Fibonacci’s Poem

Wicked problems, Design & Horst Rittel

Oct 7, 2008

Matt Koehler and I have often talked about the wicked problems of design and teaching with technology (most specifically in our handbook chapter on TPACK). We take the idea of wicked problems from a classic paper written by Rittel and Weber back in 1973. As Wikipedia...

That synching feeling

Apr 17, 2008

David Pogue has an article about SugarSync, an automated Internet backup and synchronization service that can keep track of (and backup) files across multiple machines. The description sounds wonderful - a great example of cloud computing. If only it were a bit...

New TPACK book chapter

Jun 22, 2016

The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi, recently published a book titled “Resource Book on ICT Integrated Teacher Education.” Edited by Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi it is available as an Open Educational Resource...

Religious & Magical Thinking, the Darwinian way

Mar 24, 2008

Two interesting articles about religions and magical thinking. The first from the Economist is about how scientists are attempting to explain religion in evolutionary terms. As the article says, "religion cries out for a biological explanation," though previous...

Natural v.s. Artificial Intelligence in Teaching

Nov 9, 2008

The field of educational technology is littered by attempts to replace the teacher by creating some kind of a technological learning system that would make the teacher redundant. All such attempts have failed. This has, however, not prevented people from trying. This...

Art, design & teaching great quote

Jan 17, 2010

Steve Wagenseller, a student in my 817 Learning Technology by Design seminar wrote something so cool in the class forum that I felt that it was worth recording on my blog... ...One of the differences between art versus design is that a user has to approach the art,...

The Innocent

Jan 16, 2008

I first read Ian McEwan many years ago (in the 80's I think) when he wrote grim and macabre novels and short stories, full of strange dark humor. I found him somewhat interesting but not enough to seek out his books. And then, years later, this past fall I read...

Laptops in the classroom

Apr 17, 2008

Ira Socol has a great post on his blog (SpEdChange) titled Humiliation and the modern professor, in which he speaks to the issue of students bringing laptops to the classroom. Some professors have banned laptops from their classes (I personally know a couple who would...

KJZZ interview on STEAM education

Jan 23, 2017

I was interviewed recently by Mark Brodie of KJZZ.org for a story titled: STEM Vs. STEAM: Educators Urge Adding The Arts To Classrooms. You can listen to the interview on their page by clicking on the link above, or the MP3 below. My piece comes in at around the 3:14...

1 Comment

Ed Ward on November 9, 2024 at 8:10 am

It is well known that the patterns of plants, vegetables, trees, etc. correspond to the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence… It is interesting to note that in the poem “Genesis from the Spirit” by Polish poet Juliusz S?owacki [1809-1849] he says::
“Mathematical thought itself seems to have developed in plants (My?l, zda si?, sama matematyczna rozwija?a si? w ro?linach)”
and
“Each tree is a great solution to a mathematical problem, a mystery of number(s) (Ka?de drzewo jest wielkim rozwi?zaniem matematycznego zadania, tajemnic? liczby)”
Regards
Ed