Designing for a new tomorrow by uniting humanity with technology

A project led by the Ph.D. candidate Elliot Hu-Au of Teachers College, CU. This study explores the

This project, led by Dennis Morgan of Harlem CoLab, is meant to encourage students to become activists through learning the story of Diane Nash

What does a successful history education look like? Is it when a student knows every date and time to the exact millisecond a battle or event took place? Maybe it’s when a learner can explain why a given society had a particular economic system in place. Regardless of which approach a teacher takes, one theme remains consistent: that learning history is stereotyped as boring (Tew 2014). While thematic approaches to history give students an idea as to what people at the time were thinking, it’s still taking a broader and rather impersonal approach to history education. That is where AI comes in. AI has the potential to illustrate the stories that make up humanities collective history and bring to life these events. Either by embodying long-dead individuals whose stories need to be told, or by allowing individuals to see on a large scale what happens when civilizations rise and fall—AI gives a learner a better and ultimately more wellrounded understanding of this otherwise tiresome subject. Even the very processes in which AI conveys information can illustrate how different components of societies can work together to create a collective theme or knowledge that embodies their civilization.

Death. It surrounds us, permeates everything we do in our lives in some way or another. Despite our propensity to avoid the topic, COVID-19 has shown how mortal we truly are. Globally, 6.2 million people have passed due to this virus. This has left, in the US alone, thousands of children grieving the loss of a close family member or primary caregiver (Wroth 2021). Grief is not simple. It takes time to fully experience and grow from a loss of a loved one. As such, this course is designed with that in mind—helping children, through the media selected, help them feel better about having to say goodbye to someone they held so dear. This curriculum will examine the unique experience of an elementary-school aged child grieving (particularly between the ages of 7-10), as well as research within the field up to this point, before discussing the specific artifacts this course proposes be used as a means of aiding children through this turbulent emotional time.

This was my final project for the Development of XR Games. I wanted to simulate the experience of working in an oppressive warehouse environment to help show people what millions of workers go through every day.

In this project, my project partner (Moira Mccavana) and I explored

A card game led by Joey Lee of Teacher Colleges Games Research Lab

A research study on the efficacy of games as learning tools for diverse audiences.