Creativity as Resistance: New article

Truth of fact and feeling: Unpacking McLuhan (2/3)

Aug 9, 2022

This is the second of three blog posts about how media influence our thinking. The first post, uses the invention of writing and print to unpack the meaning of McLuhan’s statement, “The medium is the message.” The second post, focuses on a story by Ted Chiang that...

Shreya makes the newspaper!

Nov 10, 2009

For Halloween, my daughter, Shreya's fifth grade class entertained a bunch of first-graders with a spooky music and dance show. A news reporter was there and her photo (Shreya's not the news reporter's) ended up on the cover of The Towne Courier, the local community...

The darker side of curiosity

Jun 12, 2022

Curiosity, the willingness to learn more, is often seen as a positive trait one that drives learning, and one can argue, it drives creativity and innovation. It has been argued as being important for leadership, among other things. I have prized curiosity in my own...

Sketching MSUrbanSTEM

Nov 13, 2018

I have been playing with my iPad a bit, experimenting with sketching and drawing apps for a few months now. I have realized that it is important to give yourself a task, a clear end-goal to work towards if I had to get anywhere. So with that in mind, I decided to...

Deep-Play: Creativity in Math & Art through Visual Wordplay

Mar 1, 2015

I have been creating ambigrams for years now... and I feel extremely lucky that what started as a personal interest and passion has led to some wonderful experiences and learning. These include a series of articles on the mathematics behind these visual designs and...

Creativity, Technology & Teacher Education

Aug 24, 2015

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. This special issue is organized thematically around eight articles...

Mirror, mirror

Aug 7, 2008

Imagine you are standing in front of a bathroom mirror; how big do you think the image of your face is on the surface? And what would happen to the size of that image if you were to step steadily backward, away from the glass? A recent article in the NYTimes (Mirrors...

New course: Creativity in teaching & learning

Apr 1, 2008

Announcing a new online course for the fall semester 2008:Creativity in teaching and learning Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently… You can praise them, disagree...

Google, teaching & creativity

Mar 31, 2008

Mike DeSchryver and I recently presented a paper at AERA titled "Googling creativity: An investigation into how pre-service mathematics teachers use the Web to generate creative ways to teach." The abstract is as follows: This study examined teacher creativity and its...