phrase. That I said this in 2003. When I landed in Australia. One meaning of this phrase takes you down the path that you should not treat poorly performing students any different from the way you treat the high achievers. Okay we leave that for now. That is the world we have. That is the world we have accepted. But I do not accept the world we have.…

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The Learner Centered Project 2003-2007

This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education.

In my first four years in Australia I worked as the Program Director of an undergraduate Industrial Design Program. This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education. The project probably never ended. It is still to be seen. I am still doing this project. The names have changed. It has…

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To go Back or to go Forward? That is the question

To go Back or to go Forward? That is the question

There was this storm last night. I get hay fever. And that is the end of the night. So ABC 774 all night and I was there before @SammyJ came in to work. Unsplash Link So, I have been thinking. Let us treat this as a thought experiment. The Covid Pivot – a full two years of education online means something. Historically – what it means is that I ought to return the grant money I received for…

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The 8 Parts of the PhD

The 8 Parts of the PhD

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New Pedagogies

Yesterday as I walked, I listened to an episode on the Coconut Thinking podcast. There was a lot to like in that episode. Then I had to research the speaker, the place where he worked, who was Michaal Fullan, what is all this? How do they know so much? Why are they so optimistic? Yes – you could be blown away too What we do We work alongside educators to change the role of teachers to that of…

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Design is what designers do #1

Design is what designers do #1

Hey girl, When I graduated from Mechanical Engineering I opted to stay in India. Most of the others in my batch? Headed off to the US. In India I then did postgrad at NID. I elected to stay in India and ended up in Delhi, starting my own studio. My whole cohort/ group of friends? They headed off to the US. 5 years after graduation, just like Vineet and Abhishek, I too did a 6 month stint at…

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