Category: Design

Unpacking a (mostly) positive community listening experience

Evanston lakefront with sailboats in moonlight
~ Jeff Merrell ~ 4 Comments

Fair warning: This post gets into the weeds and is long-ish. Jump to the What now? section to get a tl;dr version. My head is swirling in reaction to all the actions that are focused on resisting what is going on around us. Protests, advocacy campaigns, boycotts, political organizing, providing aid and support for organizations … Continue reading Unpacking a (mostly) positive community listening experience

Pedagogy, design and aspiring to co-creation

~ Jeff Merrell ~ 4 Comments

[This is a thinking-out-loud piece. No answers, just exploring.] Dr. Shirin Vossoughi, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, shared her work on inclusive teaching at a recent faculty meeting for instructors in the Master's Program in Learning and Organizational Change. The session led me to … Continue reading Pedagogy, design and aspiring to co-creation