Tactical creativity in sports: New article
Daniel Memmert is Professor and Executive Head of the Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne. A lifelong sp...
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STEM Futures at AAAS
ASU recently hosted, what is known as, the world’s largest scientific gathering, the annual conference of the American Association of the Advancement of S...
Let children play: Bringing evolutionary psychology to creativity
As a part of our ongoing series on creativity we recently spoke with Dr. Peter Gray, professor of Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Gray’s interest in creativit...
Designing the futures of STEM education
“What knowledge is of most worth?” is a question asked over a 100 years ago by the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. His unequivocal answer was—science. Thi...
Of metaphors & molecules: Bridging STEM & the arts
Update on blog post that was published May 30, 2018 – since the article is now published (2 years since it was accepted for publication). Square Roots: Il...
COVID19 & Education
The COVID19 crisis has disrupted education globally at an unprecedented scale. In some ways, we are living through the largest educational social experiment in ...
Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing...
Technology & Education: A provocation
Jill Castek, at the University of Arizona, invited me to participate in an NSF funded workshop on developing “Principles for the equitable design of STEM ...
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...
Multiple metaphors & science learning: New article, new illustrations
180-degree rotational ambigram for “metaphor.” I have been (co)writing a series of articles for iWonder: Rediscovering School Science, a journal fo...