That synching feeling

India Breakfast, a photo report

Mar 14, 2008

The India themed breakfast at the College of Education, a kick-off for India Week, was a great success. [Here is a previous blog entry announcing this (and other) events.] I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who helped out, and also provide...

Wordplay

Jan 28, 2017

Just some visual wordplay that I have indulged in, just for the heck of it. Nothing really special, though I am partial to the "Explore, Create, Share" design. That was the motto of the MAET program at MSU that I directed for years. Innovate 2 on Creativity...

Creativity is just connecting things

Sep 1, 2011

Steve Jobs retired as CEO of Apple this past week. The Wall Street Journal marked this event by creatingSteve Job's Best Quotes compendium. There are all worth reading - but a couple stood out for their connection to this course. Creativity is just connecting things....

Wordclouds, mathematics and building a better teacher

Feb 2, 2017

Wordcloud created from all the words in the wikipedia page for "mathematics education" What does a teacher need to know to intelligently integrate technology in their teaching? Or better still, what is it that teachers need to know to become effective...

The end of practical obscurity

Aug 5, 2008

There is a somewhat troubling story in NYTimes a couple of days ago: (If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?) about CriminalSearches.com, a free service that lets people search by name through criminal archives of all 50 states and 3,500 counties in the United...

Thank you, Sonya

Aug 3, 2020

Written for my dear friend Sonya-Gunnings Moton, on her retirement from the College of Education at Michigan State University. Dear Sonya, wishing you all the very best on your retirement. Just want to say how much I have valued having you as a friend and colleague...

The TPACK framework in the Handbook of Ed Comm & Tech (4th Ed.)

Aug 8, 2013

Hot off the press: The Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, edited by Spector, Merrill, Elen & Bishop. And we have a chapter in it... Complete reference and abstract below: Koehler, M. J., Mishra, P., Kereluik, K., Shin, T.S., &...

The pleasures of being a teacher

Oct 8, 2008

Yesterday, as I was watching the second presidential debate, and following various bloggers who were live-blogging the event, I took a moment to check my email. I found that I had received a note from a former student. This individual had been in my summer cohort last...

Creativity & AI: On the Perkins Platform Podcast

Feb 23, 2026

I recently joined Dr. Brian K. Perkins on the Perkins Platform Podcast for a conversation that gets at a question I think about a lot: when AI is part of the process, what actually qualifies as your work? In our conversation we pushed back on the tired extremes and...