Santanu is a research scholar at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai with a focus on Learning Sciences. His research interests lie in cognitive and sociocultural basis in learning and identity.

Computer presence as the technological fix in learning environments has met with criticism in education research — particularly on the fallacy of referring all questions about technology to the technology itself. Computers allow learners to have control over their learning through creation of literacies. Such outcomes do not get recorded through positivist inquiries into learning. In this talk, I will track particular scholarly conversations along this critique which have shaped conceptual perspectives in computing and STEM education research. I emphasize that questions of computing education should identify themselves with the cultural practices around the technology through the polyphonous experiences of the learners.

Asad Ali Junaid is currently with Adobe Inc. as an Experience Designer.

Junaid has worked for about fifteen in the creative field as an Experience Designer in companies such as Oracle, IBM, Intel, among others. He has MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Human Factors Psychology.

Junaid is also an entrepreneur and an author of an epistolary novel. He has several teaching credits and regularly teaches and conducts workshops on HCI and Creativity.

Creativity is at the core of modern innovation and entrepreneurship. Creativity is also closely coupled with the kind of work Designers and HCI Practitioners are involved in.

The biggest challenge that organizations face while embracing creativity is that there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward method to measure expertise in creativity among its employees. It is important to measure creativity to evaluate the creative competence of an individual or a group of people. Without the ability to measure or quantify, it would be difficult to form an opinion to make decisions. Once creativity is measurable, it can be managed. And if creativity can be managed, then organizations the world over can enable and make creativity ‘happen’.

Deepshikha is a doctoral research student at IDC school of Design at IITB, India.

Her passion lies in reading which she extends beyond books to people, communities and places. Her current area of research lies in design innovation , storytelling, foresight and mobility.

Freakonomics is a stimulating, provoking and entertaining book that encourages readers to assume nothing and question everything. Through well-chosen examples, it distinguishes between causation and correlation while stressing on the importance of incentives in decision-making. Combining the keen observation skills of a brilliant rogue economist and the writing skills of an award winning author and journalist, this book helps readers filter the excessive noise around them so as to really understand – why things are as they are.