Fact / Fiction, ambigram

TPACK in Spanish

Aug 4, 2016

Back in 2013 we (Koehler, Mishra and Cain) published an updated version of an article on TPACK. Koehler, M. J., Mishra, P., & Cain, W. (2013). What is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)? Journal of Education (193)3, 13-20. This article was...

Shape of the earth, top 10 reasons

Jun 21, 2013

I have written previously about determining the shape of the earth... for instance, here is a post on seeing the shape of the earth using eclipses. (A somewhat similar effect could be seen in my photo of the moon during a lunar eclipse). On the web, I found another...

The civilizing effects of technology

Feb 8, 2013

Martin Amis was recently interviewed in Guernica (Amis Unfiltered, Santiago Wills interviews Martin Amis). The interview covered a wide range of topics, literature, Obama, and a fascinating digression on the relationship between food and national character! What...

SITE presentations: 21st Century learning, TPACK and more…

Mar 15, 2011

I had a bunch of presentations at the recently concluded SITE2011 conference at Nashville TN. There is a lot to post about the conference, particularly the presentations I made at the beginning of the day... but that will have to wait until later. This posting is...

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...

Creativity at Wake Forest

Mar 20, 2009

I presented yesterday at a conference a Wake Forest University titled: Creativity: Worlds in the Making. I was part of a panel that included Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein and Todd Siler. More details about the panel and links to my presentation can be found below....

How to author 85,000 (or is it 200,000) books…

Apr 28, 2008

Andrea Francis just emailed me a note about Professor Phillip Parker who is the world's fastest book author. He has over the past five years over 85,000 books to his name. He is also the most eclectic. As the article says, "He has authored some 188 books related to...

Human-Centered values in a disruptive world

Feb 17, 2020

I have seen the power of the market… But when it becomes the only language, when it becomes the only way of thinking about the right thing to do, it leaves us with a very impoverished sense of how to live together -- Giriharadas, 2018 Over the past few years I have...

Stuck with Google (recursively)

Jan 19, 2010

The other day, for one reason or another, I did a Google search for the word "recursion." According to Wikipedia, recursion ... in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own...

3 Comments

Gaurav Bhatnagar on May 30, 2009 at 12:39 am

Very nice one. Its somehow very different and original too. Given the fake controversy, I suggest that it actually reads Friction.

BTW, while searching for whether what you have made is an ambigram or not, I found a ref to you on wikipedia.

Punya Mishra on May 29, 2009 at 3:04 pm

I know, but it seemed cooler to create a fake controversy … 🙂

Sonny on May 29, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Just saw this again: I did not consider my self deprecating humor a ‘putdown’ of your skills. Quite the contrary, actually. Just for the record;)