voyeurism

Maker Motes: our first Arduino workshop for geography teachers

through our Maker Motes approach, our team has been helping schools with open-source hardware for nearly four years.

we have been very privileged to have been able to do so.

through our recent partnership with a small inter-divisional team from the Ministry of Education, we had the opportunity to conceptualise and conduct our first Arduino workshop for geography teachers :-)

Maker Motes in pre-service geography teacher education course on catchment conservation and management

following on from my post ten months' ago, in which i shared about a collaboration with my friends from the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education, my team and i were very privileged today to participate in AAG33B, a course for pre-service geography teachers, themed on Catchment Conservation and Management, conducted by A/P Kim Irvine.

:-)

Maker Motes: investigating wind and rain

our team has been working with teachers from schools both locally and regionally in helping craft curriculum for more authentic geography learning and STEM integration.

here's a pic from one of our more recent collaborations - we found it particularly exciting to combine traditional meteorological instruments with the Internet of Things :-)

everything is awesome :-)

with all due acknowledgment to the LEGO multiverse, our students and us had a great time yesterday during class with LEGO Mindstorms :-)

as tutors of AGE08D Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things, we would like to express our deep gratitude to LEGO Education Singapore for making these enriching sessions possible.

:-)

The Internet of Things (IoT) at the National Institute of Education: reported in the publication NIEWS December 2018

back in July, i shared how our team hosted a visiting delegation of teachers and faculty from the National Tsinghua University.

the current issue of the National Institute of Education (NIE) publication NIEWS (December 2018 - February 2019) mentions the visit in the context of a report on the Internet of Things (IoT) at the NIE.

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research - Special Issue on ‘Pedagogy - taking stock and looking forward’ is published

Six months’ ago, i shared a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, themed on ‘Pedagogy - taking stock and looking forward’.

It was a tremendous privilege to be the Guest Editor for this issue, in collaboration with co-editor  Dr Catia Ferreira, of the Portuguese Catholic University.

The issue has been especially meaningful to me because it marked the tenth anniversary of a landmark issue of the journal, namely Volume 2 Number 1, which was themed on ‘Pedagogy’. That issue was helmed by the late Dr Leslie Jarmon, and she taught me a great deal about how to be a worthy issue editor.

Leslie was a friend and mentor to so many of us in the virtual worlds fraternity, and i would like to dedicate the publication of the two-part tenth anniversary issue to her memory and life’s work.

The anniversary issue is out and is available in two parts, namely Vol 11 No 3 and Vol 12 No 1.

The issue comprises the following papers - do enjoy reading them :-)

Marginalised urban indigenous youth and the virtual world of Second Life: understanding the past and building a hopeful future, by Joe Cloutier

Designing digital badges to improve learning in virtual worlds, by Joey R Fanfarelli

Student perception of open and mobile space designs for autonomous English Language learning in Second Life, by Dean Anthony Fabi Gui

The game of inventing: ludic heuristics, ontological play, and pleasurable research, by Jacob Steven Euteneuer

A teaching method based on virtual worlds and mastery learning, by Felipe Becker Nunes, Aliane Loureiro Krassmann, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco, and Jose Valdeni de Lima

Representations of novice conceptions with Learner-Generated Augmentation: a framework for curriculum design with Augmented Reality, by myself, Kelvin H.-C. Chen, Sheau-Wen Lin, Jong-Chin Huang, Kristal S-E Ng, Joel J L Ng, Yifei Wang, and Nicholas Woong

Practical learning in virtual worlds: confronting literature with Health Educators’ perspectives, by Kate Dagleish and Mary Laurenson

Alternative embodied cognitions at play: evaluation of audio-based navigation in virtual settings via interactive sounds, by Enrico Gandolfi and Robert Clements

Pedagogy of productive failure: navigating the challenges of integrating VR in to the classroom, by Marijel Melo, Elizabeth Bentley, Ken S. McAllister, and Jose Cortez

Virtual Reality in education: focus on the role of emotions and physiological reactivity, by Mikko Vesisenaho, Merja Juntunen, Paivi Hakkinen, Johanna Poysa-Tarhonen, Jane Fagerlund, Iryna Miakush, and Tiina Parviainen