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The Plays I Never Saw: A Tribute to Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard, the renowned playwright, has died. The funny thing is that I never saw any of his plays performed.…
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TPACK Handbook 3rd Edition (Plus: Covers that didn’t make it)
Twenty years. That’s how long it’s been since Matt Koehler and I published the 2006 article that gave the TPACK…
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Subversion as Literacy: Foreword in “Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms”
A little less than a year ago, my friends and colleagues, Marie Heath and Stephanie Smith Budhai reached out to…
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On the Ethical Perils of Mass-Produced Books: A Concerned Scholar’s View
The prose below is from a manuscript that was recently discovered in the archives of the Indian National History Museum.…
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Many Voices, One Song: Orchestrating Polyphonic Learning
In music, polyphony describes a texture where multiple independent melodic voices interweave to create something greater than the sum of…
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AI writes book reviews
Here is the title and abstract for a book review that was just published in the Irish Journal of Technology…
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The joy of learning: A reflection
What is this thing called learning? What does it mean to learn something? What makes us want to learn? Why…
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TPACK Handbook, 3rd Edition: Call for proposals
I have been an academic for almost a quarter of a century (longer, if you include my years in graduate…
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We Have Always Been Rhizomatic
Danah Henriksen and I were recently asked to write a foreword for a book titled New Directions in Rhizomatic Learning:…
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Creative Provocations: Speculations on the future of creativity, technology & learning (New Book)
I am excited to announce the publication of a new book, edited by Danah Henriksen and yours truly. Titled Creative…
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Words & Worlds with Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson, an award- winning author, editor, and Associate Professor in the University of Kansas’s MFA in Creative Writing program.…
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Revealed by what we do not scrutinize: Book review on mobile Learning
Rohit Mehta (shy artist, polite scientist & stealthy educator) and I just published a review of the book Mobile Learning:…
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NEW BOOK! Creativity, Technology & Education
I am thrilled to announce the publication of a new book, a Mishra-Henriksen production titled Creativity, Technology & Education: Exploring their…
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Design book-review podcasts
I am teaching a new masters/doctoral seminar titled Design in the real world. This is the first class I am teaching here…
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Robert Pirsig, 1928 – 2017
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of those books that have influenced me deeply. I read it…
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Review of TPACK Handbook 2nd Edition
Douglas Harvey and Ronald Carol, both at Stockton University in New Jersey have reviewed the 2nd Edition of the TPACK Handbook for…
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Rich TPACK Cases: Great Resource Book
The TPACK framework is a theoretical framework that seeks to influence practice. And most gratifyingly (for Matt Koehler and myself) it appears…
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Ambigrams & Math: In one embeddable ebook Ambigrams & Math: In one embeddable ebook
Over the past two years Gaurav Bhatnagar and I have written five columns for the Math education journal At Right…
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Ambigrams in new book Ambigrams in new book
The Art of Deception: Illusions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind is a new book edited by Brad Honeycutt.…
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Why don’t students like school… In 30 mins! Why don’t students like school… In 30 mins!
One of the challenges faced by all instructors is ensuring that students actually read the textbook. This summer we came…
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Endless rewriting: What great academic advising looks like Endless rewriting: What great academic advising looks like
Helen Hazen, is the author of 1983 book, Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination. In a recent article…
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New ambigram book, with 3 of my designs New ambigram book, with 3 of my designs
Ambigrams Revealed: A Graphic Designer’s Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception is a new…
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New TPACK themed book on English Education New TPACK themed book on English Education
My friend Carl Young of NCState recently released an edited volume (co-editor, Sara Kajder a the University of Pittsburgh) titled Research on Technology…
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Books on visualization & info-graphics Books on visualization & info-graphics
There was a recent query on the PhD-Design-List regarding sources for designers on how to make good info-graphics and data-visualizations. I…
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9 essential books for grad school (and beyond) 9 essential books for grad school (and beyond)
I am am member of the PhD-Design listserv, “a list for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design.” I…
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The civilizing effects of technology The civilizing effects of technology
Martin Amis was recently interviewed in Guernica (Amis Unfiltered, Santiago Wills interviews Martin Amis). The interview covered a wide range…
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Technologies “R us: A great essay by Adam Gopnik Technologies “R us: A great essay by Adam Gopnik
This morning I was at the doctor’s office and picked up a dated (February, 2011) New Yorker magazine and discovered…
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Martin Gardner, RIP Martin Gardner, RIP
Martin Gardner, 1914 – 2010 Martin Gardner died five days ago. Gardner was an influential writer about mathematics and was…
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Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism
Image Credit Leeks As readers of the blog know, Matt Koehler and I work together quite a lot. In fact…
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Unpacking TPACK, the book Unpacking TPACK, the book
Candace Figg & Jenny Burson have just released a book titled: Designs for Unpacking Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), making…