Lego based Sudoku & Rubik Cube solving robots

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...

The Allegory of the Cave

Feb 17, 2009

Plato's Allegory of the Cave (see Wikipedia entry) illustrates "our nature in its education and want of education." It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and philosophy, a precursor to the kinds of mind-games (think brain in a vat) that...

Modeling & Play as cognitive tools: 2 new articles

May 22, 2015

The next article in our series Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century is out. Sadly there is an error in the title of the paper. The paper explores the idea of play as a key trans-disciplinary habit of mind often used by creative people across...

Speculative fiction and the future of learning

Nov 17, 2022

One of the most fun projects I have been part of was working with authors of speculative fiction around the futures of learning. This was the result of a collaboration with the Center for Science and the Imagination, Slate magazine and New America (supported by the...

Good to be back, SITE 2023 New Orleans

Mar 17, 2023

The Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education conference has been an important part of my professional life for over two decades. My first presentation at a SITE conference was back in 2001 at Orlando, Florida, with none other than Matt Koehler. For the...

Words in 3 Dimensions

Jul 25, 2019

A few weeks ago I started doodling words in 3 dimensions, for no particular reason, and before I knew it I had a bunch of interesting designs. Here is a sample: A bit of goofing around with Keynote and some royalty free music from Kevin McLeod, and I had a little...

TPACK & Social Media at Bloomfield Hills

Nov 15, 2010

I spent a two days a couple of weeks ago with the faculty and leadership of Bloomfield Hills School District. The first day was a workshop on teaching, technology and creativity with the faculty of Model High School and Bowers Academy. Leigh and I had been invited...

Good Evil Ambigram

May 14, 2012

Brad Honeycutt, a fellow Spartan (he graduated 1996 a couple of years before I started here at Michigan State) is fascinated by optical illusions. He has completed a couple of books on optical illusions the first of which will be coming out in July. Scott Kim, one of...

Textbooks meet Bittorrent!

Jul 28, 2008

NYTimes article on how publishers are responding to the advent of peer-to-peer sharing of textbook files. Check out First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.

2 Comments

Sudoku Strategies on February 23, 2011 at 4:02 am

Nice work Lego.
Tilted Twister is a clever little bugger all right.
Which one would you build first?
Obviously I’d go for Sudoku, but I’m a Rubik’s Cube fan as well.

Sudoku Strategies on May 14, 2010 at 9:49 pm

wow this is amazing. and then it becomes aware and gives birth to Skynet! lol. this is a super creative invention. very cool