Class started with a great discussion led by Tanner Vea.
Divided class into 3 groups. Each group was given a text to read and then present to the class. Ana and I presented.
They were also filming our class for a promotional video for the GSE.
We then had the “Who Am I?” talks from:
I’m up next week!!
Assignment:
Scholarship Briefs
Take two learning problem proposed in class (your own AND someone else’s). Research them in the literature, and extend it based on at least 2-3 scholarly sources. One should provide data about what is currently known about the learning “problem,” another should suggest a possible approach to designing a solution. Enrich your learning problem statements using information you find and add citations to your sources. Post your updated “problems” here.
Response
Alex is a motivated young developer who wants to teach people how to program for the new AppleTV OS that recently came out. He has never taught before and thinks that offering this course online will supplement his income.
He has looked at several MOOCS, online courses, course marketplaces, YouTube videos and other several examples he found online. He feels like he does not know where to start in creating, organizing and delivering the course material.
How will he engage with the students? How will the students help each other? How will he handle student’s questions? How will he assess if his teaching is effective? How will he track the progress of all of the students?
To address this challenge he could use frameworks such as Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and SAMR Model to guide him through the process.
Resources providing data about what is currently known about the difficulties and frustrations in creating and managing online courses:
Resources providing possible approaches to designing a solution:
Worked some more on generating ideas today.
Project with OMS taking the following shape:
Needs Statement
“A” is a shy pleaser who needs to practice creating his own words in order to facilitate him communicating with others.
Prototypes
Stimulate “A” to generate words by watching engaging videos he can relate to.
Questions to ask:
Some initial videos:
Harlem Globetrotters
Hot Wheels
Back up plan:
Cartoons where he will fill in the blanks typing in the missing text then repeating what he wrote.
So the night before this class I was watching “Race to Nowhere” – a documentary about “Transforming education from the ground up” – and there was my professor for this class: Denise Pope 🙂
The class as usual was very interactive, group and pair discussions about subjectivity in the process of observation, analysis and reporting.
Class Notes
Class Discussion
This is our next homework!
Ok – now I am starting to enjoy the class 🙂
Started with a memorization exercise – a poem by LEWIS CARROLL was presented and we would need to recite it later:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
Then we broke out into groups and discussed “Drone regulation: how and why” followed by a group discussion and Dr. Roy Pea talking about Piaget, Vygotsky et all… was amazing.
The ‘Reading Czars’ led an awesome activity with the class. Saw that I actually have a knack to thinking of learning problems – for 6 grade math at least… kkk
Went to my appointment to get MMR vaccines and TB test… apparently “Triplice Viral” is not MMR. Strange that I do not have records of these vaccines since I’ve came to the US twice before to study… Anyway – all set now. Just have to get the result of the blood work and get the second shot in 30 days.
Had a great talk with Petr Johanes about the Lytics Lab, working in the US, professional roles, PhD and so on…
Had the honor to interview Candace Marie Thille and Anna Porteus
Amazing opportunity – what I got most out of it was a ‘confirmation’ that most online EdTech tools do not provide any coaching or tutoring for experts, practitioners, subject matter experts in the process of creating courses or sharing knowledge.
Notes
Great class today – looking further into our research about how to make “A” generate more words.
Another great class today – glad to have been able to do all the reading and participate well in class.
We were talking about the knowledge teachers need to have in order to teach well. We also looked at a common core math handbook and analyzed it from a teachers point of view.
Some more exercises
We also got this back for our reference…
