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...
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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...
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...
Better late than never, 21st century learning: New article
Quest Alliance is an NGO based in Bangalore that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning. I have known of Quest and its d...
STEM teaching & leadership for urban educators: Special Issue on #MSUrbanSTEM
The MSUrbanSTEM project was one of the best projects I have ever been part of. We worked with 124 Chicago Public School STEM educators over three years, in an ...
2017 Torrance Lecture on Creativity: New video
This past April, I delivered the annual E. Paul Torrance Lecture at the University of Georgia. Being invited to give this talk was a huge honor, for two main re...
Blurred visions: Another history of TPACK
I had posted recently a video based on a talk I had given at ASU. In that video I spoke about the role of theory in research through a history of the TPACK fram...
Untangling a decade of creativity scholarship: Old chapter, new image
How do we capture a program of scholarship in an image? This is particularly complicated when the work is a tangled web of connections between research, teachin...
49 Amazing moments of STEM: New article
The universe is made up of stories not atoms — Muriel Rukyeser (Image © punyamishra) Every educator has had an amazing teaching moment. It is that magical momen...
Wordclouds, mathematics and building a better teacher
Wordcloud created from all the words in the wikipedia page for “mathematics education” What does a teacher need to know to intelligently integrate ...