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Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings: excerpt of keynote during NIE ICT Seminar 2015

this is an excerpt of the keynote address given by the Managing Director of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) - Ms Jacqueline Poh - during the inaugural ICT seminar of the National Institute of Education (NIE).

in this excerpt, Ms Poh very kindly makes reference to the Six Learnings / Disciplinary Intuitions programme as an example of what the vision of Singapore as a Smart Nation means for learning.

we are very grateful to Ms Poh for her encouragement.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes at FabLearn Australia 2015

my team and i will be conducting a workshop at the inaugural FabLearn Australia on the 3rd of July :-)

our workshop is entitled Tapping into the learner’s sixth sense: using open-source hardware and software.

as my team’s work in this area is gathering momentum, i would like to take this opportunity to brand our work Maker Motes :-)

we are very grateful to God for this opportunity to share our work Down Under.

here is the abstract - do join us in Melbourne if you are able to :-)

This workshop describes a multi-disciplinary approach to a curriculum designed to help learners develop their graphicacy and data literacy in authentic ways (the ‘M’ in ‘STEM’). Local environments and micro-climates are complex systems which novice learners may initially find challenging to understand. Using datasets derived in real-time from their own school campus, learners are potentially able to interrogate the data in ways which would be contextualised to their own local knowledge of their school (the ‘S’ in ‘STEM’). The resulting analyses would therefore be more meaningful to the learners, as their own nascent preconceptions and intuitions about (say) factors influencing the local micro-climate around the school would be more easily surfaced and dialogued about. The datasets are generated from a wireless mesh of remotely connected sensors placed around the school campus, potentially at sites determined – at least in part – by the learners themselves (the ‘T’ in ‘STEM’). In turn, the sensors are designed and assembled using readily available open-source hardware and software, such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino (the ‘E’ in ‘STEM’). An example of such a sensor will be shown during the workshop, including details of ways in which they can be made rainproof and be independently and efficiently powered by long-lasting batteries.

Visiting Scholar to the Hong Kong Institute of Education :-)

by God’s amazing grace alone, i have been invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong Institute of Education!

i will be visiting from the 10th till the 14th of August, as a guest of the Institute’s Faculty of Education and Human Development.

the visit is in conjunction with the Blended and Online Learning and Teaching (BOLT) project: collaborative professional development for capacity building in blended and online learning and teaching in Hong Kong.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings and the geography curriculum

would you like to know how a geography curriculum might be enacted through the Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings programme?

issue 52 of the NIE quarterly newsletter Singteach has a write-up of the great work that the teachers at Ang Mo Kio Secondary School have been doing :-)

Geography_Singteach from Kenneth Lim

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes offered as part of NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme

are you an NTU undergraduate eligible for the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme?

if so, please do consider applying for either

NIE15001 Exploring the potential roles that game-based worlds and immersive environments play in learning, or

NIE15020 Exploring the development of maker dispositions in learning through open-source hardware and software :-)

it would be my privilege to work alongside you :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes at AHFE 2015 Las Vegas

i’ll be visiting Las Vegas to present a paper at the 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), on Tuesday 28th July.

my co-authors are Collin Chan and Richard Lee; our paper is entitled Exploring local micro-climates with an open-source mesh of sensor motes, and will be part of the 1st International Symposium on Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes - maker culture, STEM curriculum and field studies

Disciplinary Intuitions offers an elegant way to align several strands of interest to learners and educators today, such as maker culture, STEM, and an increasing emphasis on field-based studies.

The video above shows one such example, of how open-source hardware (such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino) can be used to help surface learners' intuitions about their local environments. The hardware serve as sensor nodes (or motes) with which micro-climatic data can be collected.

Through the collation and representation of such data from within environments already familiar to the learners, analyses are more authentic to them and understanding is more enduring.

if you would like to find out more about our programme, i will be presenting a paper at the 1st International Symposium on Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences in July.