Posts from January 2016

Curriculum Construction - Week 3 - Reading Notes

Bruner, J. (1960). The Process of Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  pp. 1-32, 43-54. An Alternative Vision Education planned for relations people might establish Community’s interes...

Brazilian Education - Week 3 - Reading Notes

Brazilian Education This week’s readings were about Engineering education in Brazil. Main take-aways: Poor STEM education in high-schools Curriculum is too theoretical and lacks ‘soft-skills’ t...

Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 3 - SkyMall Prototype

Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 3 - SkyMall Prototype

SkyMall Prototype - Lucas & Omair, Jan 2016 Initial Brainstorm Use iRobot-Create2 (Romba without cleaning stuff) to make a modern day LOGO Turtle SkyMall product - add on for the Romba Attach pen t...

Beyond Bits & Atoms - Week 3 - Reading Notes

Ackermann, E. (2001). Piaget’s constructivism, Papert’s constructionism: What’s the difference.Future of learning group publication, 5(3), 438. Chicago “And if we believe, as Piaget and Paper...

LDT Seminar - Week 2 - Class Notes

For next week: practice your 60 second pitch selling yourself and your project idea. Karin - Foothill College center for innovation Idea - assess what teachers already know before presenting tool - ev...

Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 2 - Class Notes

Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 2 - Class Notes

Education = QWERTY Skinner’s Teaching Machine - first ed tech? Monday - Someday : how does all this apply once Monday comes? If a surgeon goes back 100 years he/she will not recognize a surgery r...

Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 2 - Reading Notes

Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. Basic Books, Inc.. Introduction, Chapter 1 & 2 Instrumental use of the computer As a tool, but does not inherently change our ...

Curriculum Construction - Week 2 - Class Notes

Curriculum Construction - Week 2 - Class Notes

Pitch Public Speaking Skills Curriculum High School (11th, 12th) Housekeeping Group formation - through cocktail - by the end of class Sherry - college application help Mindfulness to get rid of t...