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Improving Performance: Triage in the Apple Store

August 23, 2014 by Susan Detrie

Organizations look to training to address performance issues by employees, but often the solution to a performance problem is more complex. Having been charged with analyzing an organizational performance problem for a graduate class at Indiana University, Bloomington, it was timed perfectly with the crash of the hard drive on my Apple laptop computer. While sitting in the local Apple Retail Store, I started to notice something extraordinary in the way my emergency was addressed. In the past, these issues […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: analysis, Apple, educational technology, HPT, human performance improvement, ISPI Model, performance, technology, training

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Learning from the Interactive Game: Agent Based Learning

April 16, 2014 by Susan Detrie

Agent Based Learning Building a constructivist learning game and walking tour. One of the most difficult things to impart to students, as well as the general public is the meaningfulness, value and significance of contemporary and modern art, here defined as art since World War II. In many respects, the beautiful presentation of paintings in museums has contributed to people’s lack of understanding just as much as the presentations have contributed to establishing an artists place in art history. By […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: analysis, Annette Lemieux, art tour, art walk, Bloom, interactive game, Laurie Simmons, learning, Robert Gober, Robert Longo, Sherrie Levine, synthesis, technology

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To Code Or Not To Code

September 2, 2012 by Susan Detrie

It was the columnist Thomas Friedman, at the New York Times, who suggested that in the future, students in higher education contexts double major in a field of choice and in computer science. Continuing the theme of new literacy skills, it struck me that computer science was a potential addition to the list of skills that are considered necessary for 21st century citizens. Today, students that haven’t hit middle school can be prepared to program by working with programming languages […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: computers, education, programming, technology

Geek Mythologies: Women in Computing

August 30, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Having started working on my masters final project, which was on the subject of women and computing, I began to realize that like the Greek mythologies of yore, the modern world has it own myths, especially surrounding geeks, technology and who is categorized as computer literate. I had read about a scholar in Norway, Hilde Corneliussen, who peaked my interest when she published a book in 2012 called “Gender-Technology Relations: Exploring Stability and Change”. It contained some excellent examples of […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, history, stereotypes, technology, women in tech

Learning and Technology

August 29, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Living in the exploding and constantly changing digital age, it is not only students who face the task of learning with technology. Somewhere, someone is learning with technology at age 90, and at age 4. One of the most interesting projects I have ever undertaken was designing a seminar course with a constructivist approach, and then looking for ways in which to integrate technology in a meaningful way. You can’t just add technology into learning environments for the purpose of […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, technology, visual literacy

Media Literacy

January 4, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Having started in video and digital graphics when it was an obscure field, with few available courses, it has been an interesting life experience to see video and digital image-making go mainstream, and grow to the extent that the average person may discuss the latest special effects in a film with knowledge or use an Adobe product for a school project or a business presentation. While many in the field express concern over everyone thinking they know all about digital […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, Henry Jenkins, media literacy, technology

SUSAN DETRIE Ed.S.

Instructional Design and Digital Media.

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