As a visual designer and illustrator, I know that people respond to images faster than they read words. This means that visuals, and not words, will be the first introduction of your content to its intended audience. It can be easy and tempting to grab a stock visual to represent key messages, but if you […]
Decorating walls with colorful sticky notes full of good ideas is my idea of fun. And I’m not alone. After years conducting workshops, I can confirm that even the most hardened cynics love the creativity and collaboration of a well-facilitated brainstorm. And it’s easy to see why: coming up with ideas, scribbling on Post-its, bouncing […]
Intelligent assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant perform tiny miracles like hands-free Google searches, turning on the lights, checking our calendars and the weather, setting timers in the kitchen, and even making calls. Parents love that kids can play music and find information on their own without touching mom or dad’s phone. But until […]
At Intentional Futures we recently conducted several Intentional Learning sessions on the Intelligent Assistant market. So, as the developer conference season ends with WWDC and Apple’s announcement of the HomePod, we thought it was a good time to reflect on all that’s happened over the last few months in this incredibly fast-moving market. To recap, […]
Here’s a simple idea: great organizations enable each person to contribute as fully as possible. This seems inarguable, right? The reality is that this is rare and hard to do. Most organizations are set up to tap just a fraction of each person’s capabilities. Much of this stems from what I’ll call “unintentional design.” By […]
Intentional Futures recently published Instructional Designers in Higher Education , a report based on interviews and surveys of people involved in this new and interesting field. I asked one of our survey respondents, Rhiannon Pollard, to expand on her daily experience. How did she get there? What does she think is next for the evolving […]
I remember the first time I really struggled in a class. I was in my first semester of high school, in Mr. Wolff’s Algebra class. I’d always been a high-achieving kid, and was one of the lucky ones for whom many subjects came easily. But after the introduction of some new algebra concepts that I […]
This year, I was lucky enough to attend SxSW Edu. My experience was primarily focused around spending time with a group of organizations formally known as the Next Generation Courseware grantees. At Intentional Futures, we have the great privilege of working with these organizations, all of which are trying to make courseware better for students […]
I want to share an idea that I truly believe in: We should learn to love getting lost in the woods. I feel lucky because almost all of iF’s projects stretch us, teach us, improve us. That’s because we have the privilege of figuring out hard problems and creating something elegant and new to solve […]
I attended the 2016 SXSWEdu conference in Austin, Texas this last week. Being from Florida, I thought that Texas would be a welcoming place for me, and my district got a wild hare to send someone to this conference. However, there was a serious lack of representation by educators, like myself, who believe in traditions. […]
Intentional Futures recently attended TED 2016 in Vancouver where speakers captivated audiences with more than 70 talks. The theme of the conference was “Dreams,” which, as you might imagine, provided a blank canvas for speakers to share perspectives on how we’re reckoning with the all-too real challenges that impact the fields of education, technology, business […]
Media mogul Sumner Redstone famously said, “content is king.” Will that hold true in the virtual world? The short answer is, “yes.” With the release of an onslaught of virtual reality headsets around the corner, thousands of enthusiasts already exploring virtual worlds on prototype devices and millions of others poised to try it, what can […]