Punya Mishra

TL;DR: “There’s two aspects of education, knowledge and skills, Curiosity is how children acquire knowledge, play is how they acquire skills.”

TL;DR: The Deep-Play Research Group as discussed by the authors have been writing an ongoing series, BRethinking Technology and Creativity in the 21st Century^ around issues of creativity in 21st century educational contexts.

TL;DR: The Deep-Play Research group is a loose collective of faculty and graduate students at Arizona State University and Michigan State University as mentioned in this paper, who have focused on the cons t ruc t o f Bf low^ (Csikszentmihalyi 1996) to explore how this state of mind and way of working contributes to creativity, particularly in the domain of writing.

TL;DR: Mcintock as discussed by the authors describes the life story of Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist and Nobel Laureate, who worked for decades to unravel the mysteries of genetics, but the discovery of DNA and the ensuing focus on molecular biology meant that her methods of inquiry and research, which were often naturalistic and based on observation of the effects of gene expression, lost their sheen.

TL;DR: It is argued that the design of the course Web site needs to carefully reflect the passions and pedagogical philosophy that drive the instructor and an argument against one–size–fits–all approaches to online course design as instantiated in most course management systems.