21st Century Learning: 2 Publications

Jun 9, 2011

I am in Paris as a part of EduSummIT: Building a Global Community of Policy-Makers, Educators, and Researchers to Move Education into the Digital Age. EduSummIT is organized by UNESCO (along with other partners) and brings together over 120 scholars, policy makers...

TPACK & Activity Types

Nov 26, 2008

Judi Harris, Matt Koehler and I just submitted an article on Activity Types and TPACK. We had presented this at AERA last year and it took a while getting it ready to submit as a journal article. In this paper we combine the work that Judi (and her colleagues) have...

Harris, Mishra & Koehler, 2009

Jun 11, 2009

Harris, J., Mishra, P. & Koehler, M. J. (2009). Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. In this paper we critically...

7 tools… one big job: Video Explore II

May 3, 2009

A few months ago I had created a video mashup of a commercial (see the original and my mashup here). This video ended with three key words, encouraging people to Explore, Create, Share! I then got the idea for creating short videos to represent these three ideas. I...

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...

Gender & GPS

Apr 29, 2008

During our recent NY / New Jersey visit (during the kids spring break) I had the first opportunity to drive a car equipped with a GPS system. It was a case of love at first sight. I got back home and bought myself a Tom Tom right away. I used this unit extensively...

It Takes Two: A (personal) exploration

Jul 6, 2023

I had written earlier about a contest organized by Dark ‘n’ Light (an e-zine) around the theme of "IT TAKES TWO" and had shared some of my experiments, exploring this theme, using Generative AI. You can see my experiments at: It takes two: A scientific romp using AI...

Indian creative genius

Jun 23, 2010

A great article titled the: The Subtle Technology of Indian Artisanship: From saris to hand-painted signs, design thinking is an unacknowledged force in Indian craft by Ken Botnick & Ira Raja. I have written about ideas such as these earlier, particularly in the...

Fact / Fiction, ambigram

May 29, 2009

Yesterday after I had posted my two latest ambigrams (see them here) I got a message on Facebook from my cousin Sonny (the one who composed the cool music for my Explore, Create videos) saying Big deal. I can make "fact" and "fiction" blur together till they are...

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Sharon Henriksen on January 23, 2017 at 6:53 pm

Loved this interview–you said the arts should be integrated with science, technology, engineering, and math and from My previous teaching experience I totally agree with you. I taught second grade and some of my students best art came out of our math and science topics as well as other core curricular topics — integrations imbeds knowledge and it is great to see ASU bringing these ideas to their teacher preparation courses:)

KJZZ interview on STEAM education