Douglas Kiang

Male

Honolulu

United States

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Punahou School

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http://doug.typepad.com/training/

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About Me

I started teaching at the Museum of Science in Boston, where I taught hands-on discovery-based science to kindergartners and preschoolers. I also developed curriculum, worked with alligators, snakes, and a feisty prairie dog on stage, and learned how to operate the really big lightning machine.

I then moved to Dwight-Englewood School in New Jersey, where I taught upper school English as well as lower school Science for five years. I then returned to Boston, where I received my Master's Degree in Technology in Education from Harvard. My study focused on uses of technology in mediation and negotiation, and included coursework at Harvard Law School and the MIT Media Lab. Being at Harvard helped me to develop my own ideas about technology's role in the classroom, and helped me to start thinking about it as a means to an end, rather than an end in and of itself. My most vivid memory from the School of Education was keeping a moon journal in Eleanor Duckworth's class on Teaching and Learning, and realizing that great teaching and learning might not have anything to do with sitting in front of a computer!

After Harvard I worked as a course developer and later as director of corporate education at a startup that produces online courses for lawyers and corporate executives. For four years I worked as an Academic Technology Advisor in Boston at Noble & Greenough School, developing and facilitating interdisciplinary projects in the middle school.

In 2007 I was selected as one of two Apple Distinguished Educators from the state of Massachusetts. In 2008 I was selected by Apple to work with twenty other teachers from around the country to design a 21st century curriculum called Apple Classroom of Tomorrow 2 -- a successor to a ten-year longitudinal study that provided the first research-based data of the effect of a 1:1 computing environment on teaching and learning in the classroom.

I am currently a Technology Resource teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii (my alma mater!) I support the use of technology in the classroom by working with teachers to develop hands-on units that use technology tools to enhance their curriculum and extend student learning. What appeals to me most is the wide range of opportunity that I have to develop classes and curricula that will broaden the scope of our computer science department to appeal to a wider range of students, particularly non-programmers and students wishing to explore the broadening issues of equity, ethics, and legal boundaries at the intersection of technology and society.

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