-
Tinkering with Inequity in Emerging Tech: Week One
The d.school was bustling last week with the launch of the Fall academic quarter, and it felt good to get back to it! This quarter I’m teaching an IntroSem, Tinkering with Inequity in Emerging Tech, for Stanford undergrads. A short snippet on the class: “Throughout history, innovations in science and technology, while bold and visionary, have often resulted in…
-
Human Bias Is Everywhere in Tech. To Fix It We Need to Reshape Computer Science Education.
I was so excited to publish this piece in EdSurge last month with my colleague Laura McBain. Reposting! As we transition into the new year reckoning with a violent insurrection organized on social media, the spread of disinformation about a deadly pandemic and breakdowns in distance learning, it would be remiss of us not to…
-
Designing for Digital Agency at the Stanford d.school
Over the last few months I’ve been working at the Stanford d.school in their K12 Lab on a special project around emerging tech and equity. Re-posting a blogpost written in collaboration with stellar colleagues Laura McBain, Lisa Kay Solomon, Carissa Carter and Megan Stariha. Technology is power. It can enable you to share an…
Ariam's ARCADE 