Color Value

To understand color value, think how a color changes as either more and more white paint is added versus more and more black. In the digital realm, value change can only operate on a slider along a single side of a color...

Techniques for Innovation

Last Fall, during our inaugural launch of the CITE Fellows program, our Instructional Design Team was faced with a difficult challenge: how can we pair CITE faculty with Designers to work on innovative projects that have never been seen before? We came up with a few...

Mobile in the Classroom in Starship Troopers.

I love the tablets the students are using in this scene in Starship Troopers. It’s also interesting to see that the traditional arrangement of the classroom has remained and is only augmented by the devices that are clearly distractions to sanctioned learning,...

“Testing Day”

This Twilight Zone episode (“Testing Day”) is another example of dehumanized educational practices. Truth serum? Not to mention the fact that the smart kids are disposed of… but doesn’t this reflect our tendency towards eliminating those who...