Teaching
Generative AI and Its Impact
Cutting through the hype and fear excitement surrounding generative AI entails not than understanding what these tools can do and learning build with them. We also need to address fundamental questions of how these tools will impact how we think and create. Every technology, in fact every context, impacts our thinking, creativity, and flourishing and gen AI may prove to be especially disruptive, not only on what it creates but how it impacts people. I've taught gen AI classes at Technical University of Munich, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Olin College of Engineering. [ more ]
Ethics of Digitalization
Human experience is increasingly built upon digitalization and we are impacted by the choices societies makes about this process. Through the exploration of specific digitalization concerns such as COVID-era online learning, digital self determination, and digital identity in times of crisis, I invite students to learn about the principles of AI and tech ethics, their application to software and other technology projects, and applicable laws and policies. Based on these experiences, students create socially meaningful outputs such as culminated in outputs such as policy briefs, open educational resources, and technology oversight recommendations. [ more ]
Design and Human Computer Interaction
I have taught design and human computer interaction in a variety of contexts from full semester courses to focused workshops. These courses have ranged from design engineering in the context of making museum exhibits to covering the principles and techniques of HCI. I've taught these at Northeastern University, the Masters in Design Engineering program jointly offered by Brown University and RISD, and next will teach these topics at Olin in the Collaborative Design course.
Specific courses I've taught or will teach:
- Collaborative Design, Olin College of Engineering, Spring 2026.
- Products and Markets, Olin College of Engineering, Spring 2026.
- Designing with Emerging Technology: Generative AI, Olin College of Engineering, Fall 2025.
- Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization II, Brown University School of Engineering, Fall 2025.
- Designing with Emerging Technology: Generative AI, Rhode Island School of Design's Industrial Design Department, Spring 2025.
- Critical Thinking in the Time of Generative AI. School of Politics and Public Policy at Technical University of Munich, Fall 2024.
- Design Thinking Process. Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College, Summer 2018.
- Online Collaboration Tools. Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College, Summer 2018.
- Technology in the K12 Classroom. Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College, Winter 2018.
- Designing Learner Centered Instruction. Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, & Summer 2018.
- Human Computer Interaction. Northeastern University College of Computer & Information Science, Spring 2013.
- Introduction to Teaching Math and Science. Teaching Assistant for MIT Teacher Education Program, 2006.