LDT Seminar - Master's Project Milestone Assignment
Prompts Approach: Theories There are several different “approaches” to address in your proposal. One is your theoretical perspective on the challenge you address. What approach to…
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Teacher PD - Week 5 - Reading Notes
Borko, H., Jacobs, J., Seago, N. & Mangram, C. (2014). Facilitating video-based professional development: Planning and orchestrating productive discussions. In Y. Li, E.A.Silver & …
Acting in Films
So here are the amazing results of a 10 day film class at the d.School that Matej and Shelley participated in. I was the mere actor in it but was great to be involved in film makin…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 4 - Makerspace Observation Assignment
Prompt What your report should have An introduction, in which you state the issue you are interested in (1-3 pages). This could an improved version of the essay that you did for …
I became an actor!
I was called upon to act in two group’s films for a d.school class Matej and Shelly are taking. Film making is hard work! 1pm till 10pm! Films will be shown on Sunday at 7pm. Here’…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 4 - Class Notes 2
During the lab session all the 7 teams joined their contraptions to create a “Rube Goldberg Machine”. Hard to coordinate all of them but for the most part it worked and everyone ce…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 4 - Class Notes 1
This week the reading group (Camila, Anastasia, Edrik) presented a summary of the week’s readings - Freire & Blikstein. We then did a group exercise on creating a new makerspace -…
EdClub - dinner at my place
Edrick, Camila, James, Sherry, and Corinne came over to my place to talk about EdTech Adoption in schools. Cooked Chicken Stogonoff for the first time following some YouTube recipe…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 4 - Maker Space Observation
Went to Barron Elementary School today to observe their Maker Space. Barron is a public school with around 300 students - supposedly the ’ poorest’ school in the district… if this …
Brazilian Education - Week 4 - Class Notes
We had the honor to have one of the authors from - “Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil” by Harbison and Hanushek (1992) and David Plank who wr…