MSU Fight Song: MAET style

Blogging SETS: Morning session

Aug 20, 2008

I am trying to live blog the conference: Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation & Creativity [Full agenda here]. Let us see how far I can keep this up. August 20: Morning session: The pre-conference session has been about meeting old...

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...

Krishnamurti & Dewey in the Metaverse: Education & Experience in an Age of Virtuality

Mar 21, 2024

What does it mean to have an educative experience? As Dewey famously wrote: The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative ~ John Dewey Questions such as these come to...

Wordle, McCain v.s. Obama

Sep 9, 2008

As I was playing with Wordle (see previous postings here and here) I realized that it could be used for political analysis. So here are John McCain and Barack Obama's acceptance speeches as a word-map. Can you without, my telling you so, figure out which is which? A...

Representing $$, two different ways

Jul 23, 2009

The power of serendipity... A few minutes ago I received a note via Facebook / Ken Dirkin providing a link to Where are your taxes going for 2010?. A few minutes later, via StumbleUpon, I came across this: The MasterCard Commercial I’d Like To See. Now each of these...

The Nostalgia Machine: Why Ed Tech Research Keeps Missing the Point

Jan 5, 2026

A colleague recently shared a new study with me that, on the surface, seemed to confirm what many people suspect: that AI is making us dumber. The research, (Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Large Language Models versus Web Search on Depth of Learning) by Shiri...

Best practice v.s. PGP

Apr 10, 2008

I was recently in a discussion with members of the AACTE committee on Innovation and Technology about the term "best practice." This search for best practice (or practices) is something one hears about all the time in educational (and ed tech) circles. We want to list...

Jeff Keltner from Google Education to talk today

Nov 6, 2008

There has been a great deal of interest in the educational use of cloud computing tools such as Google Docs in the College (and at MSU at large). Though these tools are often free and easy to use, they come with concerns about intellectual property and ownership of...

Pomes on Creativity II

Jul 21, 2009

Yesterday I had blogged about poems written by the year I students at the Plymouth MAET program. Today I spent time with the 2nd year cohort and this is what they came up with. Enjoy. There once was a hidden tiger in all, at times it will make you think you’ll fall....