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A few things have come together over the past few months that feel less like separate announcements and more like…
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Galaxy on the Edge (of the Page): Kohei Sugiura’s design cosmos
I first heard the name Kohei Sugiura in a classroom at IDC, from my professor Kirti Trivedi (or KT which…
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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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Bridging Cultures: Two Weeks as a Fulbright Specialist in Brazil
There is a particular humility in being invited somewhere as “the TPACK guy.” TPACK is the framework that Matt Koehler…
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27 Windows on the Universe (08): The Last Window
This is the last post in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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John Dewey, Mrs. Sehgal & R.K. Joshi: Two Brainwaves videos on AI and Teaching
I recently was a guest on Bob Greenberg’s Brainwaves Video Anthology, a remarkable project that since 2014 has grown into…
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Of Three Minds
I was of three minds,Like a treeIn which there are three blackbirds.—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”…
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27 Windows on the Universe (01): The Fan Letter
This is the first in a series of posts about the human side of science, based on interviews with 27…
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Six Years, 266 Episodes, and One Persistent Question
On March 11, 2020, my friend Yong Zhao sent me an email. “I am interested in a thought experiment about…
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Introducing Hyperlinked.us
Around a year ago (January 27, 2025) I got an email out of the blue from Raaghav Pandya, introducing himself…
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From HTML to GenAI: Re-visiting Three Early-Web Projects
I’ve been on a bit of a vibe-coding spree lately, building interactive simulations, educational tools, cultural experiments, all through conversation…
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Remembering John Langdon
John Langdon (website | wikipedia) passed away a few days ago, on January 1, 2026. He was one of the…
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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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From the Archives: My First Paper on Design
Earlier today I had a Zoom call with a doctoral student interested in having me on her comprehensive examination committee.…
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Remembering David Berliner (1938 – 2025)
Note: I wrote the following a day or so after I heard of David Berliner’s passing. I have links to…
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Flawed Jade
I had three conversations this week. One with a colleague, one with a furniture repairer, and one with a physicist…
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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 art of having it both ways!
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)~ Walt Whitman; Song of Myself, 51…
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Small pieces, meaningful connections: Why I love the open web
One of blogging’s greatest pleasures, often unspoken, are the truly serendipitous connections one makes. Not networking in the conventional sense,…
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Reflecting on a Semester of Discovery, Creativity and GenAI
This past spring semester I taught (with Nicole Oster and Lindsey McCaleb) a masters/doctoral seminar on Human Creativity x AI…
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The Stranger Who Changed My Life: A tribute to Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson was someone I had never met. But he changed my life. I learned of Bill’s passing a couple…
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From email to Istanbul: A 17-Year Journey
Back in December 2008, I received an email from a graduate student at Yeditepe University in Turkey requesting me to…
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SITE 2025: Lost and Found
I spent the last week in Orlando at the SITE 2025 conference. During this conference, I set a new personal…
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With Gratitude
About a month ago, I woke up to an unexpected email from Dr. Ravi Gudi, Dean of Alumni and Corporate…
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The Tale of Two Tech Teams: How Small Interactions Expose Our Values
A while back, I wrote about an email that made my heart stop—an auto-generated message declaring that an employee had…
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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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Lee Shulman (1938 – 2024)
The news of Lee Shulman’s passing has led me to reflect on the profound impact he has had on my…
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Hype, Luck, and Numbers: More Gratuitous Self-Promotion
[Because apparently one self-congratulatory post this year wasn’t enough] A few months ago, I wrote about some academic recognition that…
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On rejection: A mini-rant about current academic scholarship
It started with a rejection. That’s nothing new – we academics collect rejections like kids collect Pokemon cards (or whatever…
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From ChatGPT to Chats Devroop: Ed Tech & Time Travel in South Africa
This past week I was in Durban, South Africa presenting at the Innovations in the Science of the Teaching and…