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Biography - Beat Adrian Schwendimann
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My first name, Beat, is derived from the latin word beatus. Blessed"). I grew up in the German speaking part of Switzerland. After completing my junior college degree in economics, my interest in the complexity and diversity of life lead me to a M.Sc. in biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). My master thesis and my work with gifted children made me aware of my passion for education. I enrolled in the teacher credential program for junior college biology at ETH and received a mas...
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Curriculum Vitae - Beat Adrian Schwendimann
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PhD in Mathematics and Science Education. University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. Program Studies in Engineering, Science, and Mathematics Education (SESAME). Advisor Prof. Dr. Marcia C. Linn. Dissertation committee: Marcia Linn, Randi Engle, Leslea Hlusko. Thesis title: Mapping biological ideas: Concert maps as knowledge integration tools for evolution education. Fellow at the Center for Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS). Master of Arts in Education. Bachelor Exa...
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California Mwananchi: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Israeli Colonialism and Terror in Action. As is common when the Israeli state flexes its military muscles in one of its imperial wars, its defenders are resorting to an argument about the moral equivalency between rockets being launched at Israel from its colony, and Israel’s bombardment of and ground incursion into the colony. However much Israeli citizens might suffer from the bursts of dissatisfaction and violence brought about by their government’s colonial policy, the z...
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California Mwananchi: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Hillary Clinton Should Not Lead the Democratic Party. The right-wing U.S. presidential primary for 2016 grew by one on Sunday when Hillary Clinton announced her entry into the race, bringing with her the massed support of a personalized political machine hell-bent on overwhelming the Democratic Party’s democratic process with a barrage of political intimidation and cash. It was a war that destroyed the livelihoods, infrastructure, and civic institutions of a country and its resid...
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Publications - Beat Adrian Schwendimann
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Schwendimann, B. A. (2011). Mapping biological ideas: Concept maps as knowledge integration tools for evolution education. Dissertation]. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Direct download as: PDF format. ProQuest open access: ProQuest Dissertation Beat Schwendimann. Perceiving learning at a glance: A systematic. Literature review of learning dashboard research. IEE transactions on learning technologies journal. Rodriguez Triana, M. J., Prieto San...10108...
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California Mwananchi: Hillary Clinton Should Not Lead the Democratic Party
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Hillary Clinton Should Not Lead the Democratic Party. The right-wing U.S. presidential primary for 2016 grew by one on Sunday when Hillary Clinton announced her entry into the race, bringing with her the massed support of a personalized political machine hell-bent on overwhelming the Democratic Party’s democratic process with a barrage of political intimidation and cash. It was a war that destroyed the livelihoods, infrastructure, and civic institutions of a country and its resid...
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California Mwananchi: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Californians Need to Accept Responsibility for their Universities. The Los Angeles Times. Reported this morning that. 8220;California voters overwhelming oppose a tuition increase at University of California campuses, even if that forces the colleges to cut spending or accept more out-of-state students who pay higher fees”. The poll finds California’s voters at their most typically obtuse and obdurate. I hope that many Californians would agree that those are worthwhile ambiti...
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California Mwananchi: UC Irvine and the U.S. Flag
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. UC Irvine and the U.S. Flag. The week before last at the University of California, Irvine, the legislative branch of the student government voted to ban the display of the U.S. flag and other national flags in the lobby adjacent to the offices of the student government. The ban sparked outrage and accusations of treachery and a lack of patriotism, a veto from the student president, and a rebuke from the UC Irvine Chancellor. In a strange way the students’ actions were remini...
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Knowledge Integration Maps - Beat Adrian Schwendimann
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Figure 1: Knowledge Integration Map (KIM). A ' 'knowledge integration map' ' (KIM) is a discipline-specific form of or digital knowledge map (1).Concept maps are a form of node-link diagram for organizing and representing connections between ideas as a semantic network (2). KIMs consist of concepts and labeled arrows. Different from traditional concept maps, KIMs divide the drawing area into discipline-specific areas, for example in biology into genotype/phenotype (see figure 1). KIM starter map: Buildin...
