Design Forward
An emergent exploration of critical instructional design.
Design Forward
Portfolio Part: Tech as love…
DREAM TECH TOOL
Tech as love…
Step One
Imagine suddenly you have the power to design the technology tool for teaching of your dreams, unrestricted by cost, achievability, skills, the laws of physics, etc. What is it? What are its features? How does it work? Describe your technology tool in as much detail as possible.
I don’t know what this would look like, but a dream technology would be one that deepens and expands our capacity for love and meaningful connection. A technology that allows us to shed the stories of disintegration and disconnection that we tell ourselves. A technology that dissolves, in healthy ways, our sense of self and exposes the ways in which we are one and then provides space to leverage this understanding of deep connection to dismantle forms of oppression.
The image is from the artist Alex Grey. It is entitled “Universal Mind Lattice” (1981).
Step Two
Next, create some kind of visual representation of the tool, its interface, it being used, etc. Upload your image below.
Step Three
Now, based on the tool that you designed, consider: What instructional problem does it solve? What NEW problems might it present? Who does it include and who does it leave out? What does this tool tell us about you and your values? Consider these questions from the student perspective. What might their response to your dream tool be?
