Posts from October 2015

Learning Environments - Week 3 - Class Notes

Learning Environments - Week 3 - Class Notes

Class Notes Notes Followup: Half the class went outside to go and build things with some play material (my group). The other group stayed inside and watched videos about building things. We all came...

Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Class Notes

Presentation by Prof. Martin Carnoy - interesting debate about how you cannot compare the US as a whole with other countries since each state and in some cases, municipalities have their own education...

Tech 4 Learners - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Tech 4 Learners - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Reading:  In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids’ Lives Reed Stevens, Tom Satwicz, Laurie McCarthy (2008) Notes: Response: “How designers could perhaps l...

Qualitative Research - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Qualitative Research - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Reading:  Geertz, C. (1973). “Thick Description, “The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. pp.3-30. Taylor, S., & Bogdan, R. (1998). “Participant Observation, In the Field,”...

Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Reading Assignment

Reading:  “EDUCATION POLICY BEGINS AT HOME: WHY DIFFERENCES IN STUDENT PERFORMANCE AMONG U.S. STATES ARE MORE USEFUL FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY THAN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS” Martin Carnoy - Stanfo...

APA Style

APA Style

Just found out about APA Style - a format for academic documents such as research papers, journal articles, books, and so on. For one of our assignments has to be written in that style. Found a Gre...

LDT Seminar - Class Notes

LDT Seminar - Class Notes

Good session again today. Who am I? sessions started. We had that pleasure to listen to: Matej Jan - funny - here’s his Colin - languages MingMing - motivational On the second half of the class we...