Posts from November 2015

Brazilian Education - Week 9 - Class Notes

Brazilian Education - Week 9 - Class Notes

Today we hear Rebecca Tarlau talk about her upcoming book “Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: Public Education Reform and Social Movement-led Participatory Governance” - based on her ethnographi...

Learning Environments - Week 9 - Reading Assignment

Assignment “Situated Learning” by Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger - dense! Response “Viewing learning as legitimate peripheral participation means that learning is not merely a condition for memb...

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Class Notes

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Class Notes

Talked about what we have learned in this process of designing for a real person, and what we will have to present at the end of the quarter… wow… quarter is almost over! Talked to Alex and Soren ...

Intro Teaching - Week 9 - Reading Notes

Intro Teaching - Week 9 - Reading Notes

Topic The Politics of Teaching and Teacher Evaluation: What are the political hot-buttons in teaching? Who are the stakeholders and what are their perspectives? How should teachers be evaluated? Assi...

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Reading Assignment

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Reading Assignment

Assignment:  Choose one of the four NMC Horizon Reports for 2015 that is of interest to you.  Each one has a link to the wiki where the work was produced.  For your chosen report, explore the tre...

NMC Horizon Reports 2015 - Higher Education

NMC Horizon Reports 2015 - Higher Education

NMC Horizon Reports are published every year about global issues, trends, and initiatives in education. I read the 2015 Higher Education paper: here’s a very broad summary of the findings. CHALLEN...

Intro Teaching - Week 9 - Assignment Position Paper

Intro Teaching - Week 9 - Assignment Position Paper

Went to the park to do most of the reading for this assignment : ) Assignment: Take a position on a current controversial issue in education. Choose one of the following: Flipped Classroom Gifted Ed...

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Assignment Group Meeting

Met up with Alex to talk about the next steps in terms of the high fidelity prototype and what we should put in our final 2 minute video presentation and report. Prototype: Add your own words, phrase...

Tech 4 Learners - Week 9 - Assignment Prototype 2

Assignment  Share what you are building / testing. Response SAL (Soren, Alex, Lucas) - Achu As we mentioned last time, we had three new prototypes that we showed Achu for our third and final visit. P...