Category: Week 9

Week 9 discussion

I really enjoyed and appreciated reading “Parents as Learning Partners…” as it directly relates to our design project around parent engagement. It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be multiple types of roles parents can play in supporting learning at home. I wonder how intentional the parents in this study were in performing a specific role, or… Read more Week 9 discussion

Week 9 Discussion

The study Parents as Learning Partners in the Development of Technological Fluency resonated strongly with me, as I also grew up with a technology-minded father but was never exposed to CS until college. Throughout my brother and I’s childhood, my dad would spend time teaching my brother programming and web design basics. In an interesting turn… Read more Week 9 Discussion

Week 9: Maker Movement + Innovation

I have always been a fan of the Maker Movement. From a young age, my favorite experiences all involved me actively engaging with a topic– building with legos, creating with paints and scrap materials found around the house. A project that I am currently working on is similar to many referenced in the Peppler and… Read more Week 9: Maker Movement + Innovation

Week 9 Response

I’m taking Beyond Bits and Atoms with Dr. Blikstein, so I’ve been very immersed in the Maker Movement, teaching coding to kids, and building animals with the laser cutter this quarter. As an assignment for that course, I visited a maker space at Barron Park Elementary School, part of the PAUSD. Smita Kolhatkar, the head of… Read more Week 9 Response

Week 9 Response

“Stuck in the Shallow End (2008) reveals how these beliefs about a narrow strata of students having “high potential” in computer science is laden with racial, gender, socioeconomic biases and plays out in schools through tracking, course assignments, course availability, and instructional resources [12]. As explained by educational researcher Carol Dweck, this type of evaluation… Read more Week 9 Response

Week 9 Discussion - Juan G

This week’s readings were probably my favorite of the entire quarter. They are directly related to what I want to do with my life in the short-medium future. This past summer, I started developing a business plan for an organization that would focus on teaching entrepreneurship, design thinking, and leadership to teenagers in Mexico. The… Read more Week 9 Discussion - Juan G

Week 9 response

I am taking the “Beyond Bits and Atoms” course with Prof. Blikstein this semester so I was very familiar with the content in his article and that of Peppler and Bender. I think it’s important to share with the students in this class some of what we’ve discussed there, because there are critical tensions between… Read more Week 9 response

Week 9 - On Maker Spaces

What I love most about this article is that it opened my eyes and introduced me to a whole new world that I hadn’t known existed! I had heard the term “Maker Space” before, but never really knew what it was until reading this article. So firstly, I am grateful for the opportunity to have… Read more Week 9 - On Maker Spaces