Beyond Bits & Atoms - Week 2 - Gears Essay Assignment
Assignment Write a “Gears” essay – a short essay on “evocative” objects from your childhood/youth which have had an important impact on your intellectual life, in the same spirit of Papert...
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Curriculum Construction - Week 2 - Reading Notes
Curriculum Construction Walker, D. (1989). Fundamentals of Curriculum. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace. pp. 2- 33. Definition of curriculum “The curriculum refers to the content and purpose of an e...
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 2 - Omnianimal
Assignment Create an animal with laser cutted plywood. Idea Make my dog… Xico Project Result Wasn’t able to print today… tomorrow will laser cut and show the result :) ...
Core Mechanics - bye bye
Decided to drop (not take) Core Mechanics - although the topic is very interesting, it is not a requirement for me since I alredy took Understanding Learning Environments and because it is heavily bas...
Core Mechanics - Weew 2.1 - Class Notes
Sleep help us to see or formulate patterns Memorization also is helped by time - better to study over 3 days rather than all in one day Graphs Pie charts are hard to show differences in sizes Line ...
Teacher PD - Week 2 - Class Notes
Rich discussion in class about the readings - what is are the core features and goals of transformative PD. Focus on: Classroom practice Teaching and learning of subject matter (PCK) Student learnin...
Brazilian Education - Week 2 - Class Notes
Great discussion today about ProFIS - an inclusive liberal education program (2 years) that help students get into UNICAMP led by Prof. Marcelo Knobel. Prof. Thomas Ehrlich also talked a little abou...
Jewish Contemporary Museum - NEAT exhibit
On Sunday drove into the city with Omair to visit the Drop-In Art Studio’s Maker Art and Mini Expo featuring Stanford’s LDT student projects. Unfortunately we got there a little late and weren’...
Brazilian Education - Week 2 - Reading Notes
Pedrosa, R. H., Simões, T. P., Carneiro, A. M., Andrade, C. Y., Sampaio, H., & Knobel, M. (2014). Access to higher education in Brazil. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 16(1), 5-33. Chic...
Teacher PD - Week 2 - Assignment - Reading Response
“What do you think are the most important goals of PD? Why are those goals so important?” The most important goal of PD is to teach teachers how to think. Think about their teaching, how students ...