by Ari Yares | Jun 20, 2016 | Design Thinking, Writings
I have been wondering for a while why I am fascinated with design. Some of it, I’m sure, I picked up while my wife was earning two degrees in communication design, but the fascination didn’t really hit full steam until well after she had finished. What was...
by Ari Yares | May 9, 2016 | School Leadership, School Psychology
The conversation with my wife went something like this: “What are you doing?” “Teaching myself Spanish.” “Seriously?” I don’t think that she was surprised that I wanted to learn Spanish; we’re both very committed to the...
by Ari Yares | Sep 1, 2016 | Design Thinking, Writings
Innovation has clearly become a buzzword in our society. Everything is innovative from consumer products like shampoo and toilet paper to business practices like purchasing and budgeting. As it so often does with terms and elements of pop culture that may be “jumping...
by Ari Yares | Mar 16, 2016 | Writings
Self confession. I might have gone on a rant in that last post about the Barbie Dreamhouse. Maybe. I recently listened to an episode of Adam Savage’s podcast that was discussing things seen at CES among other topics. Somehow the topic of internet connected water...
by Ari Yares | Apr 14, 2016 | 21st Century Learning
In cleaning up my digital life, I recently stumbled across my notes from when I was an instructor at Temple University’s College of Education in educational technology. Given that I last taught this course well over a decade ago, most of the tools that we...
