Welcome to Punya Mishra's Web Home

Punya's PhotoI am associate professor of Educational Technology at the College of Education at Michigan State University. These pages are an ongoing digital archive of much of my professional and some of my personal life. You can read my blog, check out my vita, contact me, or follow the other links on this page.

If you want to contact me for a speaking engagement / consulting project click here for more information.

 

Research & Scholarship
Teachers, Creativity & TPACK: SITE Keynote (QT movie) | Handbook of TPCK for Educators (read the first chapter, Introducing TPACK) | TPACK @ AERA 08 | Original TCRecord Article (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) | Integrating Technology in higher education | TPACK wiki |
 
wordplay
Creative stuff
Ambigrams & other visual wordplay | Photography | Photomosaics | Hari Puttar and the Magic Wand: Harry Potter meets Bollywood | Palindromic Poetry | Palm Art | Alphabet on Crack | Images are Cool I & II | Have phone will shoot: A Razr, a camera and a computer | Sketches with a graphics tablet |
 
Worth a read
A long view of knowlege: Thoughts on technology, knowldege and cultural evolution | Of suns & eclipses: Learning to see | Best practice v.s. PGP: Pretty good posting? | 2001, 40 years after: Movies, media & the meaning of life | The degradation of Matt: Illustrating history of science | New Tech & Ed Research: The need for new paradigms | Of play and games: Or why players are better than gamers | Baby Talk: For would be parents everywhere! | RK, calligrapher, designer, teacher: (+ Design is for Life) | Value in an age of free: What does it mean for educators | Disciplined thinking: Having your PCK | You have a life? A balancing act | The evolution of East Lansing: Seeds of a name | Math-Music, Serious game design: Guitar Hero for arithmetic
 
News
MSU & AT&T award Radio Show :-) | Malik, Mishra & Shanblatt (2008) engineering education study receives award | TPACK in EdWeek: Quotes from yours truly & TPACK | MSU & AT&T award for instructional technology | Technology integration in higher education | SITE 2008 Keynote, Google & Creativity; and Trust & Digital Technologies | India themed breakfast a great success | Milap 2008 + Dances for Cause: Photo shoots | TPACK Major forum at AACTE + TPACK book signing
 
Some random photos
 
… and to end, a cool quote

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society. But for me, education means making creators. You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. — Jean Piaget