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David Santucci

I am a Teaching Lecturer in Health & Human Performance, where I teach a 3-credit, blended-format course entitled "Yoga History, Philosophy, and Practice." I am a neuroscience PhD and a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher. I have been studying yoga since the late 90s. After many years in the Greater Boston Area, I relocated to the Lakes Region in 2021. I live in Laconia with my wife and three young children, all of whom were born since we moved to New Hampshire.
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On Freedom and the Spirit

  • I know the module is over, but I really wanted to write a final reflection, and I found it difficult to find the time to do so in the alotted time. For me, the two most thought-provoking readings in the module were Henry Giroux’s “Rethinking Education as the Practice
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Repetition

  • This is a picture of my daughter’s copy of “Goodnight Moon.” As you can see, it has been read and re-read many times over. The book itself contains little more than drawings of the same room over and over. I think the process of learning very often involves coming
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Recent Comments by David Santucci

  • Hi, I'm David. I am a scientist by training, and I am a yoga teacher. At PSU I teach a 3-credit... More >>
    Comment on: Tell about yourself in a few sentences! Who are you and why are you here?
    Posted on: 09/26/2023
  • End human suffering, or maybe build a wooden boat... More >>
    Comment on: This is a “practice” question for Orientation: What is one thing you would do if you knew you could not fail at it?
    Posted on: 08/29/2023

Latest Annotations from David Santucci

  • There are probably some very specific cases, like teaching someone studying to be a medical... More >>
    Annotation on: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
    Posted by: dsantucc
    Posted on: 10/06/2023
  • Why so fatalistic? Look at what's happened with same-sex marriage, and marijuana legalization for... More >>
    Annotation on: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
    Posted by: dsantucc
    Posted on: 10/06/2023
  • I would certainly say that education as we tend to be talking about it here (primarily K-12 and... More >>
    Annotation on: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
    Posted by: dsantucc
    Posted on: 10/06/2023
  • I wonder if this might have something to do with class. There was a time when higher education was... More >>
    Annotation on: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
    Posted by: dsantucc
    Posted on: 10/06/2023
  • The reality is that neuroscience doesn't have a lot of light to shed on the kinds of mental... More >>
    Annotation on: Neuromyths in Education: Prevalence and Predictors of Misconceptions among Teachers
    Posted by: dsantucc
    Posted on: 10/05/2023

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Stop Five: Exploring Your Portfolio

This page is your personal workspace in Design Forward. Whenever you complete an activity in a module, it will be posted here. In addition, you can add portfolio items at any time. At the bottom of the page, you will see a gray bar with options to add images, files, videos, text reflections, or workbook pages. 

On the right, you will see your most recent comments and annotations as well as any questions you’ve asked. 

Your portfolio lives outside of any individual module — it is available across your entire Design Forward experience. If you click on the Participants link  you will be able to see everyone else participating in a module and visit their portfolios. They can visit yours as well. 

Take some time to explore the options in your portfolio; you don’t need to add anything at this time. When you’re done click the “Back to the Map” button.

At the end of this stop in the Orientation journey, you will have 

  • Understand how content is added to your portfolio
  • Learned that your portfolio is available across all the DF modules you participate in.