User:Vtaylor/100 words

User:Vtaylor/100 words 2017 and earlier

just beyond your comfort zone * important and interesting urgent and/or important * glx k-3 thoughts * technology support integration * curate find use share create make  solve  share * kindles *  teacher / facilitator * learning guide path * 3D printing

Engineering Education - Ohio State, Purdue, Olin * "Openness to Change", and "Do Something" * ocean engineering Florida Atlantic University * assistive technology *  data visualization   * environmental engineering * "do-learn" format, with the application of concepts being taught before the formal introduction of the underlying theory * mental models / tools

2018
2018.3.23 * "do-learn" format, with the application of concepts being taught before the formal introduction of the underlying theory. Some engineering education is moving toward the "do-learn" format. How practical / applicable is this in sixth grade math? Or any math for that matter? Are there problems to set up for kids that they can try and do and then teach / have them learn what they now know that need to know or figured out for themselves.

2018.3.23 * Fifth Grade Science Fair Judging * I thought it went very well. We quickly looked over the 30 or so that met the basic criteria and picked 8-9 to interview one at a time. The three of us all participated in each interview - worked out better than having a batch of kids standing around to be interviewed several times by individual judges. It is a different experience for the kids - just one interview with a gang of unknown grown-ups rather than 3 1-on-1. We enjoyed all the projects. Several were either original or interesting extensions of some of the usual science fair projects. Some surprises - kids who interview much better than their board suggested. Only one kid of those we interviewed really didn't know much (or care?) about the project.

2018.3.22 * Basic education includes reading, writing and arithmetic. What math should every kid "know" by sixth grade? From observing a sixth grade class and follow-on discussions with the teacher, the current state of is pretty sad. Most kids don't know basic math facts. Some of the methods for multiplication that these kids "know" is interesting but introduce so many opportunities for making mistakes that they do the kids a great dis-service. There seems to be a weird allocation of math instruction time. Is that the problem? Too much time spent on instruction, not enough on boring stuff like basic math facts practice? What ever happened to "minute math"? Page of basic math problems. Do as many as you can in 1-5 minutes. Measure progress - number done, percent correct. Work on improving both. * 132 * Q: app for that?

learn more...
There is always something more to learn about any topic. One of the greatest pleasures for the self-directed learner is following a trail of fascinating resources about a subject of interest.

Most of the stories include a Learn more.. section with links and brief descriptions of additional related resources.

Where practical some suggestions for using or learning about the topic through hands-on activities are included as Try this,

Although there are plenty of social bookmarking tools available as online web sites, Diigo is my current favorite. The free version provides all the functionality I need. There is a premium version available with more features and functional for an additional cost.

[/Curator Curator] - includes description, try this

After finding and tagging hundred of references and resources, the next logical question was how to share all this information? Hand crafting and maintaining lists as web pages or blog posts is labor intensive and not nearly as interesting as finding and tagging these resources in the first place. But it is pretty unrewarding to just have them sit.

App smashing is an awful title but a great concept. Take information or functionality from multiple applications and resources and combine them in some way to produce something else. So here are all these resources neatly categorized in Diigo in no particular order other than in reverse date input sequence. The entries are all jumbled together for the most part. Occasionally there is a trail of related items the resulted from some concentrated research project or discovery quest. There are blogs for each of the major topics - engineering for kids, k-8 teaching and learning, and recently added, general STEM resources for girls and their grown-ups (parents, educators), and profiles of people in STEM careers - usually women, though not exclusively. To add fresh content to each of these blogs, there is now a nice "smashed" process to automatically create a formatted summary of the most recent Diigo entries for a specific tag using the WikiEducator RSS feed display extension tool, copy that to the new blog post, tidy up the text ans publish. * RSS extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS

The blogs all use WordPress which supports pasting in formatted text along with its HTML codes. The copy and paste preserves the formatting provided by the RSS extension - in this case, a definition list within a table for each entry.

Engineering 4 Kids (e4k)

Sharing information about engineering - the built world, man-made artifacts, design, maker movement, STEM, STEAM, and all the variations, human interface, as well as the people, places, teaching and learning related to any or all of the above.


 * current version of the automatically generated list of entries with links and summaries http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Learn_more.../e4k
 * blog main page with links to recent posts from the generated lists https://engineering4kids.org/