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Tech 4 Learners - Week 8 - Class Notes

As usual, a dynamic class. Looked at making learning easier. Lots of ideas about A’s project - we were able to schedule a meeting with OMS tomorrow so had to run with building the …

PhD information session

Attended an informational session about what the process of applying to a PhD looks like. You have to find a professor who will be your research mentor. Usually you will not work a…

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Intro to Teaching - Week 8 - Class Notes

We talked about classroom management and about our next assignment in class. No notes or pictures but great class. Correction- took notes on the iPhone: Intro to Teaching Nov 10 Cl…

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Brazilian Education - Week 8 - Class Notes

We listened to Luana Marotta, a fellow Lemann Fellow, present her dissertation’s rough draft. She is a PhD candidate in International Comparative Education admitted in 2012. Her r…

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Tech 4 Learners - Week 8 - Class Notes

As usual, a dynamic class. Did a group exercise to talk within our groups and share what we thought of each other… celebrate something they did looking back. Looking forward, what …

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Qualitative Research - Week 8 - Reading Assignment

Assignment “Reporting Ethnography to informants”, Page, Samson, Crockett (1998) “On Seeking —and Rejecting— Validity in Qualitative Research”, Wolcott, Eisner, Peshkin (1990) “Sta…

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Learning Environments - Week 8 - Reading Assignment

Assignment “Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things”, Edwin Hutchins, 2006 “A sociohistorical approach to remediation”, Michael Cole and Peg Griffin, 1986 Response ”… the insight th…

Electric Wheel

So I am transforming my wife’s tricycle into an electric one. Bought a front wheel with an brushless electric motor, the controller, accelerator and breaks BUT it came with no batt…

Be my Manatee

A play on words from the popular TV show 30 Rock - NBC.com “I will be your mentor, and you my manatee”. Idea that has been brewing after I found the app Be My Eyes… Why not a Be m…