Educational Change by Design: Creating a school of the future
How do we design a school for the future? This recent article seeks to capture (in the form of a case study) our recent experience in designing such a school. T...
Category: Research
Why creativity, technology and education don’t play well together? New paper
What is the relationship between technology and creativity, particularly in educational contexts? In this article, we provide a critical thematic literature rev...
Teachers ARE designers (in many different ways)
One of the pleasures of academia is working with awesome graduate students. This paper is an example of such a collaboration. Melissa Warr, for some reason or t...
Contextualizing TPACK within systems and culture
Melissa Warr and I were recently asked to write a afterword to a special issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior. The focus of the special issue was on...
China, Australia, Nepal & Australia: A zoom tour of talks
Over the past couple of months I have been asked to give presentations at a variety of different conferences or organizations spread across the world. They are ...
Embracing failure (in a first year technology course): New article
In his book The child and the curriculum; and The school and society John Dewey identified four key impulses for learning that he placed at the foundation of th...
From brains to music: Creativity with Anthony Brandt
From Brains to Music: a Multi-Faceted Discussion of Creativity with Dr. Anthony Brandt Dr. Anthony Brandt, is Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice Univer...
Let children play: Bringing evolutionary psychology to creativity
As a part of our ongoing series on creativity we recently spoke with Dr. Peter Gray, professor of Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Gray’s interest in creativit...
Call for articles: Failure and Creative Risk in Technology-Enhanced Learning
I am excited to announce a call for articles on Failure and Creative Risk in Technology-Enhanced Learning for a special section in the journal Tech Trends, edit...
Of metaphors & molecules: Bridging STEM & the arts
Update on blog post that was published May 30, 2018 – since the article is now published (2 years since it was accepted for publication). Square Roots: Il...