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THE IDH EDUCATION DIVISION

AI / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH / CIVICS / PRIVACY

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.

Plus the Black Mirror meets Dead Poets' Society survival story every educator (and probably Congress) needs to hear.

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

Because we started planning for 2025 in 2005.

Already test drove everything w/Big 10, a Bible College, a Fortune 500, a Netflix doc, Bar Associations, and maybe the "wokest" school in America.

And, brother, our solutions are Space freakin' Mountain.

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  • Simple enough for a kindergartner.  Smart enough for Bar Associations (or the Supreme Court).


    The proven bipartisan solutions -- and Black Mirror meets Dead Poets' Society survival story -- every educator (and probably Congress) needs to hear.



    With the scars & title belts to prove it. 

  • Already test drove it w/Big 10, a Bible College, a Fortune 500, a Netflix doc, Bar Associations, and maybe the "wokest" school in America.

  • NEWS and UPDATES


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    We'd like to be taking on classrooms this fall -- starting around October for a "pilot" with a full launch in Spring) -- but that also takes investors/real donations and patrons.

    We need a major R1 -- ideally two across the political divide -- or a few smaller schools to re-scale in a meaningful way.

    (There is no point to us just doing this again at a state/local level again).

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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

OUR STUDENTS DEPROGRAMMED POSTMODERNISM BEFORE PROJECT 2025 LEARNED HOW TO SPELL IT.

AND THEY RUN LEGAL THINK TANKS, LAPS AROUND THE IVIES (WITH BETTER CVs THAN A LOT OF ASSISTANT PROFS) and EVEN THEIR OWN CLASSES FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR.

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IDH EDUCATION SOLUTIONS


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Dr. McKain's Elevator Pitch

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THE FIRST AMENDMENT and HIGHER ED REFORM

I started an internationally-recognized free speech art collective at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire" at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality how to build a Manhattan Project.

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I'VE LAUNCHED THREE START UPS

To prove my teams of students and top world experts could fix higher ed, AI, and post-digital
America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except we live in Minneapolis, some jerk tried to shoot me, and all hell broke loose.

PR and FIXING OUR POLITICAL DIVISIONS

I was a speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

And, as a grad student,
co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform
(w/ a Fortune 500
in 2007).

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AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

technology,
Constitutional law,
American democracy, postmodernism,
and post-AI
politics and education.

HOW TO WIN THE 21ST CENTURY

EXPERTISE and SERVICES


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.


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.

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

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IDH VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS

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SPEAKING GIGS / WORKSHOPS / CONSULTING

  • 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.


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


    Revolutionize assessment to empower and protect students and faculty.



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

    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


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

Plus the Black Mirror meets Dead Poets' Society survival story every educator (and probably Congress) needs to hear.

AND WE HAVE THE SCARS and TITLE BELTS TO PROVE IT (IF YOU TEACH FOR A LIVING, YOU'LL WANT TO WATCH THIS IDH TV CLIPSHOW)

  • 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


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.

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  • 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.

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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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AWARD WINNING / STUDENT CV LINE CREATING / WORLD-CHANGING

STUDENT VICTORIES


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 DIVISION LEADERSHIP

  • Ayin Monge, M.Ed PhD Candidate

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