Happy 2016, New Video

eBook on Creativity, Technology & Teacher Education

Jun 22, 2016

Danah Henriksen and I recently edited a special issue of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (Volume 23, Number 3, July 2015) devoted to Creativity, Technology and Teacher Education (see blog post here). This special issue has now been issued as an eBook...

Solzhenitsyn, RIP

Aug 4, 2008

Every now and then it happens. The state or the system encounters an individual who, bafflingly, maddeningly, absurdly, cannot be broken -- Christopher Hitchens Alexander Solzhenitsyn is no more. He was not an easy author to read - and the last time I read him was...

Generative AI, Teacher Knowledge and Educational Research: Bridging Short- and Long-Term Perspectives.

Feb 13, 2024

I am pleased to share our latest article in our ongoing column series for TechTrends on the topics of technology creativity and education. Over the past few months we have focused on generative AI, through conversations with thought leaders such as Chris Dede...

Walking away from Happy Valley

Nov 14, 2011

I have been haunted the past week or so with the scandal enveloping Penn State. Much as been written about it already - and I really have nothing fundamentally new to offer to this discussion. What I did want to share was a parallel that struck me recently about these...

SITE 2011, the fun stuff

Mar 20, 2011

I had posted earlier about the paper presentations I was involved with during the recently concluded SITE conference at Nashville. Matt Koehler and I were co-Program Chairs for the conference, and sadly Matt was sick and had to miss the trip. In the photo below the...

Palindromic poetry in prison, introducing Sandra Gould Ford

Jan 18, 2010

Those who follow this blog know that I love visual wordplay. This is most commonly seen in my ambigram work but another area where I have spent some time is in writing palindromic poetry. I wrote a whole series of poems when I was in graduate school at Illinois and...

Multiple representations of the periodic table and learning

Feb 25, 2009

Mishra & Yadav (2006) was a paper based around my dissertation research. It took a while to get published and I am including it here for the record. My dissertation (Mishra, 1998) was maybe the first place where I made a specific mention of the triad of...

The font of truth i.e. the beauty of Baskerville

Aug 9, 2012

I have been a great fan of Baskerville, the font for a long time. I love the manner it looks on a page and most importantly I love its italic ampersand! Check it out below... isn't that beautiful. I remember setting my doctoral dissertation in Baskerville and...

New ambigrams for AERA

May 1, 2013

I was invited to give two talks at the the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco. One was a Ignite presentation (5 minutes, 20 slides set to move at 15 seconds per slide), and the other was an ED Talk (sort of like a TED talk...

2 Comments

jcalandriello on January 10, 2016 at 12:29 pm

I finally got to view this. Very creative and so pleasant it makes you feel good just watching.

Bikash Bhandary Chetry on January 8, 2016 at 9:34 am

Very creative. Happy 2016 to you all 🙂

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