Engineering 11 Interview with Sydney Tomaneng

[@HenryFanLearningScience]

What a fun thought of how an MD who can code, could do for and with their colleagues and patients! The work of Ungrading, flipped learning, positioning students to take ownership, and community coconstructing knowledge, by not leaving relationships up to chance proves to be rigorous & healthy! Regardless whether or not Sydney continues to code by choice or demand, I’m happy she has had this intro to what learning may look & feel like, from this engineering class! 🎉 Question for Sydney: what are some lessons in principles of learning, and Jeff’s facilitation of class, you could apply in your future role as MD, given you continue in that journey? How might doctors workflow&service change if they understood how learning works?

[@HenryFanLearningScience]

How will developing a life long habit of reading empower you when you become an MD so you’re not constrained from apprenticeship by observation and standard med school outcomes?

[@HenryFanLearningScience]

how might reading (types 3-6, from Jeff's What is Deep Reading article) allow you to spend more time per patient, reduce the need to prescribe medications, and empower your patients to help past and future patients?

[@JeffAndersonMath]

I need to send this to Sydney to let her know it's up here and to thank her: this quarter, she'll be part of the Engr 11 teaching team for our Foothill students. Fun side note: for the first time in 5 years, I completely filled the Engr 11 class : 35/35 enrolled with 4 on the waitlist. I'm hoping I can generate enough interest to run a 20+ person Engr 11 section in spring 2023 also. That would be a dream come true. I still think often about that project-based learning course to build a functional 8-bit computer with an FPU, ALU, control unit, and rudimentary memory architecture that is fully programmable using machine language. I think that process would be very powerful for young CS, applied math, and science students who have an interest in computation.

[@ybrii]

Thank you, I was wondering if there was something to combine notes and code for this class. I have personally used google collab (jupyter notebook inspired) for my previous coding classes but couldn't get it to work for MATLAB (since it isn't public). Now I can keep a similar workflow to previous quarters, thank you!

[@JeffAndersonMath]

Yeah... It frustrates me that MATLAB maintains a for-profit platform. I think you said you worked in Octave last quarter, no? I'd love to hear how that worked for you. The MATLAB live script functionality is useful and allows for dynamic files that include both text and code. That LiveScript option didn't exist when I was learning MATLAB so enjoy seeing it develop and they are constantly adding new features to this file type. I learn a lot from students who play in MATLAB as they develop their work and can't wait to learn with you! Cheers to your learning and to this process. I hope this class is special for you and I look forward to our chat in office hours.