
Matt Mooney
Assistant Professor of Web & Interactive Media
Penn College of Technology
Penn College of Technology
Assistant Professor of Web & Interactive Media
I teach, I learn, and I try to inspire my students to do and be more.
As a professor, I teach, I challenge, and I do my best to excite and inspire my students. Right now I teach future creative professionals, I used to teach pre-service teachers. Since my field changes all the time, I'm constantly learning. I LOVE that! My goal is to help my students catch that bug. I want them to be ready for the professional world, but also to be excited about all the unknowns that await them. I challenge them to think about how they learn, and learn things for the sake of learning.
Here's the first step for college students
Learn to fail. So much of what we do is learned through doing. If you can't be comfortable with failing and learning from those failures, you're going to have a really difficult time in most technology professions. Being comfortable with failure means developing troubleshooting and critical thinking skills. It's about solving problems and finding multiple solutions so you can use the best one.
"You should take that job, it's secure and close to home. Do you know how many years I worked to make that kind of salary? Why would you go to grad school and live in near poverty?"