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Fourteen years, 77 columns: Looking back at our TechTrends series
Since 2012, Danah Henriksen and I, along with the Deep-Play Research Group, have been writing a regular column for TechTrends.…
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Value in an Age of AI (Part 1): Revisiting Kevin Kelly’s Generatives
Note: Eighteen years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay titled “Better Than Free.” In this essay he focused on the…
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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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27 Windows on the Universe (09): Metaphors as Windows
I thought I was done with this series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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Brains Without Minds, Eyes Without Hands: Revisiting Visual Literacy in a GenAI World
Everyone seems to be clamoring for AI literacy these days—how to prompt effectively, how to spot AI-generated content, how to…
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Contemplating Design: Remixing the 5 spaces framework
The Five Spaces for Design in Education framework argues that design in education happens in 5 interrelated spaces: artifacts, processes,…
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A-EYE: When AI can see
AI can now see! And talk to you about what it sees! ChatGPT released its latest upgrade – the ability…
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A (Wheatstone) bridge to the past
This is a story of serendipity. Of how an out-of-the-blue email request, about an article I had written over two…
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The TPACK diagram gets an upgrade
The evolution of the TPACK image (1999 – 2017) Note: Apologies in advance for the long post. This has been…
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2 diagrams: 21st century knowledge synthesized & 7 trans-disciplinary skills 2 diagrams: 21st century knowledge synthesized & 7 trans-disciplinary skills
As I go around presenting my work around 21st century learning I get requests for some of the visuals I…
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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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Student engagement in school, the tale of 2 graphs Student engagement in school, the tale of 2 graphs
Gallup recently released a poll on student engagement – and the main finding is that “the longer students stay in…
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Representing tensions through photography Representing tensions through photography
Education is always about leadership and leadership has always been about tensions—navigating through them and seeking to find the right…
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Models of design, creativity and more… Models of design, creativity and more…
The Dubberly Design Office has created a series of models of innovation, play and design. These are terrific resources and…
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The art of science The art of science
I have always been interested in what lies at the intersection of science and art. There are of course many…
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Walking in a straight line Walking in a straight line
Determining the shape of the earth is something I have written about previously. For instance, see this post on seeing…
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Dabbling to see: A rant Dabbling to see: A rant
My friend and colleague Leigh Wolf forwarded me this article on Edward Tufte: The Many Faces (And Sculptures) Of Edward…
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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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Number (non)sense & flatulence!
Numbers are a gas! (Image credit: Phillie Casablanca) Numbers are seen as being critical to developing our understanding of a…
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On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea
Students in my CEP 818 (Creativity in Teaching and Learning) have been using digital photography to explore a variety of…
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Bringing sensory richness to bleak scientific texts Bringing sensory richness to bleak scientific texts
A while ago I had written about how we use language to capture intangible ideas – and the risks associated…
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Information is beautiful Information is beautiful
Anybody who knows me (and/or reads this blog) will know of my love of issues related to representation (see all…
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Visual proofs Visual proofs
I just came across these lovely visual mathematical proofs. For instance consider the following sequence: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8…
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Representing $$, two different ways Representing $$, two different ways
The power of serendipity… A few minutes ago I received a note via Facebook / Ken Dirkin providing a link…
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Making (non)sense of dots & lines Making (non)sense of dots & lines
I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I…
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Yet another periodic table… Yet another periodic table…
The ongoing saga of mis-representing the periodic table for any darned list of objects continues… Here is a new one…
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Representing DNA as code Representing DNA as code
What does it mean to represent something? Sean Nash (of Nashworld) and I have been having some fun at the…
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Visualizing periodic tables (What not to do) Visualizing periodic tables (What not to do)
Sean Nash (of Nashworld) sent me a link to A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods of Management. This is a…
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Multiple representations of the periodic table and learning Multiple representations of the periodic table and learning
Mishra & Yadav (2006) was a paper based around my dissertation research. It took a while to get published and…
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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…