Lego based Sudoku & Rubik Cube solving robots

Posting from an iTouch

Aug 29, 2008

typing on this keyboard is still kind of painful, though I am getting better every word I type.

Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant posted a video of a CNN story about the Ron Clark Academy and asked whether something like this was scalable? Watch the video as you ponder this question. Embedded video from CNN Video This is a question often asked of me,...

Qualitative research in an age of AI

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Qualitative data can be extremely rich, complex and insightful, allowing us to uncover the complexities of human experiences, perceptions, and interactions. It can also be complicated and messy. And the way we make sense of it is through the one-two punch of thematic...

Open source conferencing

Aug 20, 2008

Just found out about Dimdim (bad name!) from Manas Chakrabarti's blog, At Any Rate. Dimdim is an opensource, free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download...

The Five Spaces for Design in Education

Dec 16, 2019

Note: This post was co-authored with Melissa Warr. I love to talk about design and education. I like to hang out with people who care about design and education. This brings us to TalkingAboutDesign.com, a website/blog created by a group of graduate students (and...

TPACK @ AERA, 2009

Apr 17, 2009

I did not go to AERA this year - choosing instead to go to Chicago to Keynote the Engaging Minds: Pedagogy and Personalism, the 2009 DePaul Faculty Teaching and Learning Conference. We did have a paper to be presented there (and I am sure our Iowa State friends must...

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...

Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation

Oct 19, 2009

In a couple of previous posts I had talked about the idea of postdiction (see the posts here and here). The argument being that good teaching (among a long list of other good things) is postdictable, i.e. it walks the line between predictability and chaos, and most...

Game of Thrones meets Toyota meets Systems Thinking

Aug 4, 2019

Anyone who works in the area of social design knows how important it is to develop a systems-oriented mindset and how difficult it is to do so. One one hand, we know that sustained change is possible only when we work at the level of systems not individuals and...

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