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

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

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

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...

LDT Seminar - Master's Project - Week 5 - Update

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...

Engineering Education - Week 4.2 - Reading Notes

Engineering Education - Week 4.2 - Reading Notes

LOFT Process Guides: Understand Phase. Techniques: Identify Problems, Preparation Identify problems What problems should the learners be able to solve? Subject matter expert develops list of challe...

Bike Stolen #3

Bike Stolen #3

Woke up to this: This should’ve been there… [gallery link=“file” size=“full” type=“slideshow” ids=“5684,5683,5682,5681,5678,5680”] in some of the pictures the bike has no fender...