At the moment I’m generating the curriculum for the English version of RoboTutor. I had a good opportunity to practice using Linux’s sed command, so I wanted to write about my experience. Before I get into how the sed command works, I need to give a quick intro for how…

Today I began my typical morning run with my Garmin smartwatch attached to my wrist. I ran a few blocks before I decided to try running without it today. What was once an effective means of motivation through reward and self-quantization had become an oppressive burden to the enjoyment of…

Yesterday I finished the last day of an ab workout schedule provided by this Android app called “Six Pack in 30 days” (I still don’t have a six-pack, those bastards). There are three workout sequences of thirty days each, for a total of 90 days. …

This week, after last week’s discussions with the teachers, I decided to redirect the ship towards “mistakes” and growth mindsets. Mistakes as learning opportunities. Gave a little speech used the activity listed in the book “Mathematical Mindsets” by Jo Boaler, crinkling up paper (shown below) made a little “treasure box”…

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca I came into the final week of my summer at TechShop Inventor Camp with a challenge on my plate. The camp was being led by two new instructors whom I sort of knew, but hadn’t yet worked with. Also, the…

How can we use the tools already available to us to improve our documentation? There are so many apps out there already that are super fun and useful for captioning and enhancing the photos we take. Snapchat The first obvious choice is Snapchat. Everyone loves Snapchat. While I don’t really…

Today was the second week of TechShop summer camp, and after building some rapport with the teachers during the first week (of different students), I gave a presentation to this week’s kids about documentation and digital portfolios. …

My goal for the first week of TechShop summer camp was to go in with a so-called “minimum viable product” to get kids documenting their work in an easy and minimally invasive way. This was easily achieved with an Android tablet that I lent to kids to take pictures of…

This summer I will be doing an independent study that examines how we can help young students improve their metacognition by documenting their making process. It will be a continuation of the work I did with a team last fall for my Learning Media Design course, where we designed a…