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THE IDH EDUCATION DIVISION

AI / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH / CIVICS / PRIVACY

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We already spent 20 years teaching all of the insanely complicated, tangled, and broken shit under the hood of AI/Disinfo/Free Speech

to 1000s of students using whatever comedian had a controversy that week:

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We are living proof that we can still fix education, AI, and America.

20-years proven solutions for fixing our colleges via cutting edge free speech, digital civics, AI alignment, and disinformation curricula.

IDH TV / PODCAST CLIP SHOW: IF YOU TEACH FOR A LIVING, YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS

PRESS and MEDIA


NBC / CBS / FORBES / OPEN SOURCE (CANADA) / OMAHA WORLD HERALD / NEBRASKA PUBLIC TELEVISION / HUMAN LAWYER / NEXT GENERATION POLITICS / AI and YOU / AG NEWS

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HOW TO WIN THE 21ST CENTURY

EXPERTISE and WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD


20 years combining and scaling the best ideas from:

Big 10 schools, small colleges ("woke," MAGA-y, and Bible),
a Fortune 500, and two nationally-recognized university presidents.

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Traditional textbooks and curricula cannot possibly keep pace with the daily challenges of our post-digital world.  

Partnering with the Anti-Defamation League, Civic Nebraska, Netflix’s Coded Bias team, Indiana University, Creighton University, and the University of Wisconsin on

🧑🏻🎤local and national interactive civics and technology curriculum for high schools, under-served communities, and undergrad/grad programs; 

🧑🏻🎤creating local, national, & international community educational assets;

🧑🏻🎤 piloting cross-cultural “post-fact” journalism programs with local African American news outlets and inner-city students.


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SPEAKING GIGS / WORKSHOPS / CONSULTING

  • 20 YEARS OF PROVEN PLUG-AND-PLAY BLUEPRINTS TO


    Build revenue generating student/faculty run     think tanks, arts advocacy organizations, and internal/external communications.

  • WHICH LET'S YOU


    Rethink post-AI education: Experiential, interactive, non-ideological, and public-facing.

    Revolutionize assessment     to empower and protect students and faculty.


    Update your curriculum for the post-digital, post-AI, post-DEI, post-Project 2025 world

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AWARD WINNING / STUDENT CV LINE CREATING / WORLD-CHANGING

EXPERIENTIAL and INTERACTIVE LEARNING

Socratic, experiential, entrepreneurial, scalable.

ACROSS EVERY DISCIPLINE

  • REDEFINING HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

    Empowering educators to integrate digital ethics into curricula, equipping students to navigate technology's complexities.

    From addressing algorithmic discrimination to promoting media literacy, we provide actionable strategies that prepare the next generation for ethical decision-making in a tech-driven world.

  • PSST: YOU KNOWS STUDENTS STARTED/RAN THE IDH AS FREAKIN' HOMEWORK, RIGHT?

    and that they ran laps around the Ivies, competitors with millions, and now have better CV's than a lot of Assistant Professors.

    IDH SUDENT PRESS and VICTORIES 
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    DRIVING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

    Partnering with universities nationwide, we’ve implemented scalable programs that inspire critical thinking and collaboration. Discover how our innovative approaches to teaching digital ethics can elevate your institution’s impact on students, communities, and industries.

    IDH EDUCATION DIVISION 
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  • 100% NON-IDEOLOGICAL, INTERDISCPILINARY,
    and INTERCONNECTED
    CURRICULA

    Indoctrinating kids is gross: The IDH lets them control the conversation / what we study depending on what is on the news that day.


    THAT'S THE JOB.

  • OUR STUDENTS BUILD INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED and AWARD WINNING


    THINK TANKS,
    NEWS OUTLETS,
    ART COLLECTIVES,
    ADVOCACY/PR ORGS,
    ED TECH START UPS, PODCASTS,
    INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOKS,
    UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL/CIVIC COALITIONS,
    AND CIVILIAN INFORMATION DEFENSE SYSTEMS

    AS HOMEWORK.

  • SOCRATIC and EXPERIENTIAL: WE'VE NEVER TAUGHT THE SAME CLASS TWICE


    Anyone still using a static syllabus -- or teaching the same thing more than once -- is a goner.

    #AIPROOF

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AWARD WINNING / STUDENT CV LINE CREATING / WORLD-CHANGING

CUTTING-EDGE EDUCATION PLATFORMS



  • and then figuring out how to network

    students, teachers, classrooms, and campuses     across the filter bubble to create authentic student conversations

    and, ya know, save America and stuff

  • MEET DR. M 

  • THERE IS STILL TIME TO:


    Solve the free speech vs DEI mess     (and false flags) for everyone.

    Bring back free speech and respect for all students and faculty.

    Catalyze and curate constructive campus dialogues across cultural, religious, and political divides.

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AWARD WINNING / STUDENT CV LINE CREATING / WORLD-CHANGING

STUDENT VICTORIES


The IDH is "phase 3" of a higher ed "Manhattan Project"

  • THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

    CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
    2018-PRESENT

    Started when Dr. M became an echo-chamber diversity hIre at a Bible college to prove his methods could get conservatives, liberals, Christians, Muslims, and Jewish-Americans to work together on sane and pragmatic technology solutions.

    IDH 

  • INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

    CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
    2017-PRESENT

    Twin Cities' free speech and digital civil rights art collective: Internationally recognized exhibitions, installations, and cutting-edge civic engagement frameworks/events.

    IAA 
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    COMMONPLACE: A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO PERSUASION (FOR AN AGE THAT DESPERATELY NEEDS ONE)

    CO-FOUNDER / CO-DESIGNER
    MCGRAW-HILL and OHIO STATE UNIV
    2007-2012

    The Commonplace project – a partnership between McGraw-Hill and Ohio State’s First Year Writing Program – networked approximately 15,000 students across 5 campuses and 100s of classrooms, generating $750k in revenue.


    COMMONPLACE 
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IDH VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS

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PRESS / MEDIA APPEARANCES

“After Facebook Scandal, Students Take On Issues of Big Tech.” 
NBC KARE-11 Evening News.  
Minneapolis: 7 October 2021. 

Rebroadcast On:
NBC WTOL: Toledo
NBC KHOU: Houston
NBC KXTV: Sacramento.

“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News. 
Minneapolis: 13 September 2018.

PUBLICATIONS

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
February 2023
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
February 2023

“A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics."
Nebraska Lawyer. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.  
Sept/Oct 2022.  

“WandaVision Exposes the Reality that Our Filter Bubbles Control Our Minds.”
Hannah Grubbs.
Popular Culture and Theology. 
September 22, 2021.

“WandaVision: An Intersectional Perspective on the Erasure of Jewish Identity.” 
Joe Cobb. 
Blerg.com. 
April 18th, 2021.  

“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020. 
With Steven Pederson and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
CICA Press:
Seoul, South Korea: 2020.

“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.
With Thomas Freeman and
Samson Hall.
May/June 2020.  

“In Two Voices.” 
Amanda Aherns, Aaron McKain, and Stephen Pederson. 
Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020. 

“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision Making.” 
Thomas Freeman, Aaron McKain, and Samson Hall. 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020.

“Post-Digital Free Speech.” 
Curated Cross-Cultural Zine Exchange. 
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Hennepin County Library.
(Permanent Collection).  September 2019.

“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
With Thomas Lawson.
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed. 
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Lexington Press, 2019. 

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS

Invited Academic Conferences
and Presentations:

“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU. 
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

Winner of online voting competition to present.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
 International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
  Chicago: DePaul University. 
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda
Aherns. 
October 2021.

“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium.
With Dr. Aaron McKain, Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Creighton University. 
Omaha, NE.
  October 2021. 

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
  OSTROM Workshop. 
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. 
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
  With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales. 
March 2020.

Art Exhibitions and Civic Forums

Art Exhibitions 

and Civic Forums
juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international exhibitions

“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.” Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum. 
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022.  With the Institute for Digital Humanity; Institute for Aesthetic
Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State,
Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.  

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”  Juried International Art Exhibition and Community
Education Event.  Minneapolis MN and Online: February 2021. With the Institute for Digital Humanity,
Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher. 

“Contaminated.”  International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum.  Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2020.
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With Allison Baker, the
Institute for Digital Humanity, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  St. Cloud Zine Fest.  St. Cloud, MN. 
February 2020.

“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With the Institute for  Digital Humanity, 

and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  Twin Cities Zine Fest.  Minneapolis, MN.  September 2020.


“Hopeful Women.”  Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism.  Hamline University.  Saint Paul, MN.  Dec
2018.

“World Press Freedom Day: What Do You Have to Say,” Student Art Installation on Free Speech.  Hamline
University.  Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.

“Y2K16.” Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics. Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2016.

“dronesTruck: Operation Como.” Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition. Saint Paul, MN. May 2016.

“School Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Student Art Installation on School Shootings.  Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2015.

COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Competitive Academic
Conferences And Workshops:



“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”  Rhetoric of Health And 

Medicine Conference.  With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.  Online: October 2020.  

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”  International Society for the Study of
Narrative.  With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel .New Orleans, LA.  March 2020.  

“Unsound Methods?” Panel and Multimedia Performance.  Rhetoric Society of America. With Cory Holding, Matt
Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.

 “Sustaining Well-Being in an Electromagnetic Environment: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Brooke Wallington. 
National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Memphis, TN. April 2017.

 "Post-Postmodern Identity Performance and the Digital World, Or: How to Keep Up With the Kardashians.”
Hannah Kolbeck.  National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.

“Pop Will Erase Itself: Music Criticism & Culture after the Digital Turn.”  Tommy Lawson. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.

IDH EDUCATION SOLUTIONS


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