TPACK Vanity (v. 2.0)

TED is bullshit 🙂

Mar 11, 2010

Evrim Baran (who I often joke is the only reader of this blog) sent me this link to a set of notes by Jeff Jarvis from a TED talk he recently gave. He says that he used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education,...

Taare Zameen Par

Jan 30, 2008

Taare Zameen Par (loosely translated as "Stars on the earth") is a new movie produced and directed by Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars. He also acts in it. What is unique about this movie is that despite its Bollywood trappings, it is a somewhat serious...

Creativity…

Feb 3, 2008

There is an absolutely dull and pointless story in today's NYTimes on creativity. Though it is titled Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work, this story clearly did not take much time to write. I agree not all articles in the Times are (or need to be) hard news......

Waking up in DC

Sep 18, 2008

I am in Washington DC for a couple of days with two sets of somewhat overlapping meetings. The first is the National Technology Leadership Summit (NTLS) and the second is a meeting of the AACTE committee on Innovation & Technology. NTLS brings together national...

It’s only a game…

Jul 22, 2008

... but what if real people die? Excellent article by William Saletan on Slate about a new breed of war-toys that blur the line between video games and real war. As the article says, "if looks and feels like a video game. But it kills real people." As it turns out,...

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...

New media, new genres

Dec 12, 2008

There is an interesting article in today's NYTimes titled Content and its discontents by Virginia Heffernan. In this article she makes the argument the new digital, online media require new ways of representing information, new ways of thinking about how ideas are...

Fibonacci’s Poem

Dec 11, 2019

Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing the ratio of words, in this line and previous, will equal Phi!A number, elegant, emergent, magical; found...

Learning styles in the classroom? What BS! (But Bing Chat doesn’t care.)

Mar 9, 2023

One of the most enduring myths in education is that of learning styles. I had written about it back in 2009 in a blog post titled: Teaching to learning styles: What hogwash. But it a myth that does not seem to go away, maybe because it seems to have some kind of...

5 Comments

David Graham on October 18, 2021 at 6:30 am

Very informative.

Benjamin Scott on October 18, 2021 at 6:28 am

Nice.

Selena Woodward (@TeacherTechnol) on May 11, 2015 at 1:27 am

Congratulations! That’s fantastic. It doesn’t come as a surprise. Your work has certainly helped me to help hundreds (if not thousands) of teachers (trainee and in service) to get a much better understanding of how to harness the power of technology in the classroom. A big thank you for articulating it so well! 🙂

Scot Graden on April 23, 2015 at 9:56 am

You also got a shout out at the Office of Ed Tech Future Ready Summit in Rhode Island. The Feds are onto you….

Punya Mishra on April 23, 2015 at 10:00 am

Oh no! Thanks for the update, Scott. I guess I gotta be careful now 🙂
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