Chris Quintana

Genius.

Congratulations! We made it off the waitlist last year and it’s been great. But do be ready for a lot of beans (with the occasional spices, hot sauce, popcorn, and other surprises).

I’ve just started using Anybox on iOS and Mac. So far, it’s working pretty well. But I enjoyed Pocket, and I’m going to miss the fact that I could read my Pocket articles on my Kobo eReader.

It’s like teaching machines all over again. I don’t think centering our educational system around Duolingo and videos, and casting teachers/schools as necessary for childcare is a good way to think about educational technology. https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/

Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue entitled "Applying Critically Complex Theories to Professional Learning With and About Advanced Technologies" in the journal of Professional Development in Education journal! We hope you will read and enjoy.

@digitalliterate.bsky.social

Knicks assistant Maurice Cheeks watches national anthem singer nail performance 22 years later On Wednesday, Natalie Zito was back in the building that changed her life, performing a stunning rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

this is cool as hell

www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...

In the midst of the rhetoric (and lies) about university finances really work, this is worth a read.

Front cover for the book “The Victorian Internet” by Tom Standage. The book’s subtitle is “The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s Online Pioneers”

Enjoyed re-reading "The Victorian Internet" about the introduction of the telegraph, which enabled greater communication, shrunk the distances between us, and led to many experiences we see today online. Fairly quick and interesting read. #TechHistory #Internet #Technology

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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

The front cover of a show program for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in front of the stage as patrons file in pre-show.

Time for our annual meet-up with the gang from Jazz at Lincoln Center! A terrific show, as always, this past weekend.

Sticking around here mostly, but probably some shorter travel throughout. Catching up on a big stack of reading (design and design ed, AI). Maybe learning some Swift just to do some coding. And some more cooking and learning the board games on our “to play” shelf.

Same here! (Well, after grades are done next week.)

In the past, we tried to organize by main mechanism or by designer (e.g., the Feld and Rosenberg sections), but it got tricky. For this current re-org, we just decided to shelve everything in alphabetical order by title. That saved some cognitive energy we can apply to gaming.

A frustrating college football season feels way better today. Go Blue!!

It’s like when my course comments include ”lectures too much, want more activity” & “too many activities, want more lecture”, all in the same course! Interesting article, especially for my classes when many undergrads equate a class solely with lectures, & any deviation from that causes anxiety.

Red box for a Zamboni gravy boat being held in front of a view of a hockey arena.

Hockey night in Detroit…Red Wings took it on the chin, but the Zamboni gravy boats might be one of the greatest game giveaways ever.

The Victorian Internet A new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-th…

Enjoyed re-reading The Victorian Internet. It looks at the telegraph, and how that launched a communications network with many of the promises & drawbacks we see with the Internet, plus parallels like instant news, spam, romance, encryption (sort of), & information overload.

Hello! I'm a faculty member at the University of Michigan. I mix human-computer interaction, learning sciences, computing, & design to explore new learning experiences. I love games (yes...I teach a course on gaming and learning), & how we can use tech and media to make positive change in the world.