Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 3 - Maker Movement / Makerspace essay
FabLabs in schools and professional development: how to do it? FabLabs in schools provide an unique opportunity for teacher professional development, in all disciplines. They may p…
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Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Class Notes
Todays class was lead by Eduardo Zancul, POLI: **“**Engineering Education in Brazil: current issues and initiatives” by - USP Internal talk about pedagogy and quality of learnin…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 3 - SkyMall prototype
Here’s our initial cardboard prototype and the Lase Cutter in action… tonight we’ll have the product in wood and with decorations made with the Vinyl Cutter. …
Curriculum Construction - Week 3 - Ideology Presentation
Today each group presented one of the curriculum ideologies: Religious Orthodoxy Rational Humanism Progressivism Critical Theory Cognitive Pluralism Care (Noddings) Our group was…
Curriculum Construction - Week 3 - Reading Notes
Bruner, J. (1960). The Process of Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 1-32, 43-54. An Alternative Vision Education planned for relations people might establish Co…
Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Reading Notes
Brazilian Education This week’s readings were about Engineering education in Brazil. Main take-aways: Poor STEM education in high-schools Curriculum is too theoretical and lacks ‘…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 3 - SkyMall Prototype
SkyMall Prototype - Lucas & Omair, Jan 2016 Initial Brainstorm Use iRobot-Create2 (Romba without cleaning stuff) to make a modern day LOGO Turtle SkyMall product - add on for the …
Beyond Bits & Atoms - Week 3 - Reading Notes
Ackermann, E. (2001). Piaget’s constructivism, Papert’s constructionism: What’s the difference.Future of learning group publication, 5(3), 438. Chicago “And if we believe, as Piag…
LDT Seminar - Week 2 - Class Notes
For next week: practice your 60 second pitch selling yourself and your project idea. Karin - Foothill College center for innovation Idea - assess what teachers already know before …
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 2 - OmniAnimal Assignment
After quite a few sketches and a bunch of prototypes on cardboard, the final version o Xico came out. …