Core Mechanics - Weew 2.1 - Class Notes

Sleep help us to see or formulate patterns Memorization also is helped by time - better to study over 3 days rather than all in one day Graphs Pie charts are hard to show differences in sizes Line ...

Teacher PD - Week 2 - Class Notes

Teacher PD - Week 2 - Class Notes

Rich discussion in class about the readings - what is are the core features and goals of transformative PD. Focus on: Classroom practice Teaching and learning of subject matter (PCK) Student learnin...

Brazilian Education - Week 2 - Class Notes

Brazilian Education - Week 2 - Class Notes

Great discussion today about ProFIS - an inclusive liberal education program (2 years) that help students get into UNICAMP led by Prof. Marcelo Knobel. Prof. Thomas Ehrlich also talked a little abou...

Jewish Contemporary Museum - NEAT exhibit

On Sunday drove into the city with Omair to visit the Drop-In Art Studio’s Maker Art and Mini Expo featuring Stanford’s LDT student projects. Unfortunately we got there a little late and weren’...

Brazilian Education - Week 2 - Reading Notes

Pedrosa, R. H., Simões, T. P., Carneiro, A. M., Andrade, C. Y., Sampaio, H., & Knobel, M. (2014). Access to higher education in Brazil. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 16(1), 5-33. Chic...

Teacher PD - Week 2 - Assignment - Reading Response

“What do you think are the most important goals of PD? Why are those goals so important?” The most important goal of PD is to teach teachers how to think. Think about their teaching, how students ...

Core Mechanics - Week 2 - General Notes

This class uses a book written by the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and his 2 research assistants (our teachers for the course) Schwartz, D. L., Tsang, J. M., & Blair, K. P. (forthcoming Fe...

E-trike first test ride

Awesome! Solid fitting of the box, no extra noise and a enough power. Fast as well! Have to slow down in turns. ...

Teacher PD - Week 2 - Reading Notes

Teacher PD - Week 2 - Reading Notes

Ball, D., & Cohen, D. (1999). Toward a practice-based theory of professional education. Teaching as the Learning Profession San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Plenty of PD but fragmented and without curricu...

Lemann Fellowship - Thank You Letter

As part of receiving the generous fellowship, we are encouraged to write a thank you letter to our sponsors… here’s mine: Dear Mr. Lemann, I am a Masters candidate at the Learning, Design, and Tec...