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Designing STEAM

Feb 12, 2021

Danah Henriksen and I were recently invited to present a keynote (and conduct two workshops) on design thinking and STEAM education at the 2021 NV STEAM conference, organized by the Nevada Museum of Art and Desert Research Institute. Of course, given the pandemic...

A sad day…

Nov 26, 2008

... for Mumbai, for India, and for the world!

The story of stuff

Jul 22, 2008

Check out Story of Stuff or watch the movie... [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMJ32-xp64] For the new version of CEP817 or maybe even CEP917

Happy Birthday

Sep 2, 2009

Happy Birthday, Internet 40 years old today! It all started 40 years ago today, when a couple of computers were connected by a long gray cable ... Read more (and watch a video) at National Geographic

SITE 2010, symposium on TPACK

Apr 5, 2010

I just got back from an extended trip to California (San Jose and San Diego). I will be posting a lot more about this trip but for now here are the slides from a symposium on "Strategies for teacher professional development of TPACK" organized by Joke Voogt of Twente...

The fictions we create (& how they create us)

Jul 11, 2022

The fictions we create (& how they create us) This is a story about a multi-year quest and its resolution (thought not necessarily in the way I was expecting). It is also a story about stories: stories in books and stories that we make up. And how these stories,...

Cognitive psychology of science: Old article

Oct 6, 2017

Science ambigram with 180-degree rotational symmetry This chapter, published back in 1998, focused on the cognitive science of science. I realized today that I had not uploaded this article onto my website. So, better late than never, here it is. But before jumping...

TPACK newsletter #34, October 2017

Oct 10, 2017

The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (#34) is now available and can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. As always, thanks to Judi Harris for all the work that goes into this.

On beauty in banality

Jan 19, 2009

Does beauty transcend banality and inconvenience? If this story about a violin virtuoso, Joshua Bell, playing on the subway station is any indication, we do not have "a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever...

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leigh on August 5, 2008 at 7:39 am

It’s also a great place to start when teaching RSS & blogs. When I was teaching this summer and didn’t have time to keep up with my feeds, Alltop kept me on top of things (pun intended.) I also find it useful for “fringe” interests.