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Meeting with Advisor

Met on Thursday with Paulo Blikstein, my academic advisor.

Interesting insights about Silicon Valley’s EdTech market and Bay Area culture.

Explored the PhD route and potential activities in Brasil.

Talked about internship at his lab in the winter quarter. Create my own idea – AppleTV OS?

Tech 4 Learners – Week 4 – Assignment Visit 1

Assignemt:

Submit at least one response per group.  Please include the following:

 Team Name, Your Names

_________________  (Adjectives, Noun) needs to _____________________ (Verb),

(because/while/surprisingly) __________________________________________________.

How might we __________________________________________________?

Response:

S.A.L. (Soren, Alex, Lucas)

  • “A” is a shy pleaser who needs to practice creating his own words in order to facilitate him communcating with others. 

Previous versions

  • Achu needs to express himself because today, without expressing himself, he cannot advocate for himself, and communicate with peers, caretakers and educators, and he cannot advance his learning.  How might we find new ways for Achu to express himself?
  • Achu needs to verbalize his thoughts because today, without verbalizing his thoughts, he cannot advocate for himself, and communicate with peers, caretakers and educators, and he cannot advance his learning.  How might we find ways to support Achu to verbalize his thoughts?
  • Achu needs to initiate conversations because today, without initiating conversations, he cannot advocate for himself, and communicate with peers, caretakers and educators, and he cannot advance his learning.  How might we find ways to support Achu to initiate conversations?
  • Achu needs to produce more words because he will get better at getting from thought to word formation. How might we find new ways for Achu to produce more words?
  • Achu needs to initiate activities on his own, because he would be able to practice and learn more, and derive more pleasure from things, How might we help Achu initiate more activities on his own?
  • Achu needs to be supported in initiating activities, because by initiating activities (reading, doing etc.) he would be able to practice and learn more, and derive more pleasure from things, How might we support Achu to initiate activities?
  • Achu needs to feel that he can initiate activities in a comforting way/without being judged, because Achu wants to please and he might be afraid that others will be mad at him if he does somoething they do not like.How might we help Achu feel more confident that he will not displease anyone with new activiites?

How Might We

  • HMW help him say more words
  • HMW motivate him to want to communicate
  • HMW stimulate him to produce original words 
  • HMW make him comfortable sharing words with others
  • HMW make him feel like his words have value

Gallup Strength Finder

Took the Gallup Strength Finder as part of EdCareer’s program to prepare us better for the workplace.  You answer a series of questions and they determine your top 5 characteristics amongst 34 listed below. My top 5 were:

  1. Learner
  2. Achiever
  3. Self-Assurance
  4. Responsibility
  5. Restorative

Full Reports: Report and Action Plan

Very impressed with the results… key phrases I liked from the report:

  • You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence.
  • Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate classes.
  • This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential.
  • You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself.
  • You know that you are able—able to take risks, able to meet new challenges, able to stake claims, and, most important, able to deliver.

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Tech 4 Learners – Week 4 – Reading Assignment

Assignment:

Choose, and read, any two project reports from the LDT 15 collection on the Stanford Digital Repository (sdr.stanford.edu).  In preparation for class, consider the following questions:

  1. Who needs to learn what?  Why?
  2. To what extent did this solution address that problem?
  3. How did the author(s) leverage research to inform, inspire, and perhaps justify the problem and the project?

Response:

“Aptitude”, Bryan Quintanilla, 2015 – report | video

“Training Computer Science Instructors”, Mikala Streeter, 2015 – report – project

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Qualitative Research – Week 4 – Reading Notes

Lot’s of reading today!! Around 60 pages of double pages pages – lots of pages.

Very interesting material – makes me wonder if that is a career path – Qualitative Research 🙂

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Assignment:

“Making Words Fly, Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction.” – Glesne, C., & Peshkin, A (1992) – White Plains, NY: Longman. pp. 63-92.

“Interviewing, Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies.” – Weiss, R. (1994) – NY: Free Press. pp. 61-83, 107 – 115.

Notes: 

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