GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
Our life can be visualized as a polygon where each side is facing different audience and their different expectations. To broadly classify there are at-least two sides of everyone’s life: the professional life and the personal life. Again, we as a person we have several goals. I think balancing the way we deal with our … Continue reading Technology helps balance life →
Read moreEngE 1215 and 1216 are introductory engineering courses, having innovatively designed curriculum structure that aims to introduce students to the engineering profession. This curriculum structure aligns with almost all the principles of teaching and learning emphasized by Freire. Here I will discuss about these courses and how it engages students to learn critically. Hope the … Continue reading Freshman Engineering Courses align with the critical pedagogical approach →
Read moreThe questions that sparked in my mind after hearing this topic “Inclusive pedagogy”, was: “Can I say, I practice inclusive pedagogy?”. Yes, I obey and tell my students to obey the Virginia Tech Principles of Community, but is that it? What more I can do to create an ambience in my class that it can … Continue reading Do I practice inclusive pedagogy? →
Read moreI started teaching from when I was very young and now I am a PhD student. I taught in informal settings and laboratory settings in India to freshman engineering classroom settings in VT. This is my fifth semester teaching in VT. My students’ ages ranged from 4 years to junior year students (pretty amazing). Every … Continue reading Teaching skills: Personalization, being energetic and enthusiastic and clear communication →
Read moreI taught two sections of the freshman engineering course in Spring 2015, where students learn in a project based environment about the engineering design process. I had 6 project teams in each of the sections. It was before their mid-term exam, when I was brainstorming with my colleagues to find out an effective way of … Continue reading Students made their own mid-term questions →
Read moreAfter participating in the class discussion and reading the article on Mindful learning by Ellen Langer, it is clear that Mindful learning is actively engaging in the learning process by paying attention at the present and noticing new perspectives, and being sensitive to contexts. Here I will discuss how mindful learning helps engineers to participate … Continue reading Mindful Learning and its need for 21st century engineers →
Read moreConnected learning can be regarded as a framework of an education system/approach that follow several principles helping students in learning, which includes: interest powered, production centered, peer supported, shared purpose, academic oriented, openly networked. It empowers students with the responsibility to learn from various network resources, curiously engage them to think critically in the area … Continue reading Connected Learning can be implemented using Project-Based Learning approach →
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