The Dish
Went for a walk at The Dish and ran into a very nice couple – she’s from Brazil and he works at Facebook.
LDT Seminar – Week 1 – Class Notes
In today’s class we went over the general gist of the program, talked to LDTers from last year and shared our Compass Exercise (first homeworl) with the person sitting next to us.
I had the great pleasure of experiencing Matej’s pixel art version of the exercise!
UFF!! Week is almost over!
Intense week – went thru all the classes except for one tomorrow. Here they are:
- Human-Computer Interaction Studio
- Topics in Brazilian Education
- Introduction to Teaching
- Technology for Learners
- Understanding Learning Environments
- Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
I’m at the maximum number of units I can take so I’m thinking of dropping one of the classes to maintain some sanity.
The courses are quite heavy on the reading and most of them have many projects involving group work and reporting.
Posted some notes about each course below.
Tech 4 Learners – Week 1 – Class Notes
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
Professor: Denise Pope
Course Description:
“This course introduces students to core concepts and methods of qualitative research. Through a variety of hands-on learning activities, readings, field experiences, class lectures, and discussions, students will explore the processes and products of qualitative inquiry. Essential questions for the course include: What is the nature of qualitative research– and how can we, as consumers and “doers,” assess its value?”
Class Notes:
Class Exercise:
Choose a partner, and first one draws the other without lifting the pen from the paper. Then switch, but now you cannot look at the paper! I was on the second round! NO PEEKING!
Drawing of me.
My drawing:
Assignment #1
DORITOS DINAMITE!!
Ouch! People actually eat this!? Had to try it… kkk
Understanding Learning Environments
Professor: Shelley Goldman and Roy Pea (he’s part of NETP’s Technical Working Group!)
Course Description:
“This course offers a seminar experience that provides a tour through some of the primary ways in which learning has been theorized over the past several centuries. Knowing some of the basic biases, insights, and tensions of some of the traditions of learning theory is a launch pad for what you need to know as a designer of learning environments. There are many ways to structure the experiences by which we learn. We will be focusing on a few that tend to dominate in the settings and discourses of education, technology and learning sciences research.”
Another history lesson for me! Understanding where all the learning theories originated from!
HCI Studio – Cal Train Observation
Homework assignment: go and observe the CalTrain experience and capture it with sketches.
I did the first ones on the phone and took some photos since I didn’t have a sketchbook yet…
Them I went again with the proper equipment 🙂
And finally the report:
HCI – Class #2
Exercise in quick sketching
