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 n...
Posts from November 2015
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 ...
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 adv...
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 o...
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) “Standar...
Learning Environments - Week 8 - Reading Assignment
Assignment “Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things”, Edwin Hutchins, 2006 “A sociohistorical approach to remediation”, Michael Cole and Peg Griffin, 1986 Response ”… the insight that...
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...
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...
Tech 4 Learners - Week 8 - Reading Assignment
Reading: “Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels”, Hiroshi Ishi, 2008 - MIT Media Lab Response: Tangible interfaces can express information regular screens cannot. The TUIs act upon senses other than s...
HCI Seminar - Week 7 - Class Notes
Sean Follmer,Stanford University. His MIT profile has more content. “Designing Material Interfaces: Redefining Interaction through Programmable Materials and Tactile Displays” inFORM - Interac...