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Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: an overview of the learning system

i have prepared a simple video to illustrate the pedagogical framing which undergirds our Maker Motes approach :-)

if you like what you see, here’s an example of how Maker Motes might be used for wider societal good :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings - debut of Chart-a-Path

This video represents the debut of a translation of Disciplinary Intuitions / the Six Learnings into an exciting realm, that of analog circuit design.

Nine months’ in the making, and primarily the work of Derek Chua in close consultation with A/P Andy Khong of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the learning environment is funded by an NTU ‘Excellence in Education’ (EdeX) grant and is being used in the first-year undergraduate course IM1002 Analog Electronics.

We have dubbed the approach ‘Chart-a-Path: Analog Circuits’ :-) it is hopefully the first of many iterations of the ‘Chart-a-Path’ design paradigm :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes - keynote address at the International Conference on Science Education (ICSE) in Bandung this April

this is just a quick note to thank the staff at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI), who have kindly invited me to keynote the International Conference on Science Education which will take place at the Bandung campus of the UPI on the 30th of April.

the conference is jointly hosted by the UPI and the Institut Pendidikan Guru, Malaysia.

terima kasih banyak :-)

closing a ninety-year loop: my family's history in Bandung

next week, i will be attending the first Regional Meeting of the Asia Research Grant Program, through which my team and i will have the opportunity work with the Vice-Dean for Academics and Student Affairs, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Science Education, at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Education University of Indonesia).

over the course of 2016 and 2017, my team and i will be working with schools from across the Indonesian archipelago - God willing - as we collaborate with teachers from urban and peri-urban contexts on designing STEM curriculum using our Maker Motes approach.

for me, this collaboration means a great deal, because ninety years ago, my grandfather moved from Penang to Java to become an English teacher.

his first posting was at a school in Semarang. according to my aunt, granddad used to hike around the area with an English colleague.

after he married my grandmother in 1927, they moved to Sukaraja, where he took up another teaching position. it was around this time that the first talking movie arrived in Java, and granddad apparently rode a horse-drawn cart from Sukaraja to Pekalongan to watch the movie :-)

in the early 1930s, granddad decided to start his own school, and he moved his young family to Bandung. the Bandung English School moved from site to site as it expanded. the second site was in Lengkong. the third and final site was along what was known as the Grote Postweg (Jalan Raya Pos / Jalan Asia-Afrika, today) and had two wings, a compound in front, a large reception hall, and classes were held at the back. one of the wings was the residence of my family, while the other wing housed the boarders. the school employed a diverse variety of the local Javanese, including a cook. grandmother pitched in too, both as a primary school teacher and as the keeper of the accounts. she picked up quite a few recipes from the cook :-) my great-grandmother was also part of the family there, and when she died she was buried in Cikadut.

it was in Bandung that my father was born in 1939. granddad would take his children every week to a government building to read the Dutch newspapers, and would doubtless have been keeping a close eye on the events of the Second World War.

when the war came to Java, granddad closed the school, sent the boarders home, and found a smaller house not too far from the site of the school, where the family lived until after the war.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes / at the first Regional Meeting of the Asia Research Grant Program

following on from last month’s post, here are more details on the Digital Learning for Development (DL4D) grant.

from the 27th till the 29th of January, i will be attending the first Regional Meeting of the Asia Research Grant Program, to be held at SEAMEO INNOTECH, at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City.

i am really looking forward to returning to SEAMEO INNOTECH because i have very fond memories of my visit there in 1997.

the list of my fellow awardees-to-be is diverse!

Dr Qiong Wang, Peking University

Mr Manoj Shakya, Kathmandu University

Dr Muhammad Muddassir Malik, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan

Dr Hyo-Jeong So, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Dr Alan Cheung, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Gihan Dias, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Ms Charisse Reyes, University of the Philippines Open University

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes at FabLearn Australia 2016

my team and i are very grateful to the organising committee of FabLearn Australia 2016 for inviting us back to Melbourne.

we still have very fond memories of the gracious hospitality extended to us by the Principal, staff, and students of Lauriston Girls’ School in Victoria last year.

this year’s FabLearn will run on the 20th and 21st of May.

do join us in Melbourne if you are able to :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes sharing session at the National Institute of Education, Singapore

i have been invited by the Office of Education Research at my home university to conduct a sharing session on Maker Motes :-)

for those of you in Singapore, it will be on Wednesday 20th January, from 9:30 to 10:30 am, at the Seminar Room on the second floor of Block 7 of the National Institute of Education.

do consider joining me if your respective schedules permit; it would be really nice to see you there :-)