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LDT Seminar – Week 5 – Scholarship Briefs

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:

Tech 4 Learners – Week 5 – Class Notes

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.

  1. Teacher explains that they are going to play a game of making the video even better by adding new  words to it.
  2. Teacher selects a video of interest from YouTube
  3. Teacher puts headphones on herself and starts a narrating session to model the behavior.
  4. Teacher puts headphone on A so that he can listen to the video with the narration.
  5. Teacher prompts A to do his own recording and starts a narration session.
  6. A listens to narrated video.
  7. Option to save session or go again.
  8. A is prompted to choose another video to narrate

Questions to ask:

    • Does he follow any sport on TV?
    • What does he like to watch on YouTube?
    • Does he verbalize while watching videos?
    • Is he comfortable wearing headphones?
    • How well does he type?
    • How well does he use an iPad on his own?
    • What Apps does he use if any?
    • Does he listen to music?
    • Does he sing?
    • Can he describe objects when prompted?
    • What are ‘easy’ things for him to do?
    • What are the things that seem ‘hard’ for him to do?
    • Does he say no when he does not want or like something?

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.

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Qualitative Research – Week 5 – Class Notes

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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

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Class Discussion

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This is our next homework!

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Learning Environments – Week 5 – Class Notes

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!

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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.

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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

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Vaden Medical Center

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.

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