Traditional knowledge

summer after my Freshman Year, I worked as an Economic Research Assistant at the University of Michigan. I took on data analysis and visualization projects with limited direction and developed proficiency in R and Stata despite having little prior knowledge of either tool. Last summer, I worked as a Data Science Intern at Drift, an energy software startup seeking to make clean energy affordable and accessible to everyone. Here, I developed models and built tools in Excel and Python to improve…

teachers’ technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge and how these knowledge bases influence how a teacher effectively integrates technology into classroom instruction (Hutchison, Beschorner, & Schmidt-Crawford, 2012). While new media literacies are a set of cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in the new media landscape it involves social skills developed through collaboration and networking. It is built on the foundation of traditional…

learn more by working and learning with other colleagues. They take time to consider what each person understand about the learning and knowledge they have created collectively during the discussions they have such as coordination meeting which is held every week. They also have a positive attitude towards collaboration and team learning. “Expertise and knowledge is better improved by the use of teams. This is because different members of an organization…

and adapted in reference to online distance learning. Salmon states 5 key stages and it speaks of the role of the learner and the facilitator’s role[}|| on each of them. I found that Stage 4: Knowledge construction and Stage 5: Development as the two key points to my learning experience. Stage 4: Knowledge construction The first 3 stages of Salmon’s model helped built its way up to this stage. For me this is the most important part of learning. The facilitator 's job is to encourage the…

Discussion 2 Reflect back upon your own experiences in elementary and secondary school. Were there any hints that your teachers had been exposed to Schwab’s ideas? Reflecting back to my elementary school experience, I seem to remember that most of my education came from a textbook, with one exception of course. In 4th grade (if I am not mistaken) my science teacher was teaching us about the eye, in order for her to explain to us the way the eye portrays images upside down she drew an…

jointly coordinating and negotiating process by which the individual utilizes the socially-valued function or social discourse (i.e., knowledge or language) as the way practitioners use it in a particular context, resulting in changing one’s membership from the novice to more central participation in a community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991). In this way, knowledge is created, reflected, and evolved as an active form of competence, tool, or the language bound to the social context of a…

helps students acquire higher educational attainments, employment and vocational mobility (Bialystock, 2001, cited in Baker, 2011). According to the Ministry of Education (MOE), 2007), literacy in English helps students obtain the understanding, knowledge, and skills they need to become social, cultural, political, economic, and global participants. To become successful participants, students…

leadership responsibilities within a school. I believe that this course will equip me with a body of knowledge of management in education and leadership within schools, this will help me become an informed, capable and effective classroom practitioner and school leader. As part of my PGCE I was required to conduct some small scale class based action research, I would be very interested to deepen my knowledge…

based on basic principles about how children learn and how teachers teach effectively to respond to learners’ needs. The role of a teacher in a classroom involves setting-up and managing a learning environment that will be conducive to teaching and learning. The learning environment includes the curriculum, the children, the teachers, the school administrators, the parents, the equipment, and the different learning materials involved in daily business of learning and teaching that is expected to…

Heading 1: Introduction ... HERE BEGINS THE INTRO! Information is power of course. But how is power distributed in our society? It is a fact that the distribution of information (the public knowledge) is not equal for all. Conventionally, this is called inequality of educational opportunity (IEO). Currently, we are living the impact of the globalization phenomenon “which encompasses a great variety of tendencies and trends in the economic, social and cultural spheres” (Bertucci & Alberti,…