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One Day in Ijuí: On migration, memory and music
On the first day of a class I sometimes ask my students to trace their own lives backwards, from this…
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The perfectly wrong person for the job: My essay on the future of the orchestra
Note to readers: This is the story of how I came to write an essay called “Why Gödel and Escher…
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The Hidden Metal in Ghalib’s Heart
Mirza Ghalib, was a celebrated poet who lived in Delhi in the 19th century Delhi. He was as famous for…
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Code, Kathak, and Confusion: A Story of Learning with GenAI
One of the students in my Human Creativity x AI in Education class is an accomplished Kathak dancer and last…
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The Dance of Entropy: A Transdisciplinary Exploration
One of the ideas we have been exploring in my transdisciplinary creativity class this semester, is that of how generative…
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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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Endless Sky: AI composes a song
A few years ago I wrote a poem titled “A cosmologist worries (about infinity)” inspired by a conversation with my…
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The new convergence
I recently received an email from dean recommending this post titled Thoughts on Now and Then by Andrew Hickey. In…
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From brains to music
From Brains to Music: a Multi-Faceted Discussion of Creativity with Dr. Anthony Brandt Dr. Anthony Brandt, is Professor of Composition…
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Creativity in Surgery, Music & Cooking
Here is the next article in our series Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century for the journal TechTrends. In this article we…
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MSU Fight Song: MAET style MSU Fight Song: MAET style
The summer of 2015, there were 133 students and instructors in the hybrid and overseas components of the MAET program. These people…
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Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava
An amazing presentation by Manjul Bhargava (Fields medal winner in Mathematics) to school children in India. See how he effortlessly…
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Vijay Iyer, polymathy and trans-disciplinary creativity Vijay Iyer, polymathy and trans-disciplinary creativity
Vijay Iyer, (http://vijay-iyer.com/) is an Indian-American jazz pianist and composer. He is a MacArthur Genius grant winner and is currently…
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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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Bollywood meets Guitar Hero Bollywood meets Guitar Hero
Over the Christmas break my daughter and three of her friends got together to make a music video. The idea…
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Ganapati Festival Photographs, 2011 Ganapati Festival Photographs, 2011
The Hindu god Ganesh (the elephant-headed one) is celebrated across India, and the world, around this time of the year.…
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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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Visually representing a song Visually representing a song
How can anybody resist this flowchart / visual representation of Hey Jude! Check it out. Don’t you just hear the…
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Creativity, computers & the human soul Creativity, computers & the human soul
In his article Is Google making us stupid? the author Nicholas Carr takes Sergi Brin to task for something he…
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Nature v.s. nurture, what are we missing Nature v.s. nurture, what are we missing
Jordy Whitmer over at the Birmingham School district forwarded me this link to this really cool video by George Kembel…
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Shreya makes the newspaper! Shreya makes the newspaper!
For Halloween, my daughter, Shreya’s fifth grade class entertained a bunch of first-graders with a spooky music and dance show.…
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Quick Design Video: Are you ready for the future? Quick Design Video: Are you ready for the future?
Leigh Wolf and Ken Dirkin, instructors in the year III of the MAET program in Plymouth have been assigning, what…
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Slumdog night (and Rahman) Slumdog night (and Rahman)
Slumdog rolled into the Oscars tonight. More important to me were the two Oscars for A. R. Rahman for original…
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A different language A different language
I have always been interested in how we use words to capture intangibles. For instance wine connoisseurs have developed a…
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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
… Or Why I love the web. I stumbled upon a piece (Lotus Blossom) by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries the…