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On rejection: A mini-rant about current academic scholarship

Nov 13, 2024

It started with a rejection. That's nothing new - we academics collect rejections like kids collect Pokemon cards (or whatever it is that they collect these days). But rejection, if it must come, must be for the right reasons. This particular rejection hit...

On the Ethical Perils of Mass-Produced Books: A Concerned Scholar’s View

Apr 1, 2025

The prose below is from a manuscript that was recently discovered in the archives of the Indian National History Museum. It was found among papers donated in 1923 by the estate of Colonel Jackson Vivian Quill III of the Royal Fusiliers, who served in British India...

The Nostalgia Machine: Why Ed Tech Research Keeps Missing the Point

Jan 5, 2026

A colleague recently shared a new study with me that, on the surface, seemed to confirm what many people suspect: that AI is making us dumber. The research, (Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Large Language Models versus Web Search on Depth of Learning) by Shiri...

Bringing Design to Education: IDC Talks

Feb 25, 2023

I was recently invited to speak at a series organized by alumni of the IDC School of Design, IIT Powai. As an alum of the same institution it was a great honor to be invited. You can see the entire series here (and I must say there are some awesome speakers there). My...

Master’s course wins ATT Award

Mar 31, 2009

Just got the news from Carrie Albin, Outreach Coordinator of our Educational Technology Certificate Program (which is part of our Master's in Educational Technology program) that our CEP810 (Teaching for Understanding with Computers) course earned first place in the...

The 5 Spaces Framework for Design in Education: The growth of an idea

Dec 10, 2023

The Five Spaces for Design in Education framework argues that design in education happens in 5 interrelated spaces: artifacts, processes, experiences, systems and culture. We have typically represented this as follows. Over the past years we have published and...

Center for American Progress Webinar: AI in Education

Oct 29, 2024

I had the pleasure, this morning, of participating in a panel discussion organized by the Center for American Progress, titled Leveraging Technology To Equip K-12 Students for Success. Although the title covered a broad view of technology, our focus was specifically...

3 pieces of wisdom, one muddled conclusion

Jun 15, 2009

Just came up with this in response to something Leigh had said on Facebook... thought it ought to be saved for the future: Great fools think that birds of a feather seldom differ together! I wonder what it means? Can you identify the three nuggets of wisdom that went...

Constructing knowledge on the web: New dissertation

Nov 26, 2012

I am pleased and proud to announce that Mike DeSchryver recently defended his dissertation, titled: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis: How Advanced Learners Used the Web to Construct Knowledge about Climate Change Behavior This is an excellent piece...