JTE Call for Proposals: Gen AI in Teacher Preparation

Creativity, Digitality, and Teacher PD

Aug 24, 2015

It has been almost 5 years since my research interests shifted formally to issues related to creativity, technology and teacher education. This line of work (though less influential than my TPACK related work) has led to multiple journal articles and research studies....

Quoted in the State News

Mar 22, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Simon Shuster, journalist at the State News. A couple of quotes made it into the article. Here, for the record, is the link: Wired up, ready to go. Interestingly enough, this was the second story that Simon has written about...

Technology, Design & OofSI at E-Learn 2018

Oct 31, 2018

Most of the work that we do at the Office of Scholarship and Innovation at the Teachers College is practical and pragmatic—working with school districts through our community design model, reimagining what university technology labs can be, supporting faculty in their...

Rainbows in your backyard, how scary

Jun 30, 2009

We have been talking about misconceptions in my summer MAET classes and one of my students sent me this hilarious link. There is really nothing much to say... just see it for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s Another video that I saw for the first...

Learning landscapes, special issue on creativity

Feb 9, 2013

My friend Teresa Foulger at Arizona State University informed me about the fact that the journal LEARNing Landscapes has a special issue on creativity. I had not heard of the journal before and I was pleasantly surprised by the articles in this special issue....

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...

Alien Games

Feb 3, 2008

A journal article on games and gender, that has been years in the making is finally going to see the light of day! The complete reference and abstract can be found below. Drop me an email if you would like a copy. Heeter, C., Egidio, R., Mishra, P., Winn, B., & Winn,...

TPACK in context: Call for papers

Jul 4, 2023

Technology integration in teaching is deeply rooted in specific contexts. One could argue that contextual knowledge is of critical importance to teachers and the absence of it would limit, in significant ways, their effectiveness and success as an educators seeking to...

Dances for Cause, photographs

Apr 1, 2008

This past Saturday the Okemos High School auditorium hosted Dances for Cause, a fund-raiser for Habitat for Humanity. My daughter, Shreya, performed a dance with her dance group (the same dance they had performed for Milap 2008). Also on the program were dances from...