Posts from May 2016

Engineering Education – Week 8.2 – Reading Notes

Engineering Education – Week 8.2 – Reading Notes

Reading:  Ambrose, “How Learning Works.” Chapter 7: “How do Students Become Self-Directed Learners?” Summary   Growth mindset keeps coming to mind obviously, along with the notion that meta...

Engineering Education – Week 9.1 – Reading Notes

Reading:  Ambrose, 2010, “How Learning Works” “Conclusion: Applying the Seven Principles to Ourselves” and “Appendices” Summary:  Loved the very practical and direct appendices and the ...

Lytics Seminar - Week 8 - Class Notes

(image unavailable) This week we discussed “Hypothesis Testing Methods at Scale” and “Causal Inference” based on the reading of “Counterfactuals and Causal Inference” by Stephen Morgan an...

Topics in Brazilian Education - Week 8 - Class Notes

(image unavailable) We had the opportunity to hear from Engin Walter Bumbacher on “Remote Biology Laboratories for Model-based Science Inquiry”  “Recent curricular frameworks (NGSS, 2013) are ...

Engineering Education - Week 6&7 Assignments

Finally catching up with the homework and blog posts… here are the assignments for the last 2 weeks: EdTech Game Critique Assignment Empirical cognitive task analysis Learning Outcomes Assess...

Engineering Education - Week 8.1 - Reading Notes

Engineering Education - Week 8.1 - Reading Notes

Ambrose, 2007, Chapter 3: “What Factors Motivate Students to Learn?” Motivation -> towards a goal Subjective: values of the goals Expectancies: what do you expect out of it Goals Multiple ...

2 day update

Full days! May 12 Started early at the DMV where I got a renewed temporary license while Homeland Security verifies my legal status in the US… it’s been 5 months… did I do something wrong? Heheh...

Big Update

Big Update

This past week has been crazy with a change in my Master’s project and searching for a job. I was unable to keep up with the blog postings so I decided today to do a quick overview of the past week...

Brazilian Education - Week 6 - Class Notes

*(image unavailable)*We had the honor of being lecture by Claudia Costin, the Senior Director of Global Education at the World Bank and the previous Secretary of Education of the city of Rio de Janeir...