Archive for October, 2009
Mastery=unconscious (contd.)
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Personal, Philosophy, Representation, Teaching, Worth Reading, Writing | 2 Comments »
Robin Revette Fowler sent me a message on Facebook regarding my recent posting(s) about moving from incompetence to mastery (see the two previous posts here and here). She took issue ... Read more..Unconscious competence, continuing the dialogue
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Engineering, Games, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Research, Teaching | No Comments »
Ken Friedman, whose article I had used as the basis of my previous posting, From incompetence to mastery, the stages dropped me an email in response to my critique. To ... Read more..From incompetence to mastery, the stages
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Evolution, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Stories, Teaching, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
One who knows and knows he knows is a wise man, Follow Him One who knows and knows not he knows is asleep, Awaken him One who knows not and knows he ... Read more..Jere Brophy, 1940 – 2009
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in News, Personal, Stories | No Comments »
There is a nice article in the State News about Jere Brophy including quotes from his daughter Cheri Spier, my department chair Dick Prawat, and my former advisee (now faculty ... Read more..Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fiction, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Puzzles, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
In a couple of previous posts I had talked about the idea of postdiction (see the posts here and here). The argument being that good teaching (among a long list ... Read more..Diwali 09 Photos
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Art, Fun, India, News, Personal, Photography, Religion, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
The Lansing temple recently organized a special Diwali program. My daughter Shreya participated in a dance and I, as always, took photographs of the event. Click here or the image ... Read more..Happy Diwali
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Design, Fun, India, Personal, Religion, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Happy Diwali For an interactive card click here ... . Remember to turn your volume way up, and click anywhere in the sky above the Taj Mahal for some environmentally friendly, fireworks. Read more..Jere Brophy, note from the Dean
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Personal, Psychology, Research, Teaching | 4 Comments »
Carole Ames, Dean of the College just sent out this note regarding the sad news of Jere Brophy's passing. She has asked for it to be shared with our broader ... Read more..Jere Brophy
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Personal | 4 Comments »
Jere Brophy Scholar, Teacher, Friend Untitled This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other ... Read more..AACTE Webinar series coming up!
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Learning, Online Learning, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I chair the committee on Innovation & Technology of the American Association for Innovation & Technology (AACTE). The committee has been working hard with people over at AACTE (Rachel Popham ... Read more..Postdictable, the commercials
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Puzzles, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
I had written earlier about the idea of "postdictable" which was defined as something that is "surprising initially, but then understandable with a bit of thought." It lies at the ... Read more..Finding patterns (& creating them)
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Identity, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Representation, Worth Reading | No Comments »
As readers of this blog know I love examples of seeing things in new ways. That to me if often the crux of creativity. Anyway here are two examples. The ... Read more..William Kamkwamba, TED talk
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Economics, Engineering, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Science, Stories, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I had written a couple of days ago about William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book. From Bob Reuter's ... Read more..Shreya’s blog, new Sci-Po’s
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Teaching, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
Shreya, my daughter has a blog, Uniquely Mine. An RSS feed from her blog can be found right here (just scroll down and see the right column). Anyway, over the ... Read more..New ambigram: Nihal
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, India, Personal, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
My friend, Hartosh (I had written previously about his mathematical novel here) and his wife Pam, recently had a baby boy. This ambigram is of his name: Nihal Enjoy. Read more..A boy and his windmill
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Economics, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Science, Stories, Worth Reading | 9 Comments »
The Daily Show featured William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book! I have always been a fan of jugaad, ... Read more..TPACK newsletter #4, Aug – Sept 09
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Housekeeping, Learning, Online Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Welcome to the fourth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 494 subscribers (representing a 36% increase during the last four months!), and appearing bimonthly between August and April. If ... Read more..Barcode yourself
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Fun, Good | Bad Design, Identity, Representation, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Now that all of us are commodities, with personal brand names (and brand value) it is time to take the next step. It is time to get your own barcode! ... Read more..Ron Clark Academy, scalable?
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Engineering, Evolution, Learning, MAET, Teaching, Worth Reading | 6 Comments »
Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant posted a video of a CNN story about the Ron Clark Academy and asked whether something like this was scalable? Watch the video as you ... Read more..New forms of doctorate
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in Design, Evolution, Learning, Publications, Representation, Research, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The Institute of Education, University of London is organizing a series of seminars on New forms of doctorate i.e. the manner in which multimodality and e-learning are influencing the nature ... Read more..Leigh Wolf @IgniteLansing
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, MAET, Philosophy, Photography, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Leigh Wolf, my partner in crime as far as the MAET program goes, recently presented at Ignite Lansing. She talked about her two passions, teaching and food (not sure ... Read more..