UC Berkley - Robotic Learning Lab Visit
Went to a guided visit of Berkley’s Robotic Learning Lab yesterday. What a beautiful campus and great work they are doing in the field… fascinating. [gallery ids=“6075,6076,6077,6078,6079,6080,...
LDT Seminar - Master's Project - Candace Thille
Met with Candace to talk about my Master’s project. Amazing feedback. What I’m trying to build seems more like a performance tool than a learning tool - which I already knew but phrased this way m...
Engineering Education - Week 5.1 - Class Notes
Ok class - talking about the readings and more about what Benchmark Tasks are and what a Cognitive task analysis entails. A little confusing as to how to translate this technique into my very ‘meta...
Lytics Seminar - Week 5 - Class Notes
This week we kept on advancing on the Machine Learning, more specifically about textual analysis. We went over the “bag of words” technique of trying to make predictions about the type of annotati...
Brazilian Education - Week 5 - Class Notes
This week Paulo Blikstein presented on the topic of equity in education and how technology could potentially help reduce it - with a warning that it might actually increase the gap between the privile...
Job Search
This week had 2 informational sessions on a future job, besides starting to send out my resume and apply for jobs online. The first informational session was on Tuesday with Udemy. Spoke to one of th...
Engineering Education - Week 5.1 - Reading Notes
Reading: Ambrose, S. A. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Notes: Chapter 4 - “How Do Students Develop Mastery?” A...
Engineering Education - Week 4 - Benchmark Tasks and Initial Cognitive Task Analysis Assignment
This was a tough one… instructions and content were not very clear/cohesive. ...
LDT Seminar - Master's Project - Week 5 - Update
Have been trying to focus on putting together an initial prototype for LXD. Since the idea was to have a talking virtual character, I decided that it would be interesting for the instructor to talk ba...
Internship - Week 4 - Check-in Assignment
Prompt: Quick reflection: What have you learned in terms of new skills and as well as insights through your internship work? What questions has it raised? Do you have any concerns you would...