Archive for December, 2009
Nature v.s. nurture, what are we missing
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creativity, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Research, Teaching, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
Jordy Whitmer over at the Birmingham School district forwarded me this link to this really cool video by George Kembel on Awakening Creativity. There is a lot in the video ... Read more..Happy 2010! Stop motion movie
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | 7 Comments »
I have had a lot of fun this year playing with video. Most of these experiments were done with my kids (nothing like combining work with pleasure). One of the ... Read more..Finding Nemo, the sea-quel
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fiction, Film, Fun, Personal, Photography, Video, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Our family's stop-motion animation festival continues with our latest offering: Finding Nemo, the sea-quel!! This movie was conceptualized by Shreya and filmed by all of us over a couple of ... Read more..Stop motion fun
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Film, Fun, Personal, Video, Worth Reading | 8 Comments »
My daughter, Shreya, had some friends over yesterday and they created a short stop-motion animation film with the new setup in our basement. Enjoy [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTkhuEfTAnk[/youtube] More videos made with my kids can ... Read more..Phoenix rising
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Economics, Evolution, Learning, News, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Mark Ambinder at the Politics blog at the Atlantic President Obama plans to name Howard A. Schmidt, a veteran cyber security warrior with experience at senior levels of government and industry, ... Read more..Teaching to learning styles, what hogwash
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Psychology, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 11 Comments »
There is an article in today's Chronicle titled Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students. I have been somewhat skeptical of the learning styles literature for a while, ... Read more..Number (non)sense & flatulence!
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Design, Engineering, Fiction, Fun, Good | Bad Design, India, Representation, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Numbers are a gas! (Image credit: Phillie Casablanca) Numbers are seen as being critical to developing our understanding of a subject. As Lord Kelvin, (1824-1907) said: ... when you can measure what ... Read more..On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea
Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Photography, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Students in my CEP 818 (Creativity in Teaching and Learning) have been using digital photography to explore a variety of topics related to trans-disciplinary creativity. I hope to showcase some ... Read more..Putting technology first
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Design, Engineering, Evolution, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Don Norman has a great essay titled Technology First, Needs Last that I strongly recommend. We have been making a similar argument in some of our more recent pieces, see ... Read more..Announcing the Numeroscriptor, great quote
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Engineering, Evolution, Fun, Technology | 1 Comment »
What a wonderful quote... Already every bank of any importance probably uses calculating machines. It is not likely that the fatiguing and uncertain process of having arithmetical calculations of any sort ... Read more..