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A Learner’s Reflection

From the countless conversations we have about our career or passion, a few gets stuck in our heads. An impactful conversation that I still remember to this day is one that I had with my supervisor. We spoke during our last meeting before I left research and went to teach math at a public school.Continue reading “A Learner’s Reflection”

Theory of Learning

When I define learning, I like to break it down into stages: learning new ideas, building on top of existing knowledge, forming and internalizing concepts, and building habits. The world of learning and education is so huge, yet, we try to understand how it happens at the micro level: the cognition. When a baby isContinue reading “Theory of Learning”

Future Roadmap

Reflecting on my learning and growth throughout my career life pushes me to think of “What is next?”. Looking at the big picture, I think to myself, what are the goals and areas that keep appearing in my way and I just care so much about? Whether it is a chat with a colleague orContinue reading “Future Roadmap”

Evolving as an Educator

In this article, I talk about my goals of undertaking a Master’s degree in Educational Technology, and how these goals evolved upon my graduation. My journey of entering the world of Education was a gradual one. I am a computer scientist by profession, who always had a passion for teaching. The spark that led meContinue reading “Evolving as an Educator”

Adaptive Learning from a Computational Thinking Perspective

Working in Computational Thinking (CT) and Computer Science for K-12 always made me appreciate cognitive skill development. Most of what we aim for in teaching CT is to allow our teachers to train students to actively use logical thinking and problem-solving. Learning about Cognitive Theory and its applications in learning fascinated me and helped meContinue reading “Adaptive Learning from a Computational Thinking Perspective”

Computational Thinking in Science

This week, I was reading about how computational thinking (later referred to CT) is used in classrooms. Coming from a computer science background, I believe that if teachers pay more attention to deliberately include CT in their classes, it will transform our national teaching and learning. The concepts of CT are usually simple when youContinue reading “Computational Thinking in Science”

My Passion and Curiosity in Ed

I wanted to express how my Passion and Curiosity lead my way from Computer Science to Education in less than a minute video. This video is absolutely personal, all clips and pictures are taken through my career work. I hope you enjoy!

Rethink Teaching in 21st Century

After weeks of reading on teaching and why we should rethink it to fit the 21st century, we came as a group to a possible solution. Our thinking started with finding questions on the problem to polarize our thinking around the best possible solution (or the best bad idea). We needed to consider all theContinue reading “Rethink Teaching in 21st Century”

Rethink Education Survey

Dear Colleagues, Please consider answering this short survey about the wicked problem of Rethinking Education in our professional context. There are 3 multiple choice questions. It should take you about 2 minutes to answer them. I have crafted this survey for an assignment that is part of my graduate program in educational technology at Michigan StateContinue reading “Rethink Education Survey”

Rethinking Teaching Inforgraph

In the past few weeks I started thinking and researching on Teaching and how we could rethink it to make it cope with demands of this age. Only after chatting with my colleague, Kelvin, my approach to tackling the problem really changed. We were able to bounce off ideas and really look at the problemContinue reading “Rethinking Teaching Inforgraph”