Ring-tailed lemur: Lego Education Ambassador Program Application, and Teaching Philosophy July 26, 2022 * Glad that the WUaS Press Bookstore / Robotics' Store is an official carrier of 3 Lego Robotics' kits - Mindstorms, Lego Spike Prime, and Lego WeDo2 robotics' kits

Lego Education Ambassador Program and Teaching Philosophy Tuesday, July 26 2022

Philosophy

My role as a teacher is to provide a forum that facilitates students to think and question – and play, have fun and converse in their learning - and to recognize that the world can’t be reduced to a right or wrong or black and white argument.

The world is messy and complicated, and I seek to teach in a way that facilitates students navigating in the world, potentially with language.

Cultural differences that form people’s understanding of concepts that we take for granted - such as law, justice, and morality - become a focus in my teaching, and part of critical thinking as learning for my students.

I seek to encourage students to open their eyes, think for themselves, and ask critical questions.

In many ways, my wiki World University & School teaching philosophy, and regarding Lego Robotics - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - building on Lego Education philosophies ("Take students' learning to new heights with a hands-on approach to STEM, Make your classroom unique, just like your teaching style," and "A personalized learning program that inspires teachers to learn, practice, and master competencies that support playful, hands-on STEAM learning with maximum impact on student outcomes," and "Build, Code, Learn," and "Joyful, Meaningful, Actively engaging, Iterative, Socially interactive"), seeks to facilitate student play, - and newly online potentially in a Physical-Digital realistic virtual earth for Lego Robotics' - creatively, and via kinds of learning and teaching conversation, via language as well.

GENERAL INFORMATION

General information about you and how we can reach you with updates.

1.First Name

Scott GK

2.Last Name

MacLeod

3.Email

sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

4.Mobile Phone Number

4124780116

5.Work Phone Number

4154804577

SCHOOL INFORMATION

This information will be used for informational purposes and to aid in research and product development for LEGO Education.

6.School Name

World University and School

7.School Address

PO Box 442, 670 Ridgecrest Road

8.School Website

http://WorldUniversityAndSchool.org

9.Type of School

Public

Private

Charter

Career and technical

Online universities in ~200 countries, and wiki schools in 7151 known living languages for all ages

10.Ages/grades of students served (select all that apply)

Early Childhood

Grades K-2

Grades 3-5

Grades 6-8

11.What is the average class size at your school?

Seeking to build on the class size potential of CC-4 licensed "CS First with Google at

World Univ & Sch" - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home

12.Please include any other information that you think is important to know about the demographics of your school or district.

Seeking to offer online free degrees at the International Baccalaureate level, Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, & MD levels in all 200 countries, and in their states, and especially in their counties or county-equivalent.

13.What standards are you teaching to (i.e. Common Core, NGSS, ISTE Nets, CTE, etc)? 

World Univ & Sch is building on CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU (in 7 languages currently) and CC-4 CS First with Google at WUaS as standards

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Please note that you will be required to send your CV and current photo to community@lego.com to complete your application.

14.Job Title

President, CEO, Founder, Professor, Presiding Clerk

15.Grade Level(s) you work with

World Univ & Sch seeks to offer free online high school degrees in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages (as well as free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD degrees, in each of 200 countries) ... and potentially with WUaS Home Robotics

16.Job Description

Developing CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki World Univ & Sch, eg, see -https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

17.How long have you been working as a teacher?

~45 years

18.Please provide a brief bio (3-5 sentences maximum)

Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Information Technology Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology and Sociology at CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki World University and School (http://ScottMacLeod.com). A passionate educator, he is World University and School's founder, president, CEO, and presiding clerk (in the manner of un-programmed Friends/Quakers). Regarding WUaS and LEGO Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics, MacLeod is seeking to develop best approaches to building out Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, and IB degree pathways, for example, with this CC-4 LICENSED MIT OCW course - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and also WUaS also seeks to develop a related realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics, and in a realistic virtual universe / one realistic virtual earth potentially in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate with realistic Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records.  MacLeod is currently also the CEO and publisher at the Academic Press at World University and School, planned in 7,151 known living languages with machine translation and machine learning. The related Physical-Digital WUaS Educational Services' Stores has been an official carrier of 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the USA for years now - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. MacLeod's research focuses on the information technology (revolution) network society age, the world wide web cosmos, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and see, for example, these "Doubleday's Hummingbird: 5 UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' talks in recent years 2012-2020 ... " -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html.

19.List your degrees / certifications / educational institutions attended and dates of graduation

2003-2004 – D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies – Thesis Topic: UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’

2001-2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on sociocultural anthropological theory and information technology

Yoga - Certificate in 2 year program from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco (1991), completed in 1 year

1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

1979 – Diploma, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

20.What committees / leadership roles have you served on within your school?

Scott GK MacLeod is the President, CEO, Founder, Professor, Presiding Clerk of both wings of WUaS: 1) World University and School, and 2) WUaS Corporation. In addition, he also currently serves on the Academic Credit Committee at WUaS, and is clerk of the Languages/Nation States' Committee at WUaS.

See, for example:

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation

NETWORKING EXPERIENCE

Share how you have supported or participated in other networks, ambassador programs or within the educator community.

21.Are you a member of other professional teacher networks? (If so, please list them.)

Friends Association for Higher Education (Quaker FAHE), 1501 Cherry Street,

Philadelphia, PA 19102 - https://quakerfahe.com 

Tourism Studies’ Working Group (TSWG), Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.tourismstudies.org

22.Are you a member of other ambassador programs or educator groups? (If so, please list them.) 

NA

23.Please list any speaking engagements or panels that you have been a part of.

https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivAndSch -

https://www.youtube.com/ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html?m=1 -

24.Are you active on social media related to your school or classroom? (If so, please share an example.)

Most active here -

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand ~

See, too -

"Here are WUaS's & Scott's Social Media pages"

http://scottmacleod.com

25.Do you regularly participate in Twitter or other social media chats or groups?  (If so, please list them.) 

Occasionally in some Twitter social media chats in non-English languages, but am awaiting real real time voice translation

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Share more about your approach to education.

26.What is your teaching philosophy? 

In many ways, my wiki World University & School teaching philosophy, and regarding Lego Robotics - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - building on Lego Education philosophies ("Take students' learning to new heights with a hands-on approach to STEM, Make your classroom unique, just like your teaching style," and "A personalized learning program that inspires teachers to learn, practice, and master competencies that support playful, hands-on STEAM learning with maximum impact on student outcomes," and "Build, Code, Learn," and "Joyful, Meaningful, Actively engaging, Iterative, Socially interactive"), seeks to facilitate student play, - and newly online potentially in a Physical-Digital realistic virtual earth for Lego Robotics' - creatively, and via kinds of learning and teaching conversation, via language as well.

27.What does playful learning mean to you and how do you integrate play into the classroom? 

28.What is your favorite teaching moment? 

29.How did it impact you and your students?

30.What do you think is the biggest challenge facing students today, and how are you responding?