Prompt What your report should have An introduction, in which you state the issue you are interested in (1-3 pages). This could an improved version of the essay that you did for week 3 (or pieces of...
I was called upon to act in two group’s films for a d.school class Matej and Shelly are taking. Film making is hard work! 1pm till 10pm! Films will be shown on Sunday at 7pm. Here’s one of the sev...
During the lab session all the 7 teams joined their contraptions to create a “Rube Goldberg Machine”. Hard to coordinate all of them but for the most part it worked and everyone certainly learned ...
This week the reading group (Camila, Anastasia, Edrik) presented a summary of the week’s readings - Freire & Blikstein. We then did a group exercise on creating a new makerspace - our group’s con...
Edrick, Camila, James, Sherry, and Corinne came over to my place to talk about EdTech Adoption in schools. Cooked Chicken Stogonoff for the first time following some YouTube recipees - it worked! Adop...
Went to Barron Elementary School today to observe their Maker Space. Barron is a public school with around 300 students - supposedly the ’ poorest’ school in the district… if this is the poorest...
We had the honor to have one of the authors from - “Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil” by Harbison and Hanushek (1992) and David Plank who wrote a review ab...
Today we went over the research papers we read about Math PD. We reconstructed the LHS framework through the lens of different researchers - hard mental exercice but gave us a good grip on the differe...
Great class again lead by our ‘master-teacher’ Denise Pope. Housekeeping Group sites - arrange a meeting Write your Curriculum Rationale (see photo) Be aware of your site’s ideology for curric...
Short summary of Ralph Tyler’s Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Four fundamental questions to be answered when developing any curriculum What educational purposes should the school s...