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Getting ready to teach our Georgetown Foundations seminar
Tomorrow I start teaching a class. It’s one I’ve taught before, but now with some major changes, and I haven’t ever blogged about it, so I thought I could share it now.
It’s for Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) program, and is called the Integrated Introduction to Learning, Design, and Technology seminar, which we usually just refer to as Foundations. The class is the official introduction to the program for new students. Foundations introduces them to the faculty and staff who lead it, each of whom presents on their relevant work. The seminar also brings up the major topics we study, to the details of how LDT works, and to Georgetown as well.
There’s still more going on. LDT has a small cohort, so we really want to help the students get to know each other, to socialize, to connect. To that end we emphasize belonging, both as a practical matter as well as scholarly topic. It’s also the first grad school experience for most, so we have all kinds of things we’d like them to learn, from bureaucracy to reading hard scholarly literature. And it’s about design thinking, so they get to work together on a design project from the first day… and present it on Friday.
I have several jobs in Foundations. I have been redesigning it for a couple of years now. I organize the…
