San Diego Unified School District embraces TPACK

Sep 22, 2009

I had written recently about TPACK being the top story on eSchoolNews (see TPACK is top story on eSchoolNews or go directly to the article: TPACK explores effective ed-tech integration). What I didn't realize at that time is that there were actually three stories...

From being to becoming: Keynote by Shawn Loescher

May 23, 2020

It is rarely that I hear a talk that blows me away. We have all seen the TED talks, and their mutant offspring. The over-hyped music and catchy taglines; the speaker in front of a rapt audience; the crafted delivery with its carefully punctuated pauses and reveals,...

Synthesis: A creative cognitive tool (2 articles)

Aug 25, 2015

Over the past couple of years my research team (the Deep-Play Research group) and I have been writing an on-going series of articles about rethinking technology and creativity for the 21st century. Published in the journal TechTrends, these articles have been great...

Education by Design, 1 year progress report

Sep 22, 2018

"Time" 180-degree rotationalchain ambigram © Punya Mishra I have been at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for two years now (actually two years and a month, but who is counting). In many ways this has been an incredible two years, a period of personal and...

Update on SITE08 Keynote

Apr 2, 2008

A re-edited version of the SITE 2008 Keynote address (by Matt Koehler and me) has been uploaded to the website. You can find the new version here. This presentation depended quite heavily on the exact synching of slide transitions to the audio - and the previous...

Political poetry

Oct 1, 2008

What do Donald Rumsfeld and Sarah Palin have in common? Turns out that they both deliver speeches that can, at be, without much effort, converted into poetry. Check out this and this. Some of them are quite briliant.

Self-similarity in math & ambigrams 3/3

Aug 8, 2014

Self-similarity in geometry is the idea of repeating a similar shape (often at a different scale) over and over again. In other words, a self-similar image contains copies of itself at smaller and smaller scales, such as the image below of the word "zoom."...

Ron Clark Academy, scalable?

Oct 4, 2009

Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant posted a video of a CNN story about the Ron Clark Academy and asked whether something like this was scalable? Watch the video as you ponder this question. Embedded video from CNN Video This is a question often asked of me,...

Bangalore symposium, now on YouTube

Feb 26, 2009

This past August I was in India for a Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation & Creativity. The meeting was organized by the Quest Alliance, USAID and International Youth Foundation and was "designed to bring together education and...

2 Comments

Koinonia Community on September 25, 2008 at 11:32 pm

I can hardly believe it but I got a zero. I am female, 37 years old. Those colors really start to mess with your eyes after a few.
Jules on September 23, 2008 at 8:32 pm

I am female, 30yrs old and my life is ruled by colour.
I scored 7.
I am very impressed with that, considering 0 is perfect, 99 high.

I’d like to know what Del scores…

An IQ test for color