Berkeley, Wednesday December 12, 2018 11:28 AM In an interview to one of the professors of the study, he said: “The most important aspect of my teaching is the relationship of trust that develops between me and my students” That trust meant that the teachers believed students wanted to learn, and they assumed until proven […]
Annotations from Chapter 5, How do they conduct class?, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Tuesday December 11, 2018 10:03 PM Bain (2004) identified seven common principles in the teachers that were part of his study. 1. Create Natural Critical Learning Environment People tend to learn most effectively when (i) they are trying to solve problems that they find intriguing, beautiful, or important; (ii) they are able to do […]
Back to blogging
Berkeley, Sunday December 9, 2018 11:10 PM I am facing the finals week of the Fall semester. Some big challenges are coming back. While a book review is coming a minor challenge, in comparison with a prospectus, to be done by tomorrow, and my oral qualification exam, which are on Friday, writing the book has […]
How many things to say, to do, but how little time to do it. (Positively edited 5 days after the original draft)
Berkeley, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 9:30 PM Last post was about one month ago. It has been useful to put all my attention on my daily activities and exams, but perhaps all the words that I could have typed here Jian, now, have listened them. You and I should thank Jian then for her attention. […]
Annotations from Chapter 4, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Sunday, November 4, 2018 10:20 PM Chapter 4. What do the best teachers expect from their students? As a tradition with previous chapters, I still want to write here my take-aways and annotations I remember from this chapter, although, I finished it one week ago. Take aways: Avoid stereotype a group of people of […]
My Think Tank Blog Plan from November 2018 until January 2019. Qualification Exams
Berkeley, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:30 PM Dear followers and readers. Thanks for have been checking this blog in a frequent basis, by either liking posts, or following or subscribed to it to get notifications when I post, or the most brave, who is mainly a sentimental connected person, Jian, by commenting, or by just […]
Annotations from Chapter 3, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:00 PM Chapter 3 challenges the reader with 13 questions about how to prepare the material, syllabus, challenge traditional methods, be flexible, empower students, facilitated their learning, and have an influence in their self-steem. I am not going to cover all the 13 questions here, but some important aspects from […]
Built infrastructure is essential. Muller, et al, 2015. Review
Berkeley, Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00 PM Annotations from Muller, M., Biswas, A., Martin-Hurtado, R. & Tortajada, C. 2015, “Built infrastructure is essential”, Science, vol. 349, no. 6248, pp. 585-586. Muller et al (2015) interestingly challenged promoted benefits North to South of green-infrastructure in fast developing countries, for water and energy development, in contrast to pragmatic effects that […]
River Basin Development Planning and Management. Barrow, 1998. Annotations.
Berkeley, Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:30 AM Annotations from Barrow, C.J., 1998. River basin development planning and management: A critical review. World development, 26(1), pp.171-186. The practice of development and management of river basin started in the 1930’s. It has been applied in various countries in the world, and according to Barrow (1998), the results […]
Annotations from Chapter 2, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Monday, October 22, 2018 10:17 AM My take-aways from this chapter is how do we learn. Before explaining the main four types of learners, I want to say that the chapter was built about an example of students learning as Aristotelian physicists and Newtonian and how to questions themselves. I did not fully grasped […]
