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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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From Yawn to Yeah!: How I Got an AI to Stop Being So Darn Serious
As part of my class on Human Creativity x AI in Education, students were randomly assigned to Teams A through…
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Creativity class goes to Bollywood
The third blog post from students in my class on Human Creativity x AI in Education. Links to previous posts…
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Can Machines Stink? A Touring Test of Human Exceptionalism
My friend Leigh Wolf sent me the Journal of Imaginary Research‘s 2024 call for abstracts (note, abstracts not papers) on…
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Pencil Literacy: A framework
I have been thinking of pencils lately. Pencils in the context of AI. What if pencils were the latest technological…
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Hype & Luck: Gratuitous Self-Promotion (2024 Edition)
It is natural, if you have been working in a field for a while, and have been somewhat successful, that…
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How to identify AI generated text?
I think I solved the biggest educational challenge of our time, namely: How do we recognize AI generated text from…
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Douglas Adams & Computational Thinking
Illustration by Punya Mishra.See sketch of Douglas Adams at the end of this post. I have always been a huge…
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Origin-al Interface snafu!
The Origins Project at ASU is an attempt to explore humankind’s most fundamental questions about our origins. As the website says, This project…
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Robert Frost writes a paper Robert Frost writes a paper
First it was Lewis Carroll and Jabberwocky and now it is Robert Frost and his poem Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening…
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Jabberwocky goes to graduate school Jabberwocky goes to graduate school
The 5th floor of Erickson Hall is a fun place to be. Typically a bunch of graduate students hang out…
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Having fun with TPACK (songs, skits & more…) Having fun with TPACK (songs, skits & more…)
A search on YouTube reveals a wide range of videos related to TPACK. Most of them are serious descriptions of…
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TPACK Game On (or Precocious us) TPACK Game On (or Precocious us)
I just discovered that Learning & Leading with Technology had an article, back in 2010, about the TPACK game. The…
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Cheating in a test, why that’s the way to go Cheating in a test, why that’s the way to go
I just read this wonderful essay by UCLA professor Peter Nonacs titled: Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory…
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Looking for design in Barcelona Looking for design in Barcelona
Readers of this blog know that I am always looking for examples of good / bad design (actually I am…
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Funny TPACK mashups, the Aussie way Funny TPACK mashups, the Aussie way
TPACK is huge in Australia (for instance see this note TPACK underpins Aussie Teacher Ed Restructuring). I am hopeful that…
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SITE 2011, the fun stuff SITE 2011, the fun stuff
I had posted earlier about the paper presentations I was involved with during the recently concluded SITE conference at Nashville. Matt…
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It’s all Greek to me: TPACK commercial It’s all Greek to me: TPACK commercial
Last summer Matt and I created a couple of TPACK commercials for a video presentation we had been invited to…
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Oh, Shi(f)t! Only in India… Oh, Shi(f)t! Only in India…
I just came across this sign on a wall in Bhubaneswar. Check it out, nothing less than “Tension free shiting!”…
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On surviving a Ph.D. On surviving a Ph.D.
I just discovered (H/T Daily Dish) Matt Might’s website and his writings on graduate school, academia, and the professoriate. Matt…
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Demotivational Posters II Demotivational Posters II
A few weeks ago I posted a note about an assignment I gave my students in the on-campus version of…
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TPACK commercial, UPS/Whiteboard version TPACK commercial, UPS/Whiteboard version
Our ISTE Radio/Video show needed a few commercials to break the monotony – so we created a couple. Here is…
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Demotivational posters Demotivational posters
I have been a big fan of Despair.com and its quirky, dark humor. I particularly love the demotivational posters, with…
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The existence of futility The existence of futility
I have written about the value of seeing humor in the futility of existence (see this and this) but humor…
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My favorite Internet meme (and how it almost died) My favorite Internet meme (and how it almost died)
I have been tracking the Hitler-Downfall parodies for over two years now and it seems that they keep getting better…
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Repurposing a stick. What fun! Repurposing a stick. What fun!
Teaching with technology, for me, is all about repurposing technology. Such repurposing requires creative play. Our presentation at SITE 2010…
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The futility of existence, Part II: What now? The futility of existence, Part II: What now?
So there’s this guy who wants to get into a balloon. Don’t ask why but he does. So he inflates…
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Wimpy? Me? No way? Wimpy? Me? No way?
That’s me, wimpified! (Well that’s the best I could do). Can you do better? Go Wimp Yourself!!
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Technology integration, looking forward to the past Technology integration, looking forward to the past
Tom Johnson’s Adventures in Pencil Integration is the smartest, sassiest blog I have come across in a long time. This…
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Avoid cliche’s like the plague Avoid cliche’s like the plague
Just came across this great comment in an article titled Let us now praise the cliche This Article “Let us…