Creativity, risk-taking & failure in education
Failure and risk-taking are essential to the creative process. It is rare that good original, creative work or ideas come together in the first try. Thus, an im...
Category: Research
STEM Futures at AAAS
ASU recently hosted, what is known as, the world’s largest scientific gathering, the annual conference of the American Association of the Advancement of S...
Youth participatory creativity in digital spaces: An interview with Ioana Literat
Ioana Literat is Assistant Professor in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Ass...
Fishing for problems: Podcast interview
I was recently interviewed by Matt Schneidman (Curator, Creator, Podcast Host) for his Fishing for Problems podcast. Matt also publishes an ed-focused newslett...
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...
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...