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 …
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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…
Teacher PD - Week 4 - Class Notes
Today we went over the research papers we read about Math PD. We reconstructed the LHS framework through the lens of different researchers - hard mental exercice but gave us a good…
Curriculum Construction - Week 4 - Class Notes
Great class again lead by our ‘master-teacher’ Denise Pope. Housekeeping Group sites - arrange a meeting Write your Curriculum Rationale (see photo) Be aware of your site’s ideol…
Curriculum Construction - Week 4 - Reading Notes
Short summary of Ralph Tyler’s Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Four fundamental questions to be answered when developing any curriculum What educational purposes s…