Thank you to all the guests who made it out to the second in our series of free seminars. This installment was particularly exciting. We were joined by Chris H. former Assistant Director to Admissions at Yale College and current member of the Veritas Tutors Admissions Consulting team.
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Veritas Tutors and Harvard GSE – Technology In Education Seminar
This semester, Veritas Tutors is fortunate enough to have three dedicated interns from the Harvard Graduate School of Education helping out with pedagogic research and development. As part of their weekly commitments, one of these interns will engage in weekly seminars with Andrew Magliozzi, Founder of Veritas Tutors. The general topic of these seminars will be education, entrepreneurship, and disruptive technologies.
As always, we will be recording and sharing these lessons freely with the world. Without further ado, here goes:
Lesson One: Introduction to tutoring, education, and disruptive market forces
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Reading for Lesson 1:
“Expanding Open Education” by Andrew Magliozzi (submitted to Free Culture Conference 2009)
Lesson Two: Information in a Digital Age
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Readings and media:
Minds for Sale by Jonathan Zittrain (video)
“The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin
The Economy of Ideas by John Perry Barlow
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead by Joshua Green
Lesson Three: Online Education Entrepreneurship
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Readings and Media:
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Collins and Halverson
Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen, Curtis Johnson, and Michael Horn
Lesson Four: Online Education Research Plan
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Readings and Media:
Minds for Sale (redux) by Jonathan Zittrain (note Andrew’s question at the end)
The World is Open by Curtis Bonk
Lesson Five: Fundraising and Grantwriting for Non-profits
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Lesson Six: Design Thinking and Education – Web 3.0 Predictions
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Dave Eggers TED Talk on 826 Valencia Volunteer Tutoring Project
Jane McGonigal TED Talk: Gaming can make a better world
Lesson Seven: Designing Social Engagement in Education
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Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Lesson Eight : Legal Design and Ed Koans
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University of the People by Shai Reshef
Note your esteemed host on this podcast is an active contributor to the conversation.
“Your next book should be an app” by Cody Brown
Jimmy Wales on the creation of Wikipedia
Lesson Nine : LibraryofChampions.org and an old sales paradigm for a new age
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Lesson 10: Interview with Allan Collins, co-author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
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Veritas Admissions Seminars
For anyone that was unable to attend our recent Admissions Seminars on “How to write the Personal Admissions Essay” and “How to get into (your) Harvard,” we have the materials and lecture audio available here. Check it out, tell your friends, and let us know what you think.
Siddhartha Lessons
Here are three recordings from Andrew Magliozzi’s lessons on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. In addition to being a classic work and one of Andrew’s favorites, it is also a common summer reading assignment for high schoolers. It is highly recommended that you read this pithy novel before listening to the following lesson recordings.
Toni Morrison’s Love – Essay Composition Lessons
Here are a series of lessons on Toni Morrison’s Love, and the exploration of its central theme. First, find a Livescribe lesson focused on the first half of the book, followed by an online brainstorm, the full essay document, and revision lessons.
Poetry Analysis Brainstorm and Paper
This is a lesson planning a compare and contrast essay on the poetry of Robert Frost and Seamus Heaney, respectively “For Once, Then, Something” (1923) and “Personal Helicon” (1966). The full text of the essay can be found here. Otherwise, here are the individual lesson recordings, conducted by company founder Andrew Magliozzi.
Great Gatsby Lessons
This is the first in our series of recorded tutoring lessons. With consent from my student, we recorded our lesson on Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby. These lessons include brainstorming, outline planning, and a full version of the essay which can be played back from start to finish with our respective contributions highlighted for transparency.
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