Exploring Technological Contextual Knowing

Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 2506–2509

Although present in the canonical TPACK figure, context is often not considered in research that draws upon TPACK. In this presentation, we bring together TPACK with contextual knowing, a flexible understanding related to actors in a context ...

Topics: Equity & Social Justice, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

TPACK and the Cambrian explosion of AI

Sean Leahy; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 2465–2469

The Cambrian explosion of AI powered tools has raised important questions about their use in education. The TPACK framework address the knowledge and skills that educators need to effectively integrate such emergent technologies into their current...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Designing Innovative STEM Instruction that Encourages Student Creativity

Daniel A. Tillman; Thomas J. Soto; Danah Henriksen; Lauren J. Woo; Punya Mishra; Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 1080–1082

This live Panel Discussion session will encourage audience dialogue during a conversation focused on learning strategies that inspire and encourage student creativity. The presenters each have specialized expertise in research and practice...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), STEM Innovation

Designing for Systems Change: Learning Best Practices from Two Online Education Courses

Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1285–1286

A problem of practice is a complex but actionable issue that emerges in a professional’s sphere of work. Such problems are unlikely to have one right or wrong solution (City et al., 2009). Problems are practice are diverse, constrained uniquely by...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Creativity, Design Thinking & Innovation

Reimagining school post COVID: The design and implementation of an online collaborative design studio

Jennifer Stein; Brandon Yuhas; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1311–1315

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on educational systems across the world, with the sudden shift to online learning in spring 2020 that affected over 84% of the world student population. While this shift brought with it many...

Topics: K-12 Online Learning, Creativity, Design Thinking & Innovation

BioSense Network: Exploring biotechnology through computational microscopes

Sean Leahy; Abhishek Singharoy; Cassandra Kellaris; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1046–1049

The BioSense Network is a collaboration between Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, supported by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense National Defense Education Program. The purpose...

Topics: Science Education, STEM Innovation

Reimagining Practical Applications of the TPACK Framework in the New Digital Era

Rebecca Blankenship; Daniel Mourlam; Ilene Berson; Michael Berson; Cheun-Yeong Lee; Li-Wei Peng; Yi Jin; Irina Lyublinskaya; Xiaoxue Du; Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra; Mia Williams; Tracey Hatfield

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 2198–2203

The purpose of this symposium is to disseminate current research on the best practices for implementing and developing educators’ TPACK. The goal of this symposium is to engage the TPACK community in dialogue regarding how best to leverage and...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Reimagining Practical Applications of the TPACK Framework in the New Digital Era

Rebecca Blankenship; Daniel Mourlam; Ilene Berson; Michael Berson; Cheun-Yeong Lee; Li-Wei Peng; Yi Jin; Irina Lyublinskaya; Xiaoxue Du; Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra; Mia Williams; Tracey Hatfield

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 2192–2197

The purpose of this symposium is to disseminate current research on the best practices for implementing and developing educators’ TPACK. The goal of this symposium is to engage the TPACK community in dialogue regarding how best to leverage and...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Designing the future of undergraduate STEM education: An inter-institutional and interdisciplinary approach

Benjamin Scragg; Trina Davis; Michele Norton; Punya Mishra; Ariel Anbar

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2021 (Mar 29, 2021) pp. 827–836

STEM education has received increased attention lately. What has received less attention is what the substance of STEM education can and should be. Effective STEM education requires going beyond mere knowledge of STEM disciplines; it needs the...

Topics: Instructional Design, Science Education, STEM Innovation

Collaboration, Creation, and Community: A Virtual Community of Practice for Teacher Educators

Jodie Donner; Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 417–421

Instructors who work at large universities or in distance learning programs often have limited face-to-face contact with one another leading to fewer collaboration and co-learning opportunities. A lack of consistent interaction can make designing...

Topics: faculty development

Creating Creative Classrooms 2020: Field-tested Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; David Slykhuis; Shaunna Smith; W. Monty Jones; Jonathan Cohen; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Song An

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1168–1170

This panel discussion presents a group of discussants who each research the use of innovative technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts developing and supporting creative classrooms—such as elementary teachers...

Topics: Creativity, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), Designing Learning Spaces

Creative Classrooms 2020 & Beyond: The Future for Field-testing Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; David Slykhuis; Shaunna Smith; W. Monty Jones; Jonathan Cohen; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Song An

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1171–1172

This panel discussion presents the second part of a sequence, wherein a group of discussants who each research the use of innovative technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts developing and supporting creative classrooms,...

Topics: Creativity, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), Designing Learning Spaces

Teachers and Design: A Literature Review

Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1265–1272

Many scholars have used a design lens to understand teachers and teacher education. Design is changing an existing situation to a desired one; it is the process of creating something new. The literature on teachers and design is broad and describes...

Topics: Creativity, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Beyond TPACK: Expanding Technology and Teacher Education to Systems and Culture

Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra; Ben Scragg

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2558–2562

Despite copious amounts of research on technology in education, many teachers still struggle to use technology effectively. Much research on technology integration focuses on teacher education and design. For example, the TPACK framework describes...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Research & Evaluation, Technology Leadership

Designing the new generation of computer labs for a college of education

Sean Leahy; Punya Mishra

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1129–1132

The purpose of this brief paper presentation is to share the experiences of a complete redesign of the computer lab model and the role it can play to foster creativity, innovation, and improve the learner experience through discovery within a...

Topics: Innovative online learning and educational programming, (2017) Implementation Examples & Issues, (2017) Other

The 5 Discourses of Design in e-Learning

Punya Mishra; Ben Scragg; Melissa Warr

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1362–1365

The history of educational technology is littered with cycles of hype and despair about the potential of a new technology and how it would transform education. We suggest that one reason our field has not been successful at changing education is...

Topics: (2017) Research, (2017) Policy Issues, (2017) Instructional Design, Other

What Do We Mean When We “Design” e-Learning Solutions? An Analysis of Discourses on Design, Technology, and Education

Melissa Warr; Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 717–722

Creators of e-learning solutions often call themselves “designers,” but what does it mean when they “design”? The broader educational research literature has recently seen an increase in interest around design, but the meaning of design across...

Topics: Game-based learning

Part 1: Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age – Implications for Teacher Education

Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Alona Forkosh Baruch; Vadim Grinshkun; Sergey Grigoryev; Miri Shonfeld; Anneke Smits; Danah Henrikson; Michael Henderson; Alexander Uvarov; Mike Philips; Mary Webb; Dale Niederhauser; Punya Mishra; Margaret Leahy; Deirdre Butler; Allard Strijker

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1075–1079

The International Summit on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education (EDUsummIT) met in Borovets, Bulgaria in September 2017 This community of 80 leading scholars, policy makers and educators discussed the theme Rethinking...

Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation

Introduction (to the Special Issue)

Punya Mishra; Sonya Gunnings-Moton; Leigh Graves Wolf; Inese Berzina-Pitcher; Christopher Seals

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 2017) pp. 211–217

In this article we provide a brief overview of the contents of this special issue of the Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, titled Innovative STEM professional development for urban educators: Multiple perspectives on the...

Computational Thinking in Computer Science Classrooms: Viewpoints from CS Educators

Jon Good; Aman Yadav; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 51–59

Computational thinking (CT) has been described as a mental activity, a problem solving approach, and a skill fundamental to most disciplines. For teachers, the varied definitions of CT make it difficult to integrate into the curriculum. The...

Topics: Computational Thinking

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework: Lineages of the First Ten Years of Research: Part 1

Aaron Kessler; Michael Phillips; Matthew Koehler; Punya Mishra; Joshua Rosenberg; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Wei Wang; Judith Harris; Chrystalla Mouza; Daniel Mourlam; Aroutis Foster; Mamta Shah

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2376–2380

The purpose of this symposium is to provide the TPACK community with a snapshot of the first ten years of the TPACK framework with the hope that this comprehensive review will provide the researchers with an opportunity to reflect on the development ...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Education:=Coding+Aesthetics; Aesthetic Understanding, Computer Science Education, and Computational Thinking

Jonathon Good; Sarah Keenan; Punya Mishra

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 35, No. 4 (October 2016) pp. 313–318

The popular press is rife with examples of how students in the United States and around the globe are learning to program, make, and tinker. The Hour of Code, maker-education, and similar efforts are advocating that more students be exposed to...

49 Stories That Make an Ultimate STEM Lesson Plan

Swati Mehta; Rohit Mehta; Inese Berzina-Pitcher; Christopher Seals; Punya Mishra

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 35, No. 4 (October 2016) pp. 343–353

In this paper we reviewed what 49 large urban public school district STEM teachers enrolled in a year-long graduate certificate and fellowship program at a large Midwestern university considered as their amazing teaching moments. They were asked to...

What Educators Get Wrong About 21st Century Learning

Punya Mishra; Rohit Mehta

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2968–2975

The question “What knowledge is of most worth?” is one that deserves being revisited and revised periodically. This is of particular significance today, given the influence of digital technologies on learning. Kereluik et al. (2013) offered a...

Topics: Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Switching Between Reading Stances: Intertextuality and Comprehension in Multimodal Texts

Rohit Mehta; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1604–1610

We live in a world immersed in a variety of linguistic and nonlinguistic modes of representation. As we extend the poststructuralist definition of text to new media, it is important that we extend our research on intertextuality and meaning-making...

Topics: English Education, Digital Storytelling/Video, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Education:=Coding+Aesthetics; Aesthetic Understanding, Computer Science Education, and Computational Thinking

Jonathon Good; Sarah Keenan; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 91–98

The popular press is rife with examples of how students in the United States and around the globe are learning to program, make, and tinker. The Hour of Code, maker-education, and similar efforts are advocating that more students be exposed to...

Topics: Science Education, Computational Thinking

49 Stories That Make an Ultimate STEM Lesson Plan

Swati Mehta; Rohit Mehta; Inese Berzina-Pitcher; Christopher Seals; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2621–2629

In this paper we reviewed what 49 large urban public school district STEM teachers enrolled in a year-long graduate certificate and fellowship program at a large Midwestern university considered as their amazing teaching moments. They were asked to...

Topics: Science Education, Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Reinventing TPACK, STEM Teaching and Leadership in an Urban Context

Punya Mishra; Leigh Graves-Wolf; Sonya Gunnings-Moton; Christopher Seals; Rohit Mehta; Inese Berzina; Swati Mehta; Akesha Horton; Kyle Shack; Candace Marcotte; Missy Cosby; Dakota Pawlicki

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2212–2216

This symposium discusses the pedagogical make up and impact of the MSU-Wipro UrbanSTEM & Leadership Fellowship program on teacher practices, efficacy, and competence. We will describe our instructional approach, which uses the educative experience ...

Topics: Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Reinventing TPACK, STEM Teaching and Leadership in an Urban Context

Punya Mishra; Leigh Graves-Wolf; Sonya Gunnings-Moton; Christopher Seals; Rohit Mehta; Inese Berzina; Swati Mehta; Akesha Horton; Kyle Shack; Candace Marcotte; Missy Cosby; Dakota Pawlicki

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1265–1269

This symposium discusses the pedagogical make up and impact of the MSU-Wipro UrbanSTEM & Leadership Fellowship program on teacher practices, efficacy, and competence. We will describe our instructional approach, which uses the educative experience ...

Topics: Workforce Education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All: The EDUsummIT 2015 Call to Action

Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Alona Forkosh-Baruch; Miri Schönfield; Thérèse Laferrière; J. Michael Spector; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Christensen; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Charoula Angeli

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1246–1248

EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT took place September 14-15, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO...

Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation, International Education

Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All: The EDUsummIT 2015 Call to Action

Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Alona Forkosh-Baruch; Miri Schönfield; Thérèse Laferrière; J. Michael Spector; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Christensen; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Charoula Angeli

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 797–799

EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT took place September 14-15, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO...

Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation, International Education

Creativity, Technology & Teacher Education

Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra

(2016) pp. 1–204

This book focuses on research related to creativity, technology and teacher education, examining these topics through a range of approaches and ideas across multiple contexts. The volume itself began as a special issue of the Journal of Technology & ...

Introduction to the Special Issue: Creativity, Technology & Teacher Education

Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 273–277

This special issue of the Journal of Technology & Teacher Education puts the spotlight on the topic of creativity – within the scope of technology and teacher education. The importance of creativity in teaching can be traced back to foundational...

Topics: Creativity

Novel, Effective, Whole: Toward a NEW Framework for Evaluations of Creative Products

Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra; Rohit Mehta

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 455–478

Creativity is increasingly viewed as an important 21st century skill that needs to be taught in schools. This emphasis on creativity is often reflected by having students engage in open-ended, project based activities and assignments. A key...

Topics: Creativity

Enhancing Urban Teachers STEM and Leadership Capacities: A preliminary report on a unique private-public-public partnership

Punya Mishra; Leigh Wolf; Sonya Gunnings Moton; Candace Marcotte; Kyle Shack; Akesha Horton; Christopher Seals; Alex Lishinski; Dakota Pawlicki

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 981–986

This symposium discusses a unique example of private-public-public partnership (the MSU-Wipro STEM & Leadership program) to enhance the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) teaching and leadership capacities of teachers in a large...

Topics: Leadership, Schools, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Enhancing Urban Teachers STEM and Leadership Capacities: A preliminary report on a unique private-public-public partnership

Punya Mishra; Leigh Wolf; Sonya Gunnings Moton; Candace Marcotte; Kyle Shack; Akesha Horton; Christopher Seals; Alex Lishinski; Dakota Pawlicki

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 987–992

This symposium discusses a unique example of private-public-public partnership (the MSU-Wipro STEM & Leadership program) to enhance the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) teaching and leadership capacities of teachers in a large...

Topics: Leadership, Schools, Engineering, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Creativity SIG Symposium: Creativity Across the Disciplines: Exploring the Boundaries of Teacher Education

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; William Cain; Adam Friedman; Joe Garofalo; Douglas Hartman; David Hicks; John Lee; John C. Park; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1935–1940

Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). Research has shown that teachers, as mentors and role models, are principal constituents in developing ...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Creativity, Research Methods

Creativity SIG Symposium: Creativity Across the Disciplines: Exploring the Boundaries of Teacher Education

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; William Cain; Adam Friedman; Joe Garofalo; Douglas Hartman; David Hicks; John Lee; John C. Park; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1941–1946

Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). Research has shown that teachers, as mentors and role models, are principal constituents in developing ...

Topics: Creativity

Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All

Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Ferial Khaddage; Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Peter Albion; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Mike Searson; Mike Spector; Kwok Wing Lai; David Gibson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1312–1314

EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT in 2015 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO Bangkok....

Topics: Research & Evaluation, Technology Leadership

Creating Creative Classrooms: Field-tested Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Shaunna Smith; Song An; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; Jonathan Cohen; David Slykhuis; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Carlos Paez; Annette Siemssen; Cameron Wilson; Sandy Romo; W. Monty Jones

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 137–140

This roundtable discusses research on the utilization of innovative digital design technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts creating creative classrooms—such as elementary teachers contextualizing mathematics education...

Topics: Digital Fabrication, Elementary Education, Classrooms

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK): Revision and Rethinking

Petra Fisser; Joshua Rosenberg; Jolene Teske; Matthew Koehler; Punya Mishra; Joke Voogt; Jo Tondeur; Johan van Braak; Judi Harris; Charoula Angeli; Nicos Valanides; Andri Christodoulou; Karin Forssell; Leanna Archambault; Vicky Smart; Glenn Finger; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Shu-ju Diana Tai; Wei Wang; Mary Herring

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 907–911

The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators was critical to the development of the field of educational technology research and practice, but much has changed since its publication. The Handbook of Technological...

Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development

YOU ARE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS

Rohit Mehta; Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 561–567

Educational researchers have rarely, if ever, focused attention on the public perception of educational technology, even though these popular/societal perceptions may drive investment and implementation at broader levels. In this paper we seek to...

Topics: Creativity, Information Technology Diffusion/Integration, Digital Storytelling/Video

Distributed TPACK: Going Beyond Knowledge in the Head

Nicoletta Di Blas; Paolo Paolini; Sandra Sawaya; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2464–2472

The TPACK framework has received a lot of attention lately. For the most part, it has been seen as a form of teacher-knowledge residing within the head of individual teachers. Teaching with technology, however, is a complex task and often requires ...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Innovative Digital Design Technologies that Support Student Creativity

Daniel Tillman; Shaunna Smith; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 182–187

This roundtable discusses research on the utilization of innovative digital design technologies to support interdisciplinary education, such as contextualized mathematics education within music themed activities. As an example, the 2013 “World Music ...

Topics: Creativity, Digital Fabrication

Fail Again, Fail Better: Contextual factors that influence creativity in technology mediated learning contexts

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; Shaunna Smith; Michael DeSchryver; Chris Fahnoe; Colin Terry; William Cain; Jonathon Good

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1892–1897

This symposium addresses issues of the kinds of technology-mediated contexts that support creativity. An additional theme is that of how the idea of failure can prompt the creative process. Presenters in this symposium will describe the theoretical, ...

Topics: Creativity

Building Multidisciplinary Connections: Intersections of Content, Creativity, and Digital Fabrication Technologies

Shaunna Smith; Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; David Slykhuis; Curby Alexander; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Church; Adam Goodman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2506–2510

This symposium seeks to address how various digital fabrication technologies can be integrated for authentic experiential learning that nurtures creativity and fosters the development of multidisciplinary connections. With the unique ability to...

Topics: Creativity, Engineering Education, Digital Fabrication

(In)disciplined Creativity in Teacher Education

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; John C. Park; John Lee; Joe Garofalo; Carl Young; Douglas Hartman; Sara Kajder; William Cain

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1887–1891

Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). There is a strong, and generally agreed-upon conviction on the relevance and necessity of creativity...

Topics: Creativity

Do 21st Century Learning Environments Support Self-Directed Learning? Middle School Students’ Response to an Intentionally Designed Learning Environment

Chris Fahnoe; Punya Mishra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3131–3139

21st Century Learning Frameworks identify Self-Directed Learning (SDL) as a being a critical skill for students yet little empirical research is available. This mixed-methods study focuses on self-directed learning skills by middle school students...

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Development of Turkish Pre-service Teachers of English

Gokce Kurt; Punya Mishra; Zeynep Kocoglu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 5073–5077

Changes having occurred in the field of education have affected the body of knowledge that teachers need to promote successful language learning of their students (van Olphen, 2008). The present study aims to examine the TPACK development of Turkish ...

Breaking Disciplinary Boundaries in 21st Century Learning: Creative Teaching with Digital Technologies: Part 2

Punya Mishra; Chris Fahnoe; Danah Henriksen; Kristen Kereluik; Mike DeSchryver; Sean Leahy; Laura Terry; Leigh Graves Wolf

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4210–4215

This symposium addresses issues of creativity in the 21st century - specifically dealing with a framework we suggest is beneficial to teaching creatively with technology. The overarching framework of trans-disciplinary thinking deals with meta-level ...