12 Days of Christmas, the desi version

Teacher Knowledge in the age of ChatGPT and Generative AI

Aug 22, 2023

Update March 2024: This paper received the JDLTE Outstanding Research Paper Award recognizing "the single article from the prior volume year with the highest possibility to advance the field of teacher education, based on the criteria of potential impact and...

Leigh’s awesome acceptance speech at AACTE

Mar 2, 2013

As I had written earlier, the EPET Program received the 2013 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology, awarded by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). This is an incredible honor and makes all of us (faculty, staff, and...

Jere Brophy / Motivation Ambigram

Nov 9, 2009

A new ambigram created in memory of Jere Brophy, world renowned scholar on psychology of motivation. The ambigram reads, "motivation" one direction and "Jere Brophy" when rotated by 180 degrees. Click on the image to see a larger version, hosted on Flickr....

Tech Integration Models and GenAI: Podcast Episode (Part II)

Oct 6, 2024

Last week, I shared information about my participation in the Superspeaks | Microsoft EDU podcast on the BAM Radio Network. The discussion focused on technology integration frameworks in the context of Generative AI, featuring a panel of educational technology...

Small pieces, meaningful connections: Why I love the open web

Jun 23, 2025

One of blogging's greatest pleasures, often unspoken, are the truly serendipitous connections one makes. Not networking in the conventional sense, but unexpected encounters with people who find something on my website that connects with them and they reach out. These...

Shin, et. al. wins Outstanding paper award

Mar 4, 2009

Just found out that Shin, T., Koehler, M.J., Mishra, P. Schmidt, D., Baran, E., & Thompson, A.,(2009, March). Changing technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack) through course experiences. Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference of the Society...

Cosmetic changes

Mar 19, 2008

I have made some cosmetic changes to the way the blog looks. The sidebars are now light blue, to differentiate them from the middle (content heavy) column. Once I did this I realized that I did not need that boxy border around the middle column, and pouf, it was gone....

On surviving a Ph.D.

Aug 10, 2010

I just discovered (H/T Daily Dish) Matt Might's website and his writings on graduate school, academia, and the professoriate. Matt is funny, cogent and most importantly insightful. I recommend his writing to anybody who is interested in getting into graduate school,...

Math-Music, serious game design

Feb 29, 2008

My 8 year old daughter, Shreya, came to me the other day and said that she had designed a learning game. I asked her to draw it out for me and here is what she had created. The game is called Math Music and I guess, it builds on the Guitar Hero idea, but adds...

3 Comments

Punya Mishra on December 18, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Papa, good to see you here… I have to approve the first comment from a new user … and then they can comment whenever they want. So drop by when you can and type up in a comment.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:02 pm

liked a lot.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm

shreya is wonderful, a flight of imagination. really nice.