Holler: Architecture Students Benefit With Design-Build Experience

Oct 03, 2012

"Architects who embrace new models of doing business are doing better than those sitting and waiting for a client to make a phone call and get hired," says School of Architecture and Design Assistant Professor Tobias Holler in Long Island Business News (subscription required).

Holler notes that architecture students who work on design and construction are in a better position to understand their field. Holler led a team of NYIT students in a designing and construction a recycling center in Costa Rica. The project helped them develop entrepreneurial skills and a proactive mindset as they learned how to raise money, market themseelves, and use social media to promote their work.

 

McPherson Offers Global Education Ideas in Parents Magazine

Sep 01, 2012

New Zealand's young students are encouraged to use technology early and often, says Sarah McPherson, Ed.D., chair of the School of Education's department of instructional technology, in "Global Lessons: Education Ideas from Around the World" in Parents. "Students start using technology when they're 5, drawing with simple graphics programs and dictating the captions to their teachers," says McPherson, Ed. D. " By the time kids are in third grade, they're posting their writing and drawings online independently."