• One Christmas when I was a little bonehead in 1st or 2nd grade, I got a chemistry set.  It came in a triptych-like case that unfolded with rows [...]

  Adding time travel to a teacher’s bag of tricks

  April 29, 2013
• Angry Birds.  Undoubtedly one of the most addictive time-sink video games ever produced.  If you haven’t played, you should.  Aside from [...]

  F = ma, Angry Physics

  April 15, 2013
• I would be remiss to not reference Lev Vygotsky, a long dead but genius dead Russian psychologist who has been one step and the better part of a [...]

  What would Vygotsky have thought of Play Station 4?

  April 11, 2013
• I took a trip to the app store and window-shopped educational apps.  There’s good news and bad news.  You know this educational gap [...]

  A trip to the app store: in search of pathways of discovery

  March 5, 2013

• Returning again to the FoldIt game. Here’s the computational problem: finding the solution is really really hard. Okay, more precisely, there [...]

  FoldIt II: Human and machine heuristics, veering off the beaten path

  October 10, 2011
• Okay, I have to say from the outset, I haven’t actually played this game.  My doctoral thesis involved folding proteins.  Literally.  I’d [...]

  FoldIt (part I): From trauma to awe, an (ex-) graduate student’s perspective

  September 26, 2011