I study what happens at the intersection of technology, creativity, design, and education. The questions shift over time but the territory stays the same: What do teachers need to know to use technology well? How does creativity actually work in educational settings? What does design offer as a way of thinking about learning? And now, urgently: what does generative AI change about all of the above?
Research Explorer
An interactive tour through thirty years of my published scholarship, built from my Google Scholar record. The work is drawn as a tree, each branch a theme, each dot a paper, so you can see ideas take hold, fade, and sometimes resurface decades later as the world and the technology shift. Alongside it: the story behind the work, what the field made of it, and the people I made it with.
6 themes that have kept me busy
TPACK
TPACK. 5 Spaces for Design In Education, A NEW definition of creativity, Supporting Creativity in Learning Environments and more,
AI & Learning
How does AI reshape teaching, learning, expertise, assessment, and creativity — and what a thoughtful, human-centered response looks like, in classrooms and beyond.
Media, Minds & Machines
Exploring how cultural technologies — language, writing, print, television, the internet, now AI — reshape how we create, remember, communicate, and know
Creativity & Learning
What is creativity? How does it work? How does it connect to education? The Seven Trans-Disciplinary Habits of Mind studies of highly creative teachers, and a long-running column in TechTrends.
Design & Education Futures
Developing a rhetoric of aesthetics in STEM education. Finding a space for wonder, beauty, and elegance—from mathematical poetry to ambigrams.
Wonder, Beauty & STEM Learning
Developing a rhetoric of aesthetics in STEM education. Finding a space for wonder, beauty, and elegance—from mathematical poetry to ambigrams.