Keys to Notes - Learning the Notes for the Keys on a Piano Keyboard

The bottom graphic is the final version of my Notes to Piano Keys graphic. The first one was a failure because you have to look down from the Staff to the keyboard. Wheras, in the two later versions I decided to overlay the keyboard right over the staff. The last one is better because of the color difference between the keyboard and staff thereby reducing confusion. This reference only requires a quick glance instead of studying the graphic everytime.

ASL Finger Spelling Chart

This is a fingerspelling chart that I redesigned. In this chart letters are grouped by the shape of the hand instead of alphabetical order. I chose this design because we all know the alphabetical order, however, when learning finger spelling we are trying to associate a hand position with a letter and since we already know the letter, learning the hand positions is more important.

Engineering Learning for Efficiency

In Chemistry there is the term "elegant" which describes the process of reducing the number of steps needed to synthesize a protein to the minimum. Education should propose the same desire. Hours spent on a topic should never be a substitute for actual knowledge. Currently, the education system is skewed towards hours and not towards knowledge which is why the inflation rate on tuition continues to rise. To change this I propose a National Assessment Administration. It would require each profession to develope and administer an assessment that would allow individuals the opportunity to test into that profession. This would provide an incentive for learners and educators to develope ways that would actually improve the efficiency of the educational process and not just reward the acquisition of hours in a classroom.

To summarize:

• Today an education means putting in hours whether you learn or not.
• This rewards inefficiencies and reduces productivity.
• National Assessments for professions would reward efficient learning and end the monopoly of the hours system.
• This would reduces costs and increase productivity.
• Cost of assessment should reflect the cost of administration and developement.