by jspeedschwartz | Jan 29, 2021 | Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
In the early days of 2021, the internet was briefly consumed with the story of ‘Bean Dad,’ a father who’s 9-year-old daughter was trying to make baked beans but didn’t know how to use a can opener. Bean Dad saw this as a ‘teachable moment’, gave his daughter a...
by jspeedschwartz | Oct 27, 2020 | Creativity, Pedagogy Bytes
“Hulk Smash!” I thought to myself as I dominated critique after critique. It was April of 2020, penultimate critique sessions for Advanced Animation, and after 9 years of teaching digital arts, I found myself reverting to teaching behaviors I had worked hard to...