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 […]
Chapter 1: Defining the best. What the best college teachers do. Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Wednesday October 17, 2018 10:55 AM Chapter summary of chapter 1 of the book Bain, K., 2011. What the best college teachers do. Harvard University Press, pp. 1-21 Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining the best My take-aways Bain evaluated defined the best college professors not based on their performance in class, neither in the course evaluations, […]
Getting things done
Berkeley, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:43 AM Planning and scheduling, while important things, are not enough, as determination is it and a non-stop motion of continue working until accomplish targets. Delaying things is absolutely bad. Once delayed a bit, those things could be delayed forever. Perseverance, consistency, and getting good rest per day, are important […]
