Lego based Sudoku & Rubik Cube solving robots

Day 2, after lunch, Kozma

Aug 21, 2008

I just starred in a movie! Turns out that they are making a documentary about the conference and were interviewing various participants. So I ended up out holding a microphone in front of a conference banner (that would be the background), speaking into a video...

Henriksen & Mishra, one of popular articles of 2015

Dec 27, 2015

Our recent article in TCRecord on how exemplary teachers incorporate creativity in their teaching (Henriksen & Mishra, 2015) was listed as one of the most popular articles of 2015! You can access the article by clicking the link above and, for the record, see...

Value in an age of free…

Feb 6, 2008

What happens when an economy "built on selling precious copies" suddenly confronts the world of the Internet - a world based on the "free flow of free copies?" Kevin Kelly confronts this issue in a recent post titled, Better than free. As he says, "how does one make...

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...

Living words, MAET Summer 2013

Jul 31, 2013

Steven Jobs famously said, Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were...

There is no app for that

Sep 4, 2014

Ideas.TED.com has a new article titled—There's no app for good teaching: 8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. It quotes a bunch of scholars and researchers, one of whom is yours truly. I am just posting this, for the record. Image...

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...

Coding + Aesthetics: New Journal Article

Feb 10, 2017

Does beauty have a role to play in learning to code? Can code aspire to beauty and elegance? In this article, we argue that it does and it should. Read on... Good, J., Keenan, S. & Mishra, P. (2016). Education:=Coding+Aesthetics; Aesthetic Understanding,...

Impact of technology v.s. chewing gum on learning

Feb 16, 2010

Just got this from Tom Reeves at the CIMA conference, Twente University. Allen, K. L., Galvis, D., Katz, R. V. (2006). Evaluation of CDs and chewing gum in teaching dental anatomy. The New York state dental journal. 72(4): pp 30-33. Abstract: The purposes of this...

2 Comments

Sudoku Strategies on February 23, 2011 at 4:02 am

Nice work Lego.
Tilted Twister is a clever little bugger all right.
Which one would you build first?
Obviously I’d go for Sudoku, but I’m a Rubik’s Cube fan as well.

Sudoku Strategies on May 14, 2010 at 9:49 pm

wow this is amazing. and then it becomes aware and gives birth to Skynet! lol. this is a super creative invention. very cool