Archive for August, 2009
TPACK in a podcast
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Publications, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | 1 Comment »
Just discovered a podcast on TPACK (titled Understanding TPCK) at the msad75mltinews website. It appears to be based on the article (Too cool for school) that was recently published in ... Read more..TPACK is top story on eSchool News
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Learning, News, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
I just discovered that TPACK made the Top Story of the Week for Educators on eSchool News! Written by Laura Devaney, Senior Editor of eSchoolNews the article is titled, TPACK explores ... Read more..Bringing sensory richness to bleak scientific texts
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in Art, Biology, Design, Representation, Science, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A while ago I had written about how we use language to capture intangible ideas - and the risks associated with not paying attention to these intangibles. I had said ... Read more..Obtuse can be right!
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Fiction, Fun, Mathematics, Personal, Poetry, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
My daughter, whose creative exploits have been featured here before (for instance see her design for a math-music game), now has a blog, titled Uniquely Mine. It features original writing ... Read more..Information is beautiful
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Mathematics, Representation, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Anybody who knows me (and/or reads this blog) will know of my love of issues related to representation (see all postings under that category). So I am always looking out ... Read more..Dewey meets Wong
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fiction, Fun, Personal, Photography, Representation, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
David Wong is a colleague of mine at the College of Education and an avid John Dewey scholar. He also loves to fish. You can learn more about his work ... Read more..Visual proofs
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Puzzles, Representation, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I just came across these lovely visual mathematical proofs. For instance consider the following sequence: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1 and then see the following image ... Read more..