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...
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Call for articles: Failure and Creative Risk in Technology-Enhanced Learning
I am excited to announce a call for articles on Failure and Creative Risk in Technology-Enhanced Learning for a special section in the journal Tech Trends, edit...
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...
EDUsummIT 2019: eBook released
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. EDUsummIT has been conveni...
From artifacts to culture, my journey through design: Keynote at IDC, School of Design
Design is core to my identity, to who I am. Education is the space within which I function but I try to approach everything I do as a designer. This was not alw...
Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing...
Aesthetics & STEM education: Introducing a new framework
I have always been intrigued by the nature and role of the aesthetic experience in learning. A few members of the Deep-Play research group have been exploring t...
Defense against the dark arts: Interview in Sydney Morning Herald
I was in Sydney recently to present a keynote at the MITE conference. I spoke there about some issues that have been concerning me for a while—what I like to ca...
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...
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...