As usual, a dynamic class. Looked at making learning easier.
Lots of ideas about A’s project – we were able to schedule a meeting with OMS tomorrow so had to run with building the prototype.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Learning Environments – Week 8 – Class Notes
We drew mind maps of all the learning theories we read in class – amazing peek into how other people think and organize their cognition.
Here’s mine followed by Matej’s.
Reading Czars ruled again today – great group activity – Group pictionary
PhD information session
Attended an informational session about what the process of applying to a PhD looks like.
You have to find a professor who will be your research mentor. Usually you will not work at the institution you got your PhD from since you’re an expert in a field already ‘covered’ by your mentor.
Tech 4 Learners – Week 8 – Class Notes
As usual, a dynamic class. Did a group exercise to talk within our groups and share what we thought of each other… celebrate something they did looking back. Looking forward, what constructive advice could you give?
Intro to Teaching – Week 8 – Class Notes
We talked about classroom management and about our next assignment in class.
No notes or pictures but great class.
Correction- took notes on the iPhone:
Intro to Teaching
Nov 10
Class Notes
Homework next week – position paper – can cite from any reading
Questions for instructors
- How does all this apply to higher level teaching?
- Professional Development / Teacher Credential Programs
East House – Teacher Credential Programs – 5:30 – 7:00pm
How did Lampert establish norms to teach the math content?
Proactive classroom management – set norms to be able to get good behavior
“These kids must be gifted”
Classroom management
Video Review: what are the types of management techniques are being used?
- gives them a method to write down
- Write the 4 down
- Write 3 sub-items for each
- Write the 4 down
- walks around verifying if they are having problems
- share with neighbor to discuss ideas
- “anyone want to add to that?”
- promotes individual decision-making – why – made them think
- discuss with group
- mediated discussion – now you reply
- as a result of this discussion – reflect
- what we learned – is that you yourselves com up with discussions and good questions
Behavior management
-> I didn’t say that parents were at fault but that teaching is parenting to the nth power
Video analysis
Kids do well if they want to.
- Your role will be to figure out what he wants.
- Could be potentially dangerous if you work on the wrong ‘want’.
Kids do well if they can.
- Your role is to make sure that you help there is nothing on the way.
- Collaborative problem solving.
- Try to find together with the kid what the underlying issue is to find out what is getting in the way of getting them there.
Restorative justice
- as opposed to zero tolerance
- talk to the kid – empathize with their victim
Audio media about Restorative Justice
- kids are a long term project
Brazilian Education – Week 8 – Class Notes
We listened to Luana Marotta, a fellow Lemann Fellow, present her dissertation’s rough draft. She is a PhD candidate in International Comparative Education admitted in 2012.
Her research looks at the causes of dropout rates in high schools and is finding that it has a lot to do with retention – in other words, the chances of a student dropping out after he repeats a grade are significant.
Tech 4 Learners – Week 8 – Assignment Revised Point of View
Assignment
Round 2! What is your new and improved Point of View?
Response
Our point of view has stayed the same – after these weeks of work, we really want to continue working with Achu and work on the same learning goals.
HMW support ACHU generate more words and even sentences?
We have three new prototypes that we are excited to see working with him this week:
- First, we want to build on our previous video narration idea. However, we also want to incorporate the protégé effect, and the idea that while Achu might not find it always natural to speak for himself, but might find it compelling to speak if it is to speak to someone else/to help someone else.
For this idea, we are creating a character who will introduce themselves to Achu, and explain that they absolutely need Achu’s help to describe what is on the screen below because they cannot see. First, they will ask Achu to describe a picture, then we will ask Achu to describe a video.
This is meant to be a scaffolded exercise, and we maintain the idea of recording Achu as in previous prototypes and play that back to him.
- Based on Marina’s feedback, we want to build on Achu’s strengths, one of which is the ability to solve/put-together puzzle pieces really well. We are designing a game that requires Achu to put together sentences, where each word is on a puzzle piece that only fits with the others in certain ways.
- We want to test out an existing cat app with Achu, popular among children, whereby one speaks to the app, your voice is recorded and the cat replays it as if you spoke it. Beyond the entertainment value, we want to test this out to see if this might work as a warm-up exercise for Achu to generate more words. We also want to test our hypothesis that hearing his own words will give Achu a better sense of the value of his own words.
Electric Wheel
So I am transforming my wife’s tricycle into an electric one. Bought a front wheel with an brushless electric motor, the controller, accelerator and breaks BUT it came with no batteries! So now I am talking to some battery manufacturers to get the correct battery (Voltage, Amps per Hour, Capacity and so on…) and the right connectors and casing for it. Getting there 🙂
Qualitative Research – Week 8 – Reading Assignment
Assignment
- “Reporting Ethnography to informants”, Page, Samson, Crockett (1998)
- “On Seeking –and Rejecting– Validity in Qualitative Research”, Wolcott, Eisner, Peshkin (1990)
- “Standards for Reporting on Empirical Social Science Research”, AERA (2006).
- “Qualitative Analysis on Stage: Making the Research Process More Public.”, Anfara, Brown, Mangione (2002)
Notes
Be my Manatee
A play on words from the popular TV show 30 Rock – NBC.com “I will be your mentor, and you my manatee”.
Idea that has been brewing after I found the app Be My Eyes…
Why not a Be my Nerd? Be my Mechanic? Be my Stylist?
When you want help, you want it from a person, right then and there – you don’t want to search on Google and sift through thousands of pages, videos and tutorials that do not apply to you.
You want to get an expert on the phone and show them what is going on…
Open the app, choose a problem category and the system will start ringing the experts – once one picks up, your session starts.
Thought the expert was helpful? Donate some money for his time – he will be very thankful – and you’ll be able to call him back if necessary.