James Kruck, PhD
jameskruck.bsky.social
James Kruck, PhD
@jameskruck.bsky.social
Trained in Classics, now focused on learning experiences. Learning Experience Designer at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

website: jameskruck.com
And now I'm wondering:
* How are others incorporating these dimensions into their learning design?
* Have you found ways to address the "spiritual" domain in your educational work?

If you’re curious, I turned my lesson into a self-paced experience
jameskruck.github.io/memorygarden...
Memory Garden: Intergenerational Connection - James Kruck, PhD
A self-paced lesson on designing memory gardens to preserve cultural knowledge and bridge generational gaps, inspired by ancient wisdom traditions.
jameskruck.github.io
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I responded to the challenge by designing a memory garden lesson that connects learners to the past through my educational and personal experiences. This experience was valuable, as it showed me how learning improves by fostering community in the classroom.
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
If you’re not familiar (I was not), LaFever's work explores how traditional educational frameworks (focusing on cognitive, physical, and emotional domains) might be expanded to include spiritual dimensions of learning. The spiritual dimension can help students find meaning, purpose, and connection.
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Q5: we’d need systems (helped by AI?) that could learn about our learners and serve them the right course. So we’d need to know a lot about our learners. And if the learners were to choose their own paths, they’d need some domain knowledge to make these choices. #LearnChat
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Q2: the great thing about skills is that you can (usually) put them into use. For me, this can mean just building courses with new techniques or new technology or new frameworks. Of course, it can also mean just making stuff. Basically, I keep track by putting the skills to use.
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Happily! It was introduced to me as a way to introduce spiritual, cultural, and connectedness into our learning. Here's a great paper: doi.org/10.1080/1467...
Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel: creating learning outcomes that support Indigenous ways of knowing in post-secondary education
Based on a review of works by Indigenous educators, this paper suggests a four-domain framework for developing course outcome statements that will serve all students, with a focus on better support...
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hi #LearnChat! I'm James from London, Ontario. This week I've been learning about Indigenous ways of knowing
April 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Interesting finding! I tend to use Claude for creative work more than I do ChatGPT - though I haven't tried out 4.5 yet.
February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
See Ethan's substack page on this topic for more information: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-new-gene... (7/7)
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
www.oneusefulthing.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There's room for improvements in both artifacts, of course, but I was excited to see what it could come up with with just minimal prompting. Being able to share the output as an artifact (rather than trying to host a page with the interactivity) is also very handy. (6/7)
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The client expects the consultant to implement a comprehensive safety system designed to minimize incidents and accidents throughout the project lifecycle. (5/7)
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In this scenario, the user takes on the role of a forklift safety consultant hired for a major project. Their task is to identify all potential hazards associated with the work, including risks related to processes, environment, personnel, equipment, and materials. (4/7)
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pulling from something else I'm fairly familiar with, I prompted Claude with building out an interactive scenario where the user is a forklift expert (claude.site/artifacts/45...). (3/7)
Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
claude.site
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Interestingly, it extrapolated the themes from my paper and came up with the way you can toggle between a view of the poem as satire or as horror. (2/7)
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM