Soham, Shreya and I spent this afternoon making a stop-motion animation new year’s card. Check it out…
Have a great 2009!
A few randomly selected blog posts…
The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (#34) is now available and can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. As always, thanks to Judi Harris for all the work that goes into this.
Harris, J., Mishra, P. & Koehler, M. J. (2009). Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. In this paper we critically...
Josh Dean writes about his experience with learning from freely available curricula on the Web. What does that mean, How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?. The article also has a set of links to such curricula that are available on the web.
Zephyr Teachout (supposedly an associate law professor at Fordham University, a writer, and an online entrepreneur) has a great article on bigmoney.com, titled Welcome to Yahoo! U: The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers. His essential argument is...
TPACK triplet design by Punya Mishra The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (#33) can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. A shout-out to Judi Harris for all the work that goes into this.
What is the role of beauty (and aesthetics) in science in science education? This is something that I have been interested in for a long time, going back to highschool. Over the years I have built a small body of scholarship around this topic. Sadly, this work does...
Note: The image above was generated by Adobe Firefly and edited using Photoshop beta. Teaching is a profession steeped in complexity. This complexity manifests in various ways: the diverse skill sets, interests, and backgrounds students bring to the table; the...
Many years ago I constructed an ambigram for the words "good" and "evil." The idea came to me while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. The memory of it is so vivid in my mind that even today when I come to that particular intersection I remember that moment...
I am a huge fan of the show Brain Games on the National Geographic channel. Brain Games focuses on the workings of the brain and the reasons we do what we do. The show is quite creative about how they explain ideas, using a range of techniques games, visual illusions...
Hello Punya,
Saw the Happy New Year stopmotion… creative and entertaining…
Great project to do with kids and then eat up the skittles!!! Would like to know more about your tech-integration projects… Since I’m curious about various tech projects with kids..
Here is one we made with our kids –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjfbe5Pbkjg
Also, I’d like to discuss such more projects with you..
Looking forward to hear from you,
Priti
Happy New Year, Punya. It’s great to see that you’re still up to fun and frolic with technology. All the best!
wonderful.soham’s interest in music is interesting.
This is great – what a brilliant way to use Skittles. Happy 2009 – thanks for sharing the video.
Happy New Year! 🙂