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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: Webinar
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of…
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27 Windows on the Universe (06): The Drive
This is the sixth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
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27 Windows on the Universe (03): The Spark
This is the third in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. The…
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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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AI is WEIRD: Part II
Note: The image above is an original design – showing “AI” embedded in the word “WEIRD” Update – March 30,…
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Generative AI is WEIRD!
Note: This blog post was almost entirely written by ChagGPT based on an analysis of a set of images I…
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Total eclipse of the sun: An experiment with visual AI
In a previous post I explored some of the visual capabilities of ChatGPT. This is a continuation of those experiments,…
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The darker side of curiosity
Curiosity, the willingness to learn more, is often seen as a positive trait one that drives learning, and one can…
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Aesthetics & STEM education: A new framework
I have always been intrigued by the nature and role of the aesthetic experience in learning. A few members of…
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Why teachers should care about beauty in science
Figure 1. “We are a way for the universe to know itself” – Carl SaganScience is one of the most powerful ways…
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WHY: The most important question of all WHY: The most important question of all
Why do anything at all? This blog post is a collection of videos and images that I have collected over time that…
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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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Of clouds, lentils and deep geometries Of clouds, lentils and deep geometries
Back in March of 2012 I was on a plane flying back from the SITE2012 conference in Austin, Texas and…
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Seeing mathematics everywhere… Seeing mathematics everywhere…
Dame Kathleen Ollernshaw was deaf since the age of 8. Despite this she had an amazing life as a mathematician,…
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The search for pattern, beauty & intelligent life… The search for pattern, beauty & intelligent life…
Connecting birds nests to “crop circles under the ocean” leading to some thoughts on perception, beauty and finding intelligent life…
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The joy of learning: Of fire and trees and Dr. Feynman The joy of learning: Of fire and trees and Dr. Feynman
Trees are some of the largest living things in the world. They can weigh tons. For instance the One Oak…
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Celebrating Euler’s birthday Celebrating Euler’s birthday
Google has a new doodle out today (the 15th of April) to celebrate the 306th birth anniversary of Leonhard Euler,…
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Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!
Much has been written about Steve Jobs in the past few weeks since his passing but the best piece I…
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The intangibles of teaching The intangibles of teaching
Jim Garrison and A. G. Rud have a wonderful article on TCRecord on Reverence in Classroom Teaching. Though, reverence may…
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The one rule of teaching The one rule of teaching
Pauline Kael is regarded to be one of the best film reviewers to have ever lived. Sam Sacks has a…
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The mysterious pentagon The mysterious pentagon
There are interesting patterns all around us. Here is one I found the other day. We were boiling lentils in…
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June 18 or June 25, 1178? June 18 or June 25, 1178?
In my summer teaching I often start the day with some examples of interesting things that happened that day in…
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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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TPACK & the moon OR why I love the web TPACK & the moon OR why I love the web
I recently blogged (here and here) about the experiment conducted by students in Italy that allowed them to use publicly…
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The beauty of the web: Shape of the earth The beauty of the web: Shape of the earth
While searching for information for my previous posting on using eclipses to see, I came across an interesting paper that…
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Using eclipses to see Using eclipses to see
Let me start with two questions: First, what is the shape of the Earth? And two, what shapes does the…
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On making computation visible On making computation visible
Here is a cool video about a “a mechanical, binary adding machine that uses marbles to flip the bits” –…
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Visualizing mathematics Visualizing mathematics
I love visual proofs of mathematical theorems. One visual proof I use quite often in my design courses (CEP817 or…