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Student Panel at FOLC Fest

Mar 20, 2024

On March 14-15, 2024, Arizona State University hosted its inaugural Future of Learning Community (FOLC) Fest at the Omni Hotel in Tempe. This conference brought together educators, technologists, and student success advocates to explore how ASU can fulfill its charter...

The ELIZA Effect-ion

Dec 1, 2024

NOTE: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. I first read about the "ELIZA Effect" as a high-school student in India, in Douglas Hofstadter's classic rumination on art, music, humanity and AI—Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.. The...

Engineering education, past & future

Nov 5, 2008

Neeraj Buch and I were invited to talk to a group of engineering educators from India. This was a meeting organized by the College of Engineering and the Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education. The topic I spoke about was was Improving Engineering Education:...

New Computational Thinking article published

Jun 19, 2015

Voogt, J., Fisser., P. Good, J., Mishra, P., & Yadav, A. (2015). Computational thinking in compulsory education: Towards an agenda for research and practice. Education & Information Technologies. Available at...

Bringing Design to Education: Benjamin Cluff Jr. Lecture at BYU McKay School of Education

Apr 9, 2023

I was recently invited to present the Benjamin Cluff Jr. Lecture by the dean and faculty at the Brigham Young University, McKay School of Education. I had a short but lovely visit, meeting old friends, and making new ones. We had some wonderful conversations, over...

Designing for Creative Learning Environments: New chapter

Nov 9, 2023

In 2017, Carmen Richardson and I co-authored a paper (Richardson & Mishra, 2017) introducing SCALE: Support of Creativity in Learning Environment: SCALE, a tool created to evaluate how well educational settings foster student creativity. Unlike formal evaluation...

To thine own mind be true: Understanding cultural technologies, from cave walls to ChatGPT

Nov 15, 2024

For almost 12 years now we have been writing a column series for the journal TechTrends, exploring the intersection of technology, creativity, and learning. Recently, my colleagues and I have been diving deep into generative AI through conversations with scholars like...

Forget MMORPG, its time for MMLSG

Mar 21, 2008

NYTimes article titled, Storming the Campuses on the next big thing on college campuses: GoCrossCampus! This new kind of a game (and game genre) has been described as Multiplayer Locally Social Gaming and the way it is spreading, it may soon need to add "Massively" to...

It takes 10,000 hours

Oct 30, 2008

A quote in a NYTimes article caught my attention According to sports scientists, the most significant predictor of an athlete’s skill is the time spent in practice. “It’s not just genetics,” says Jean Côté, the director of the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies...