Ignite-style talk for the 2014 Teaching Information Architecture workshop at the IA Summit. http://reframe-ia.org/

1. TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
KEITH INSTONE
Teaching IA = Connections
HCI, IxD, IS, VD, UX, ...

2. Slide 2 Keith Instone: Closing the Research-Practice Gap
What I talked about here last year
REFRAMING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 - BALTIMORE

3. Slide 3 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
One of my key points last year
REFRAMING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 - BALTIMORE

4. Slide 4 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
The Process of Reframing IA Education
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
Writing papers
+ Talking (amongst ourselves)
+ NOTHING ELSE
= FAIL

5. Slide 5 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
The Process of Reframing IA Education
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
Realistic goal:
Who we should talk with after
today
Stretch goal: who is in the room with
us next time

6. Slide 6 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Who is this? Why should we talk with him?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

7. Slide 7 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Nathan Shedroff
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
● Nathan Shedroff
● Profiled at Argus Center for Information
Architecture, 2000 (& worked with RSW)
● Author, Experience Design
● “What it means to be strategic”, UXSTRAT
● ….... (too many more to mention) ….....
● AIGA Director
● Chair, MBA in Design Strategy Program, CCA
● Open-Source Curricula

8. Slide 8 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
AIGA, Visual Design, Architecture
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) goals:
facilitate communication among design educators
create, foster and promote dialogue;
produce design education events such as conferences and competitions
present current research and teaching methods
establish standards for design education
differentiate between design's various subdisciplines
raise the level of design-driven thinking in schools across the country
communicate the value of design education to the larger profession

9. Slide 9 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Who is this? Why should we talk with him?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

10. Slide 10 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
David Malouf
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
● David Malouf
● Former Professor of Interaction Design,
SCAD Industrial Design Department
● Former Sr. Interaction design for Motorola
Enterprise Mobility
● IxDA Education Summit co-chair

11. Slide 11 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
IxDA Education Summit
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

12. Slide 12 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Who is this? Why should we talk with her?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

13. Slide 13 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Elizabeth Churchill
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
● Elizabeth Churchill
● Director of HCI at eBay Research Labs
● Vice President of ACM SIGCHI
● Co-author of “Teaching and Learning Human-
Computer Interaction”, interactions, Mar-Apr
2013
● Co-organizer of “Developing a Living HCI
Curriculum to Support a Global Community”
(CHI 2014 Workshop)

14. Slide 14 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Living HCI Curriculum
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
● This workshop will bring together an
interested and active group of HCI students,
academics, and industry practitioners from
across the world contribute to a flexible,
living curriculum for HCI Education.
● ...pedagogical tools such as lesson plans,
assignments, and bibliographies; YouTube
videos; open source code; novel approaches
for teaching emerging topics; general best
practices; important cultural differences…

15. Slide 15 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Who are these people? Why should we talk with them?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

16. Slide 16 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
ASIS&T SIG ED
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● Chair: Laura Christopherson
● Co Chair-elect: Chris Cunningham, Mirna
Turcios
● Secretary/Treasurer: Sarah Ramdeen
● Communication Officer: Hassan Zamir
● Program Coordinator: Karen Miller
● Publications Officer: Julia Khanova
● Past Chair: Naresh Agarwal

17. Slide 17 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Who are these people? Why should we talk with them?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

18. Slide 18 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Does this purpose statement sound relevant?
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
The <BLANK> takes it as given that expertise in
all forms of information is required for progress
in science, business, education, and culture.
This expertise must include:
● understanding of the uses and users of
information
● the nature of information itself
● information technologies and their applications

19. Slide 19 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
iSchools
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO

20. Slide 20 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Many more OBVIOUS ones!
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
● A syllabus for user experience
● Day Seven: Designing structure.
Interaction design
● Day Eight: Designing structure.
Information architecture

21. Slide 21 Keith Instone: Teaching IA = Connections
Thanks!
TEACHING INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A ROUND TABLE WORKSHOP AT THE IA SUMMIT 2014 – SAN DIEGO
Reminder!
Goal:
Who we should talk with after
today
Thanks!