Happy New Year (and a new illusory video)
Since 2008 we have been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string budget, are usually typographical in nature wit...
Author: Punya Mishra
Creativity and the urban STEM teacher: New publication
I have written previously about the MSUrbanSTEM project and what it has meant to me. Over the past couple of years we have also published about this line of wor...
Peer review in the middle school science classroom: New article & illustrations
Fig. 1: Header image. Credits: Illustration by Punya Mishra. License CC-BY-NC. The scientific method is a myth. In more ways than one. Typically in school you a...
The future of work & learning: An interview
I had posted earlier about my visit to Bangalore back in summer to participate in the Quest 2 Learn Annual Summit organized by the Quest Alliance. The two day c...
Sketching MSUrbanSTEM
I have been playing with my iPad a bit, experimenting with sketching and drawing apps for a few months now. I have realized that it is important to give yoursel...
Learner autonomy and creative reflective practice: New journal article
Herbert Simon, famously wrote: Everyone designs who devises courses of actions aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The first two words in...
Ambigrams & Mathematics at the Herberger Young Scholars Academy
The Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) is a school designed for highly gifted students in grades 7-12 affiliated with the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers ...
Technology, Design & OofSI at E-Learn 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...
Miami / Globe Video Update
I had posted earlier about the work our design initiatives team is involved with at Miami Junior-Senior High School. Essentially the entire faculty and leadersh...
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #38: September 2018
New (tongue-in-cheek) TPACK diagram Judi Harris and her team just shared the latest version of the TPACK newsletter #38. You can find the latest issue here (pdf...
Education by Design, 1 year progress report
“Time” 180-degree rotational chain ambigram © Punya Mishra I have been at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for two years now (actually two years...
Douglas Adams & Computational Thinking: New article
Illustration by Punya Mishra. See sketch of Douglas Adams at the end of this post. I have always been a huge fan of Douglas Adams, trying to sneak in his ideas...
On taking beautiful risks: An interview with Dr. Ronald Beghetto
Dr. Ronald Beghetto, Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, is an internationally recognized expert on ...
The TPACK diagram gets an upgrade
The evolution of the TPACK image (1999 – 2017) Note: Apologies in advance for the long post. This has been festering / brewing for a while and I wanted to...
Collaborative Haiku
A silent white board Scribble a first line, and wait Emergent haiku. Last Friday, goofing off between meetings, I scribbled one line, five syllables long, on on...
LanguageART: Meaning making through type & image
I love collecting quotations—usually related to learning, design, and creativity. Over the past couple of years I started trying to visualize these quotations, ...
John McCain, RIP
• • • • • • • • • John Sidney McCain III August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018 The above image is a visual / typographic representation of one his favorite quotes f...
Of raindrops and dying flowers
The rainfall in June – the poems I’ve pasted to walls peel off, but leave traces. ~ Basho All photos taken with my iPhone8 ©punyamishra
Arizona in black & white
Over the past two years in Arizona I have had the opportunity to indulge in my love for photography. Recently I felt the need to play with Adobe Sparks – ...
Expert eyes on creativity
Since 2012, the Deep-Play Research Group has been publishing a series of articles under the broad rubric of Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st C...
Fractals, ambigrams and more
Photo & and design © Punya Mishra. The photo of bubbles was taken with cell phone camera (equipped with a macro lens). Fractals are mathematical/geometrica...
Contemplating creativity with Jonathan Plucker: New article
Photo/Image Credit: Punya Mishra Dr. Jonathon Plucker is an educational psychologist at Johns Hopkins University where he is the Julian C. Stanley Professor of ...
Quest 2 Learn conference in Bangalore & more
I just got back from a lovely few days in Bangalore. I was there to participate in the Quest 2 Learn Annual Summit organized by the Quest Alliance. Convened at ...
Paradoxes, illusions & visual wordplay
Figure 1: Eye-llusion Over the past few months I have been somewhat obsessed with visual illusions, ambiguous images, impossible figures and other such fun stu...
TPACK newsletter #37, June 2018
The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (TPACKNewsletterIssue37) is now available and can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. This i...
We are hiring… join our team
Over the past year the Office of Scholarship and Innovation (OofSI) at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU has been engaged in supporting faculty research...
Education by Design, new fall course
I am excited about my new fall course, titled Education by Design. This is a heavily reimagined version of a class that I taught a couple of times at MSU and on...
Of metaphors & molecules: Bridging STEM & the arts
Square Roots: Illustration by Punya Mishra What do President Kennedy’s speeches have to do with cell biology? And what does the vegetable “radish...
Unleashing Creativity: Interviewed in ISTE article
A few months ago I was interviewed for an article in Empowered Learner, an ISTE member magazine. The final article, Unleashing every genius: Creative genius isn...
James Kaufman on creativity: New article
Dr. James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut and a highly-renowned creativity re...