voyeurism

what's caught my eye at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2019

the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is always a highlight of the calendar, and this year is no exception.

here’s what’s caught my eye in this year’s programme :-)

• Integrating block-based coding in to scientific modelling lessons (Lucas Vasconcelos, ChanMin Kim)
• When middle school kids make: understanding the roles of scaffolding for troubleshooting to support inquiry (Hamid Nadir, Krista D Glazewski, Thomas Brush, Kyungbin Kwon)
• Supporting internal model representation in organic chemistry by using Augmented Reality (Sebastian Habig)
• The design and testing of haptically-enabled science simulations (James Minogue, David Borland, Marc Russo)

AERA 2019 runs from the 5th to the 9th of April, in Toronto :-)

Maker Motes: inaugural geography class in Singapore - data on ArcGIS

this past month, i have been sharing about how our team's Maker Motes approach has been appropriated by geography teachers in schools in Singapore.

my earlier posts were about how the teachers facilitated coding the Maker Motes, and how the students subsequently went about siting the Motes around their campus.

the project has been progressing apace and the data from the Maker Motes has now been integrated into ESRI ArcGIS for visualisation, for the very first time ever :-)

Chart-a-Path: surfacing learner intuition about electrical flow in analog circuits - published in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

our team is very, very excited and grateful to God that - after a wait of three years' - our work on the learning environment we developed to surface learner intuition about electrical flow in analog circuits (which we have dubbed Chart-a-Path) is finally documented and published in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education.

we are super excited because publishing in this journal is yet another demonstration of the robustness and flexibility of Disciplinary Intuitions as a learning theory.

Chart-a-Path has also proven itself to be scalable and translatable to different contexts of learning, having been used in a secondary school just last year :-)

to God be the glory!

Discover URECA@NTU 2019 poster exhibition held today :-)

further to my post last week about the poster exhibition of the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme of the Nanyang Technological University, here’s a pic of our booth, taken earlier this afternoon :-)

Helping student-teachers design for more authentic learning inquiry with the Internet of Things (IoT)

my first visit to Israel was about eight years' ago.

i am excited to have the opportunity to visit again, for a poster presentation at this year's 7th International Conference on Teacher Education, themed on the story of innovation in Teacher Education, to be hosted by the MOFET Institute from June 24th till the 26th.

i will be sharing on helping student-teachers design for more authentic learning inquiry with the Internet of Things (IoT).

i thank God for this opportunity.

:-)

Maker Motes: inaugural geography class in Singapore - students siting

last week, i shared about the very first geography learning unit in a regular Singapore school is taking place.

in that post, i described how the geography teachers took responsibility for the facilitation of the lesson in which the students coded the Maker Motes.

this past Monday, the lesson continued as a field-based activity, in which the students assembled the Maker Motes and placed them around the school campus, at locations decided upon by themselves.

to witness this learning unit unfolding has bee a true privilege.

Maker Motes: sharing with landscape architecture students from Thammasat University

we are very grateful to Prof Kim Irvine of the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education (NIE) for his invitation to interact with a visiting delegation of undergraduates from the faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Thailand.

here's a pic of our visit to the NIE raingarden :-)

Learner-Generated Augmentation at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference 2019

i am very happy to share that i will be able to facilitate a roundtable during this year's Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference.

the roundtable has been scheduled for 7 pm Eastern time on the 5th of April 2019. it is titled Learner-Generated Augmentation: curriculum design with Augmented Reality (AR).

thanks be to God for this opportunity.

:-)

[update: the webpage of the session has been posted :-) ]

Discover URECA@NTU poster exhibition 2019

the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme is an initiative by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

a little over five months’ ago, i shared on how my team and i were privileged to collaborate with two undergraduates in this year’s programme.

if you happen to be on campus on Friday the 15th, at any time in the afternoon, do consider dropping by the Nanyang Auditorium, where there will be a poster exhibition showcasing the undergraduates’ work :-)

Maker Motes: inaugural geography class conducted by teachers in a school in Singapore!

we've been working towards this for more than five years, and today our dream of a geography lesson designed and conducted by teachers themselves, in an authentic secondary school setting in Singapore finally came to fruition.

the lesson was conducted under the auspices of our partnership with a small inter-divisional team from the Ministry of Education, for which we are very grateful.

i would like to thank all the members of my team who have persevered over so many years to make this dream a reality.