Brazilian Education - Week 7 - Class Notes
David Planck economist to politics Anisio Teixeira - his hero Published his book in 1992 education boils down to two unattainable goals: more and better Bob Verhine 1995 start…
Curriculum Construction - Week 7 - Reading Notes
Martin, D. S., Saif, P. S., & Thiel, L. (1987). Curriculum development: Who is involved and how. Educational Leadership, 44, 40–48. Research questions on national survey What c…
LDT Seminar - Master's Project Feedback
Got some good feedback today about my Master’s Project: Look at StickyUnit Focus on a content area Talk to John Willensky - making research public Think about what kind …
Curriculum Construction - Week 7 - Class Notes
Denise wasn’t there so the CAs Molly and Stephanie led the class very well. We did a Jigsaw exercise where the class was divided into their preassigned roles/lenses we did the�…
Curriculum Construction - Week 7 - Curriculum Critique Assignment
Curriculum Critique - tynker.com - Programming 100 Curriculum Construction - Winter 2016 - Lucas Longo Tynker is an online platform that aims to teach programming to children from…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 6 - Reading Notes
Blikstein, 2015. Computationally Enhanced Toolkits for Children: Historical Review and a Framework for Future Design, Stanford University, USA The generations of microcontrollers…
Curriculum Construction - Week 6 - Reading Reflection 2 Assignment
“Whether it comes after teaching, while teaching, or by teaching, we often think of assessment as something done to students, not with them.” (Coffey, 2003, p.76) The word “a…
Beyond Bits and Atoms - Week 6 - Dream Toy Assignment
Worked on the Dream Toy assignment some more today - TRTL - and the Turtle Habitat. …
Curriculum Construction - Week 6 - Reading Notes
Banks, J. (1993). The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education. Educational Researcher, 22(5), pp. 4-14. Dominating groups Western traditionalists Multic…
Brazilian Education - Week 6 - Class Notes
Today we talked about how education is financed in Brazil and the National Education Plan lead by Bob Verhine (Universidade Federal da Bahia). Basically Brazil spends quite a bit…