Teacher PD - Week 9 - Class Notes
Good class today - we discussed the different ways to scale Teacher PD programs and had the first Group Project Presentation. ...
Posts from February 2016
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 8 - Reading Notes
Eyeo 2014 - Leah Buechley Thinking about Making Humans are natural makers Demographics Predominantly men and white or asian Has nothing changed? Maker’s movement promise not achieved Does no...
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 8 - Class Notes
Partnered up with Jasmine Park for the final project - great teamwork :) Here’s what we presented: And the report: Also took a lot of notes on paper… no time to type them up now… ...
Curriculum Construction - Week 8 - Class Notes
First half - peer review of curriculum Second half - talks from FOSS and Sara W. ...
Teacher PD - Week 8 - Class Notes
Groups of 4 discussed the readings. My group discussed Heller: Heller: Differential Effects of Three Professional Development Models on Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Elementary Science ...
Curriculum Construction - Week 8 - Reading Notes
Eisner, E. (April 2002). The Kind of Schools We Need. Phi Delta Kappan, pp. 576-583. Education is not a science (more of an art) and assessments can’t be void of judgment “Artistry and professio...
Teacher PD - Week 8 - Reading Notes
Heller, J.I., Daehler, K.R., Wong, N., Shinohara, M., & Maritrix, L.W. (2012). Differential effects of three professional development models on teacher knowledge and student achievement in elementary ...
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 7 - Class Notes
Based on our reading, class was split into the ‘minimal instruction’ group and the ‘constructionism’ group. We had to come up with a Lesson Plan for teaching fractions to 5th graders… intere...
HCI Lecture - Interactive Systems for Learning Programming at Scale
(image unavailable) Went to a very interesting lecture by Philip Guo from University of Rochester “Interactive Systems for Learning Programming at Scale”. He’s the creator of pythontutor...
LDT Seminar - Week 7 - Next steps & Appendices: Time, Money, People Assignemnt
Prompt Appendices are for anything else you think you need to share with your reader, in case they’re interested. I am asking you for a draft timeline, budget, and a list of collaborators and suppor...