TPCK (a.k.a TPACK) as Article of the Week!!

The commodification of ugly

Sep 23, 2008

Noah, one of the students in my design doctoral seminar sent me this video by Ze Frank. Check it out.

Aesthetics & STEM education: A new framework

Feb 10, 2019

I have always been intrigued by the nature and role of the aesthetic experience in learning. A few members of the Deep-Play research group have been exploring this issue for a while (for instance we have written on, why science teachers should care about beauty in...

The media debate, politically speaking

Sep 5, 2008

There is a recurring debate in the ed-tech community about if media make a difference. One argument is that media is akin to a conveyance system bringing in supplies (content). At some level it doesn't matter if the content is brought by a truck or a train, a bullock...

The 60 second lecture

Mar 6, 2009

I received an email yesterday from the State News (our local university newspaper) about what I thought of the 60 second lecture—a trend sweeping through online courses. Some of my first thoughts about this are below. If you don't know what they are, check out this...

Video on MSU/Azim Premji University collaboration

Nov 3, 2011

Over the past year I have been involved in an exciting new initiative - a partnership between the College of Education at Michigan State University and the newly set up Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. (A previous post about our ongoing work can be found...

Space Invaders in Paris

Aug 13, 2010

France is being attacked by alien beings! This summer in France I noticed characters from 80's video games in the strangest of places. For instance, see this one, that I found while walking somewhere near the Latin Quarter in Paris. And though I took a picture of just...

Mishra & Koehler, 2006

Jan 12, 2008

The Mishra & Koehler (2006) article is the first and somewhat definitive presentation of the TPCK framework. The complete reference and abstract are given below, as is a link to the original article [pdf format]. Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2006)....

Student engagement in school, the tale of 2 graphs

Jan 21, 2013

Gallup recently released a poll on student engagement - and the main finding is that "the longer students stay in school, the less engaged they become." As the post says: The Gallup Student Poll surveyed nearly 500,000 students in grades five through 12 from more than...

Happy Diwali

Nov 11, 2015

Happy Diwali! Reflect on it 🙂