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		<title>Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/10/19/designing-for-anticipation-teaching-for-anticipation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of other good things) is postdictable, i.e. it walks the line between predictability and chaos, and most importantly makes sense post hoc. To make my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology &amp; Literacy, bemoaning the youth of today :-)</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/10/technology-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One often hears the criticism that students today don&#8217;t know how to write&#8230; the part of the blame is placed on technology, on the limitations of texting and twittering! For instance, here are two quotes from a book review TXTNG: THE GR8 DB8 by Marcus Merkmann in the New York Post.
[Texters are] vandals doing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obtuse can be right!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 (poems, stories) by her. Do check it out. You can find regular updates on this blog via the beauty of RSS feeds on the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dewey meets Wong</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/08/03/dewey-meets-wong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 by going to his web site here. (I had earlier blogged about his work around visually representing ideas here and here). 
A few years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Little Red Riding Hood</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/07/rethinking-little-red-riding-hood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awesome retelling of the old tale&#8230; (h/t Steve Dembo @ teach42).

Slagsmålsklubben &#8211; Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
As Steve says (you can read his full post here) such remixing can provide interesting opportunities for teachers, particularly given the extremely powerful tools we have access to today. Think for a moment about this video. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making (non)sense of dots &amp; lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I went looking for, and the second, fell into my lap, so to speak, due to YouTubes related videos section.
The video I went looking for was based on a delightful book I had picked up at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like to learn, but hate school</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/06/12/like-to-learn-but-hate-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this TCRecord piece, Daniel T. WIllingham uses what we know about cognitive psychology to explain  Why students don&#8217;t like school. He suggests that
although most people believe that humans are good at thinking, it is actually the weakest of our mental faculties&#8230; Our minds are biased against thinking, because thinking is slow and effortful. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to my reading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/12/responding-to-my-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written a response to Mohsin Hamid&#8217;s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a while ago (read it here). Yesterday, I received a note from Irfan critiquing my take on the novel. 
This is what he wrote:
Punya, I read the novel and it does not seem to me, as you interpret, that the character decides to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On messing with your mind</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/01/19/on-messing-with-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating series of illusions to reveal just how complicated a phenomenon perception is. I was particularly impressed by the &#8220;rubber hand&#8221; illusion. 
And then, from Gizmodo, comes the Yoshimoto cube. Words are not enough to describe what this mind-bending object can do, you just have to watch the video.

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		<title>Harold Pinter, RIP</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2008/12/25/harold-pinter-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness — Harold Pinter (1930 &#8211; 2008). 
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