Participipated in a cool hands on session on Fuse Tools – a cross platform mobile development toolset.
Bike Fenders
Today I was finally able to test out the new beautifully designed fenders for my bike… drizzling on the way to school and back… full of puddles and wet floor. Fenders worked great keeping at bay the water that flies off the spinning tires… not to mention that they are light, solid, silent and gorgeous 🙂
Big Bird on campus :)
Learning Environments – Week 10 – Mind Map
Got all the post its from our group meeting, typed them up and created some mind maps… grouping is coming along but I’m thinking about applying the learning theories to the environment I was observing previously.
Watson
No divide between man and brute
Locke
Experience Sense Perception
Blank slate
Association
“Smoothing of paths” – learning
Learning with the World
Embodied cognition
Learn through senses
Experiential learning
Montessori
Student centered teaching
Clock metaphor – wind it instead of moving its arms
Play
Very precise language: long-thick
Self-directed
Don’t force it. Don’t correct it.
Natural curiosity
Stimuli
Make “spontaneous observers”
Guidance needed
Sense training
Experience their senses
Experiential learning
Intrinsic motivation
Mixed age grouping
Dewey
Experiential learning
Thoughts are creative & novel – can’t be communicated
Are you learning the right thing? Correct answer & actually knowing
Extrinsic – Intrinsic
“Is there anything but a problem?”
No grades
Relevance
Materials
Play
Constructivism
Piaget
Social speech – communication
Student self-discovery
Egocentric speech – useless
Children – no real social life
Teacher = guide
Developmental stages
Law of nature – universal
Peer to peer learning
Mixed age students
Elder to younger
Master – apprentice
Basso
Immersive, experiential, embodied
People learn from physical spaces
External vs internal cognition
Knowledge passed from elders
Emotional Intelligence
Wisdom from reflection and hard work
Culture, language, and physical space
Study -> Smooth <- Resilient
Exterior to Interior
Vygotsky
It was Piage himself who demonstrated “logic of action precedes logic of thought”
Egocentric speech IS useful
MKO more knowledgable other
Human and nature
ZPD
Egocentric speech – intellectual tool
Social scaffolding
Motivation to Learn
Intrinsic
Extrinsic
Lave & Wenger
Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP)
Knowledge lives outside of us / amongst us
Newcomers need old-timers.
For COP, LPP to be optimal, newcomers must have access to meaningful tasks
Technology must be invisible but visible
No center, COP alway evolving – knowledge is more complex
Formal vs. informal indoctrination
Old timers must be open to newcomers perspective
Skinner
Behavioral Engineering
Walden Two – “self-control”
Operant Conditioning
Mixed age grouping
Extrinsic to Intrinsic motivation
Relevance
Metacognition
Reinforcement
Rapid feedback
Social
Priming
Metacognition
Developmental readiness
Language
Content relevance
Teacher’s role
Cole & Griffin
Relevance
Language is a technology of mediation
Social, interpersonal
Language gives you the world twice
Hutchins
Literally external cognition
Embodied cognition
Collective intelligence – social education
McDermott & Ralley
Gestures and Intelligence
Ingenuity
Students vs readers – disconnect – good at the wrong thing
Brown
Active constructors
Multple ZPDs
Reciprocal teaching
Community of learners
Cross-age teaching
Comprehension monitoring device
Metacognition
Jigsaw
Group’s learning achievements are greater than individuals
Impoverished artificial learning environments conflicts with natural instincts
Gilmore
Creation
Children are capable linguistically
Spontaneous language creation
Learning is social
Play
Anti-Piaget
Notes on Methods 2
Next quarter I am going to start taking notes on the computer again… even though there seems to be a little extra learning when writing things down on a paper, the study and referencing back to them is a nightmare.
On one hand no copy/pasting means that I have to actually re-read and re-type the notes. On the other hand, it is really tedious to search.
Maybe a notebook that holds all the notes in chronological order might help, even though I’ve used several in the past, and they simply became a to do list where I crossed things out as they were completed. Plus it is still tedious to search through written notes.
SO – going to try to take notes directly onto the blog, making them more multimedia with links and diagrams. Let’s see
A note on method
Thought I’d might state that I alter the post dates to match the day of the subject matter, not the day I actually create the post…
Day with Matt and Liv
Got my bike, hopped on the CalTrain to SF and spent the day biking around with Matt and his 7 year old daughter – what a cyclist! We even had an incident with an old lady cutting us off because we did not stop at the cross walk.
Karaoke
After the EdClub pot luck dinner, went to Karaoke with Saya, Matt, Sherry and Marc.
What happens in Karaoke stays in Karaoke… kkk
Coexist
Saturday – day off
Met up with André Borges, friend from Brasil who’s been working at Apple for the past 10 years, and went to his annual Pre-Thx-Thx 2015. Great food, great people, great beer 🙂
At night went to Omair’s get together at Oak Creek Apts – good fun with fellow LDTers. Needles to say that I slept well 🙂