Class Tuesday, 4/22

Reminder: on Tuesday we will be meeting at the Krause Innovation Studio and then walking together to room 315 in the Patee Library.  If you're running late, just come find us in the library.

Session #26 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. How are we recording our this i believe podcast

• PSU Library Media Common-Audio Recording  (Suggested)
• 109 ASI (Suggested)
• or you can use you own devise (phone,or computer) to record you audio. However  make sure the location should be free of external distractions and relatively quiet-Podcast Audio Recording Tips

2.  How can we filter salt water to make it drinkable

• Water Desalination Process

What did you learn?

1.Sometimes asking a question or giving a child a problem to figure out and then leaving them figure out own to be creative ca help increasing learning, rather than just lecture

What do you want to learn more about?

1. Solar computer labs and access for children in developing countries

• Solar computer lab in India 

2. Educational innovations that have failed to take off

• 52 Notes & Quotes from the Education Innovation Summit

Session #25 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?
1.Other types of innovation that dose not follow Roger's

• Bring this question to class session #26

2.Where will agriculture development go in China

• The Role of Agriculture in China Development-Article

3.Our indigenous knowledge topic and what we will find at the library?

• We will find out -Class session #27

What did you learn?

1. How many different speakers to learn about and that have came into our class

2.Sometimes even the theories/model that we think may explain certain aspect of innovation, etc have faults or certain times they don't work

3.The scale and impact of different agriculture extension programs

4.The ways in which the diversity of programs benefit others as well as ourselves

5.About how modernization effects different countries development

What do you want to learn more about?

1. What are the different type of innovation

• 10 Type of Innovation (Book) by Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel Brain Quinn, Halen Walter 

2. More about Dr. Melanie's thesis research

• Find out from Dr. Melanie

Videos for Thursday

These are really fun and inspiring!

Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud

Khan Academy

Please share any other resources that you feel are relevant.

Session #24 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?
1. Dr. Martin Mulder

• http://www.mmulder.nl/cv/

2. Agriculture Education in Europe

• This is some web to check about agriculture education in Europe

              -http://www.europea-belgium.be/fancam-eng
              -http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXre0010.htm

3.Collaboration of Business and agriculture extension

• We will bring this to class as lingering question

4. Dr. Martin Mulder works in Indonesia?

• Improvement of training in Agriculture – Indonesia

5.Indigenous Knowledge in the Netherlands 

• Session # 26

6.Learning more about Dayak people

• Forbidden Forest of the Dayak People

What did you learn?
1.Indigenous Knowledge
2. That women in some culture use neck rings to elongate their neck
3.There are Ethiopian Nomads who are facing land-grabbing and water security issues
4.UNESCO-UNEVOC is a specialize center for technical and vocational education and training
5.European agriculture education
6.That youth in agriculture prevalent as I thught
7. Definition of Indigenous knowledge
8.Indigenous knowledge can even be something that people know from living in a certain area (example; where to eat breakfast in state college.

What do you want to learn more?
1. Is the FFA organization active in the Europe?

• We will bring this to class as lingering question

2. The Netherlands

Coming up next week

You'll notice that on the syllabus for next Tuesday (Session 25) it says "Readings TBD".  In ANGEL you'll find that there are links to a video and to a reading that I'd like you to look over for Tuesday's class.

We're going to have a really fun session on next Thursday (Session 26), but be sure to check out the two video links posted to ANGEL.  Hopefully you find these videos fun and inspiring!

Both classes next week will be "tech days" so bring something to plug in to the Media-scape. If you haven't given your global plan presentation, be prepared to do so on either of these days.

Just a heads up, we will meet in the library for Session 27 with our guest speaker, Audrey Maretzki in order to learn more about the indigenous knowledge issues you identified in the last class.

Session #22 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1.Would ECHO be interested in partnering with Agripreneurs of Haiti?

•  Contact and speak personally to our Guest Speaker

2.What is the different between International Ag and International Horticulture?

• Contact our Guest Speaker and learn more about his work

3.Technologies use at the resource center for seed saving?

•  More information -check this link

4.How well have small farm resource centers worked in various situations?

• Stories of different project around the world-ECHO Blog
• Refer reading assign for session #22-MEAS

5.The diverse environment in India and the variety of crops they can grow

• Agriculture in India-Check this link

6.Extension program in India

•  Refer readings assign by guest speaker for session #22

What did you learn?
1. Different approaches to teach in developing nations
2. Farmers use same seeds repetitively
3.Agriculture extension in poor areas
4.The importance of leaders role in getting people to adapt new ideas
5.About India and SFRC model
6.USAID project limitation: Time & Relationship
7.Pro & Cons of the Green Revolution in India
8.The brilliant idea of the resource center
9. The SFRC extension model focuses on the local farmers and teaching through on and off center demonstration and building relationship in the community

What do you want to learn more about?

1.Female farmers and extension program for women farmers in India

•   Article 1: MEAS Case Study in India-link
•  Article 2: Improving women farmers' access to extension services- Link

2. How to get involve in seed saving or micro finance career

• ECHO career opportunities-check this link

3.In what region are the resource center created in future

• learn more about ECHO center -link

4.MESA

• MEAS USAID- Website

5. Website presented in the presentation

• echonet.org
• http://www.meas-extension.org/

Help! So many assignments due!

This is the time of the semester when I encourage everyone to get organized and get in as many assignments as possible before the rush at the end of the semester.  Any assignment may be turned in EARLY!

If you need help with any assignments please contact me to set up an individual meeting.  I am also happy to proofread and provide comments on any documents you would like to send me via email.  Do not hesitate to ask!

Session #21 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. Can we work together on making our presentation into an efficient logic model?

• Not clear what are you referring to. Talk to your instructors

2. What do they learn in Program Evaluation graduate courses

• Example of courses AEE 450 Program Design and Delivery 

What did you learn?

1. The knowledge, skill, and dispositions that we developed and can apply because of this project
2.Importance of Framework
3.What Pedagogy is
4.Output vs outcomes
5.Organize and work together to gain information as a team
6.Smart goals
7. Global Competencies

What do you want to learn more about?

1. What evaluation program are there for PA 4-H program

• Find more information from  4-H Youth Development Team

Session #19 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. Integration of what was learned today into future lesson

• Global competencies

2. Does our final for this assignment have to be a paper? or can we present in different ways?

• It could be in any format

3. How we further approach developing our global competencies

• Check out  video posted on YouTube on under 'Global Competencies Project Vlog'.

4. Why is vocational & technical is not advertise as much as business or enginneering?

• This is an article about VET in Asian Perspectives

What did you learn?

1. Knowledge, Skill, Disposition
2.How everyone's pick one project are going and what they are getting out of it
3.Global competencies
4.Networking is important in keeping this valuable relationship
5.Problem associated with interacting with students outside of the country
6.Other student's awesome experience with their pick one project
7.That networking is a skill that was developing from the pick 1 assignment
8.New tactic for emailing my pen pal
9.About my classmates' experience. It was fun talking to everyone.

What do you want to learn more about?

1.Definition of global competencies

• This is a simple article on the definition of global competencies by NAFSA

3.Making this I believe draft better

• Talk  to your instructors 

China Agriculture Education Questions Responses

1.      Farmers

Do people that work in the Ag. industry take pride in their work as farmers in America do? Are people encouraged to pursue careers in agriculture?

No. In China, there is a social stigma with farmers. Farmers are considered as dirty, poor, and less educated, with low social status.

2.      Small-scale farm.

What percentage of farms are still small-scale? How much of the countries’ agricultural output is done in totally vs. small farms?

China currently relies heavily on small-scale farms. The statistics from Ministry of Agriculture (2013) show that the number of farmers working in large-scale farm accounts for 0.28% of the total farmers. The large-scale farms account for 7.3% of the total arable area, and the grains output in large farms accounts for 12.7% of the total grains output.

3.      Does the government have a big say in what agricultural crops are grown?

No. Our government did so in the past (before 1978) when our economic structure was planned economy. At that time, government did make the decision of what crops and how many should be grown. 1978 witnessed the economic marketing reform. Under current system, farmers today have the right to plan their farm work. Now China’s economic system is “communist marking economic system”. In my opinion, it is actually in the middle way between marketing economy and planned economy. In ordinary area, we have the right to make our own decision, but in some important areas which are highly related to national security, such as petroleum, communication and bank, our government is the controller.

4.      Since women make up a high percentage of farm labor, are there education programs that focus on women?

Yes. China National Women’s Federation has since 1989 organized activities entitled “Literacy Education for Women” and “Competition in Learning Knowledge and Technique”, which enabled a large number of illiterate women to become literate. According to the statistics, by the end of 2004, more than 20 million illiterate women had become literate; nearly 100 million women had mastered one or two applied techniques for production; 2.4 million women had got rid of poverty; 15 million women had attended the courses offered by Correspondence Agricultural University and Agricultural Broadcast School; over 600,000 women had got the academic title of “agricultural technician”; and a large number of women had made outstanding contributions to the development of local economy.

5.      It is estimated that by 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women, how do you think it will affect the agricultural production?

Although generally China has more men than women, actually more women stay in rural areas than men do. There are 150-200 million migrant workers who leave from rural areas to cities, and 2/3 are men. Now, the female labor accounts for 60-70% in agriculture. What our government concerns is that in rural areas women are less educated and less skilled than men, so the feminization of agriculture would make the agricultural activities less efficient. Therefore now there are more education programs focusing on women in rural areas.

6.      Machinery. Why are tractors or mechanical tools not used as frequently in production of Ag. products? Are farmers adapting to mechanical farming or sticking to traditional methods?

Less mechanical tools are used in China for many reasons. 1. Machinery manufacturing technology level is still fall behind. 2. Farmers’ income in rural areas is so low that they cannot afford expensive machine. 3. Most farms are small-scale where farmers can manage it without using machine. Besides, I’m not sure if this is related to culture. From my observation, I found that Americans use machines and tools more frequently in every aspect than Chinese do. We rarely use machine if we can do by our hands.

Currently most farmers are still sticking to traditional methods, although government is trying to improve the degree of mechanization. I think China still has a long way to go.

7.      What’s your personal experience with agriculture? Are any of your family members involved in Ag?

I don’t have much experience with agriculture. My grandma and uncle used to live in a small village and I just visited them in summer vacations. I remember when I was young, they rent some land to grow tea, vegetables, fruits and chicken, and I would help them with a little farm work. After I went to high school, my uncle became one of those migrant workers leaving from the small village to the city.

8.      Migrant worker. What about the income levels of factory workers? Can they sustainably support their family? Do many families leave together from rural areas to urban areas?

I cannot tell an exact number of the factory workers’ income, because it varies significantly between different cities. However, I’m sure the income of migrant workers is lower than other workers in urban areas. Although their income is lower than others, it is still higher than the money from doing agricultural activities in rural areas, so they can sustainably support their family. Most families did not leave together. The reasons are complicated. We have household registration system (Hukou in Chinese), which requires citizens to register as permanent residents in their usual place of abode and the local government only provides residents who have local hukou with welfare. Migrant workers who come to cities generally do not have urban hukou, so they are actually deprived of housing, health care, education etc. I believe this is the main reason most migrant workers do not take their children and family with them to urban cities.

Global Learning Plan

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Session #17 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. Are there other opportunities similar to Peace Corp?

• AmeriCorps
• AgriCorps

2. Amount of time a peace corp must stay in an assignment before going home?

• Peace Corps service is 27 months.  Volunteers may visit home after serving for 6 months.

3.Peace Corp

• About Peace Corp

4.Where Peace Corp work after service?

• RPCVs work in all sectors.  This link might be helpful.

5.How our guest speaker time in the peace corp affected the choice of path they took career wise afterword?

• Our guest speaker would be happy to speak to students about this in person!

6.How many successful peace corps volunteer enter with almost no language experience at all

• The three months of pre-service language training, while living with a host family, equips most volunteers with intermediate language proficiency (which continues to improve throughout the two years of service).

7.Grad option relating to Ag and Global development

• Talk to your instructors

8.Is there any short term project that we can involve in Peace Corp (less than 2 years)

• There is a program called Peace Corps Response, but this is only open to Returned Peace Corps Volunteers or to those who have at least 10 years of relevant work experience.

What did you learn?
1. Much better understanding of the peace corp program
2.Flexibility and cultural sensitivity are the most important skills to have
3.About the Peace Corp
4.People of all ages,life situations, etc serve in the peace corp
5." You don't need much to teach''
6.The peace corp is very competitive program
7.Peace corp are only allowed in stable countries and countries who requested for peace corp
8.The mission of the peace corp
9.Average age of peace corp volunteer age is 28 years old
10. One in three applicant become volunteer
11.A lot opportunities for agriculture majors
12.Benefit within the organization and the influence of volunteers
13. Information to join peace corp and a recruiting center at Penn State 
14.Amazing peace corp opportunities

What do you want to learn more about?

1.Peace Corp success stories

• Check here for volunteer story archive  

2.How a country is determined to be stable

•  Social , economic and political. This link might provide more explanations

3.Application process for countries to get peace corp volunteer

• This link provide some information on countries involve with Peace Corp.

4.Peace corp projects

•  Peace Corp Passport Blog

5. Living arrangement for peace corp volunteers

• All volunteers live with host families during pre-service training.  During their two years of service, some volunteers live with host families and some live on their own (it varies country to country). Check out this link for some photos.  Also, many volunteers have posted Youtube videos of their housing under 'Peace Corps cribs'.

Readings for Session 17

Readings for Session 17 on March 18 are #4 and #13.  Here's some details about how to proceed:

Reading #4:

• Read the introduction, plus one personal account from each of the four sections.
• Read the teaching suggestions that follow each personal account. 
• Think about how you might incorporate similar lessons into an agricultural or environmental education program. 
• Be prepared to ask the Peace Corps representative one specific question related to how lessons learned from Peace Corps experiences are shared with others.

Reading #13

• Click the link to find the reading: http://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/learn/whatlike/ownwords/366/
• Be prepared to ask the Peace Corp representative and our guest returned Peace Corps volunteer to share examples from their own experiences that relate to the themes found in this reading.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Session #13 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. How other country do agriculture education?

• We will have other guest speakers representing other countries in coming sessions 

2.What are the relationship between the two island (peninsular Malaysia and east Malaysia)

• East Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak ) Join Malaysia in 1963. Read more about the history how Malaysia is formed here

3.Environmental program in Malaysia

• One of the programs is eco-school.
• Volunteer opportunities in environmental conservation in Malaysia -information

4.What are pacific classes people take during a teacher preparation program

• It depends on the programs

5.Availability for Malaysian students to explore electives

• Electives only offered for student age 16-17 in high schools. Most of the electives are vocational courses.  

6. Do you study aboard/ student teaching in Malaysia

• Teacher students in Malaysia is often send to Indonesia either to volunteer or as part as teacher training experience. 

7. How the technical/vocational colleges compare to the U.S

• Technical college focuses to prepare student for college (engineering & technology program), Vocational college focuses to prepare student for vocation

8. How often student in Penn State get opportunity to TA?

• Information about Penn State Teaching and Research Assistantship 

9.How are GDPs' figure calculated

10.What is the main issues in Ag Education Malaysia?

• Last year Malaysia upgrades to school-based assessment application,  and raises a lot of issues.

What did you learn?

1. Malaysia is very interesting multicultural area
2. I learned more about Ag Education in Malaysia
3.The history of Malaysia prior to its independence
4.Higer standard for students in America
5.Our expectation to teach in are ambitious in comparison to what is taught .
6.The Malaysian people, culture and much more
7. How to become a Malaysia teacher
8. The process to become an Ag teacher in Malaysia and how it's different from here
9.What is being taught at different ages in Malaysia education in Ag
10. Bloom's taxonomy
11.General education plan currently in use in Malaysia
12. School system in Malaysia in relation to Agriculture
13.Difference in Malaysia Ag

What do you want to learn more about?

1. Does Malaysia ever use American Ag. Edu as an example for their programs?

• Yes

2. How work-study programs can be developed in Malaysia?

• One program using this model and successful in Malaysia TVET is Malaysia Dual Training System
• In 1999 Malaysia piloted a school to work program involving 500 high school students. However due to several problem it was differed. 

3. Is college in Malaysia no more than 2-3 years?

• 2-3 year for a Associate Degree
• 3-4 year for a Bachelor Degree

4. What did Dr. Foster mean about developing a program?

• We will address this in the next three sessions

5. Nur mom's best friend/neighbor who taps rubber

• We can chat about in class.

6. If 16-17 year old focus at all on college?

• Focus both on college and vocation

7. Blooms taxonomy

• Description on Bloom's Taxonomy

8. How does religion affect school and how students get along

• Religious belief and culture had a great impact on the school system in many ways. This is an interesting article to read.