Initial Thoughts:

Hola, everyone. I'm John, a masters student in the Technology, Innovation and Education program at HGSE. Before school I was a software trainer for a small corporation in San Francisco. I trained people all over the world face to face and online. After school, I envision myself continuing that career path.

I can tell you that all my curricula and tutorials were designed with every user in mind. Yeah, right. That stuff was designed with one person in mind. Me. I had no idea what I was doing when designing my curriculum!

So, I'm ecstatic to be in this class to learn more about cognitive neuroscience and how those studies can positively influence how we design our education going forward. For example, after doing our first reading, just thinking about 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' processing, already changed my view of cognition. I can just picture, like myself, struggling to put together many individual facts into a common thread. Ultimately, I would love to learn more on making our education software more flexible, and also to learn more about myself.

While at HGSE, I'm learning more about educational software design, e-learning and adult and teen development.

If you've read this far and are wondering why I'm dressed as a cowboy, yes it's a joke!