Engineering Education - Week 5.2 - Class Notes
Great class today with guest speaker - NYU professor Jan L. Plass - the author of this week’s reading on the foundations of Game-Based Learning. The biggest takeaway was the d…
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LDT Seminar - Week 5 - Class Notes
Not much progress on my Master’s project (LXD) but starting to talk more about a new idea James Leo and I had - a staffing agency combined with a bootcamp and mentorship for high…
Engineering Education - Week 5.2 - Reading Notes
Reading: Jan L. Plass, Bruce D. Homer & Charles K. Kinzer (2015) Foundations of Game-Based Learning, Educational Psychologist, 50:4, 258-283 Summary: I highly appreciated the r…
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,…
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 bu…
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 i…
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 …
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…
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…
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 De…