This summer, I’ve been involved in a hackathon organized by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Tartu with three areas of focus (Medicine and Health, Education and the Future of Work, Finance and Economics). For those that do not frequent a hackathon, it is often a realm where developers (and sometimes educators) connect…
This post was written by Nenad Radakovic and Ian O’Byrne. Portions of this come from our publication titled Toward Transdisciplinarity: Constructing Meaning Where Disciplines Intersect, Combine, and Shift. In our educational spaces, we often break our areas of expertise down into specific subject matters. We educate, train, and certify classroom teachers in terms of grade…
Last week we had our first meeting of the BARWE 2021 Summer Series. We were joined by representatives from Black Lives Matter at School. In this post, I’ll identify two of my lessons learned from this first session that I’ll try to work into my everyday interactions with culturally diverse communities and individuals. In these…