12 Days of Christmas, the desi version

Things we hold on to (in a shifting world)

Sep 16, 2022

Title image created using Dall E 2, with input by Punya Mishra My colleague Jill Koyama shared an essay published in the Refugee Research Online journal, titled "It's all in the bag: Refugees and Materiality."...

SITE2022: San Diego

Apr 14, 2022

I sent the past week in San Diego at the SITE 2022 conference—first face to face conference in over 2.5 years. It was great to get out meet old friends, make new ones, and just spend time together. Below are (for the record) the papers and presentations that I was...

TPACK newsletter #5, Oct – Nov 09

Nov 1, 2009

TPACK Newsletter, Issue #5: October/November 2009 Welcome to the fifth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 568 subscribers (representing a 15% increase during the last two months!), and appearing bimonthly between August and April. If you are not sure what TPACK...

Of math and ambigrams: Exploring Symmetry

Mar 26, 2014

Ambigram for Symmetry displaying rotational symmetry I have been writing a series of articles for At Right Angles (a mathematics education magazine) with my friend Gaurav Bhatnagar on the art and mathematics of ambigrams. The first article in the series (Of Art and...

MSU college of Ed leads US News rankings!

Mar 15, 2011

The 2012 U.S. News rankings of graduate programs in education have been released and there is good news for our college and department. Overall, the College of Education at Michigan State is ranked 17th which is where we were last year. It appears that our reputation...

Value in an age of free…

Feb 6, 2008

What happens when an economy "built on selling precious copies" suddenly confronts the world of the Internet - a world based on the "free flow of free copies?" Kevin Kelly confronts this issue in a recent post titled, Better than free. As he says, "how does one make...

21st Century Skills? What do they mean?

Sep 14, 2009

A decade into the 21st century, how are we doing with the movement to "position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education." The National Journal Online has been conducting an discussion on this topic... some very interesting views represented there, from...

Tell me a story: Delightful design in an airport

Apr 2, 2023

“Design doesn’t need to be delightful for it to work, but that’s like saying food doesn’t need to be tasty to keep us alive” — Frank Chimero I am always looking for examples of good and bad design in the world around me. Good design is rare, functional and at the same...

The 5 Spaces Framework for Design in Education: The growth of an idea

Dec 10, 2023

The Five Spaces for Design in Education framework argues that design in education happens in 5 interrelated spaces: artifacts, processes, experiences, systems and culture. We have typically represented this as follows. Over the past years we have published and...

3 Comments

Punya Mishra on December 18, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Papa, good to see you here… I have to approve the first comment from a new user … and then they can comment whenever they want. So drop by when you can and type up in a comment.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:02 pm

liked a lot.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm

shreya is wonderful, a flight of imagination. really nice.