Word cloud, redux

The medium is the massage

Jan 27, 2008

Nicholas Carr has an interesting post (titled Rewiring the mind) on the findings of a recent study into the information seeking behaviors of scholars. (The full study in pdf format can be downloaded here.) Carr seems to suggest that these results indicate a...

Eye Twisters

Jan 23, 2008

Eye Twisters: Ambigrams & other Visual Puzzles to Amaze and Entertain is a book edited by Burkard Polster, a professor of mathematics at Monash University. It features some of my work... From the back cover: Eye Twisters is all about ambigrams--words that are...

Too cool for school: Using the TPACK framework

Apr 30, 2009

Matt Koehler and I just published an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, the membership magazine of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The complete citation is as follows: Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2009, May). Too Cool for...

Pragmatic yet hopeful: Talking creativity with Barbara Kerr

Jan 29, 2020

Dr. Barbara Kerr is Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology, and is co-director of the Center for Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Education at the University of Kansas. She utilizes innovative counseling and therapy approaches to better understand the...

The end of the university II

Sep 20, 2009

From my end of the university as we know it series, here is another article, this time from The Washington Monthly, titled College for $99 a Month: The next generation of online education could be great for students—and catastrophic for universities. Here are some key...

Glass half full?

Sep 14, 2008

Just discovered a great riddle/puzzle site: [wu:riddles]. As the site says: The riddles are organized by difficulty ... easy, medium, and hard. Then there is the microsoft section, consisting of weird, open-ended consulting-style questions. The cs and putnam sections...

Dewey, back from the dead

Aug 28, 2008

I just got this email from the Cognitive Science program at MSU inviting me for their weekly cognitive forum. Turns out the speaker this week is someone called John Dewey! For a moment I thought Dewey was back with us 🙂 The title of his talk is "How do we know when...

Teaching to learning styles, what hogwash

Dec 16, 2009

There is an article in today's Chronicle titled Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students. I have been somewhat skeptical of the learning styles literature for a while, not the least for hearing the phrase being bandied about without much...

TPACK newsletter #37, June 2018

Jun 28, 2018

The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (TPACKNewsletterIssue37) is now available and can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. This issue is 60 pages long!!! The amount of work being done in this area never ceases to...


Word map created from the all the words used in Mishra & Koehler 2006 (TCRecord article) & Koehler & Mishra 2008 (Handbook chapter) on TPACK		Word map created from the all the words used in Mishra & Koehler 2006 (TCRecord article) on TPACK

Word map created from the all the words used in my official vita. (it is no wonder that Mishra is the largest word there – the vita is an ego trip after all)		Word map created from the all the words used in David Wong’s article on ideas as fashion. Clearly fashion plays a bigger role in the paper than the ideas 🙂

Word map created from the all the words used in the syllabus for CEP818, Creativity in Teaching & Learning taught in the fall semester of 2008 (with Mike DeSchryver)		The first of two word maps created from the words on the websites RSS feed

The second of two word maps created from the words on the websites RSS feed