TPACK Vanity (v. 2.0)

Design for democracy

Aug 25, 2008

Very nice piece in today's NYTimes about ballot design (How Design Can Save Democracy). The article offers a list of problems with the traditional ballot and suggests a solution. A good example of the value of information design. Check it out here

You have a life?

Mar 20, 2008

Story in the NYTimes (forwarded to me by Leigh) titled: Professor as an open book, about how "professors of all ranks and disciplines are revealing such information on public, national platforms: blogs, Web pages, social networking sites, even campus television." Of...

New ambigram: Nihal

Oct 9, 2009

My friend, Hartosh (I had written previously about his mathematical novel here) and his wife Pam, recently had a baby boy. This ambigram is of his name: Nihal Enjoy.

ChatGPT3 writes a Mathematical Proof (in verse)

Feb 25, 2023

Many years ago I got interested in writing poetry about mathematics (all archived on my Math-Poetry page). Just to be clear, I am not a good poet (far from it) and I am even less of a mathematician—but it was a fun exercise to engage in. That said, a couple of my...

Photos from Twente

Jan 26, 2009

I have uploaded a set of photos from my walk around the Twente University campus onto Flickr. You can see the entire set by clicking on the image below. Enjoy.

9 essential books for grad school (and beyond)

Feb 13, 2013

I am am member of the PhD-Design listserv, "a list for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design." I am not very active on the list but have found it an invaluable resource that helps me think. The dialogue is often of pretty high quality and I have...

Hello Hong Kong, goodbye Hong Kong

May 19, 2008

A short and sweet trip to Hong Kong, one full day, two nights, fly in fly out. I was a guest of the University of Hong Kong and gave a talk there yesterday, the last in my series of TPACK talks. I had a good audience, the talk went well, though I did not manage my...

The tensions inherent in creativity

Aug 4, 2016

The next article in our series (Rethinking technology and creativity for the 21st century) for the journal Tech Trends is now available online. This article has an interview with Dr. Mark Runco, Distinguished Research Fellow of the American...

Psychoanalyzing Bush

Jan 19, 2008

I picked up Jacob Weisberg's The Bush Tragedy from the library and finished reading it over the past day and a half. I have never been a fan of Bush, mainly because I was troubled, from the very beginning, by his lack of curiosity, and his unwillingness to learn....

5 Comments

David Graham on October 18, 2021 at 6:30 am

Very informative.

Benjamin Scott on October 18, 2021 at 6:28 am

Nice.

Selena Woodward (@TeacherTechnol) on May 11, 2015 at 1:27 am

Congratulations! That’s fantastic. It doesn’t come as a surprise. Your work has certainly helped me to help hundreds (if not thousands) of teachers (trainee and in service) to get a much better understanding of how to harness the power of technology in the classroom. A big thank you for articulating it so well! 🙂

Scot Graden on April 23, 2015 at 9:56 am

You also got a shout out at the Office of Ed Tech Future Ready Summit in Rhode Island. The Feds are onto you….

Punya Mishra on April 23, 2015 at 10:00 am

Oh no! Thanks for the update, Scott. I guess I gotta be careful now 🙂
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