voyeurism

Maker Motes at the Singapore International Science Teachers' Conference

our team is very grateful to officers from the Educational Technology Division of the Ministry of Education, Singapore - specifically Ms Tham Yoke Chun, Ms Jacqueline Tan, Lim Jing Jing, and Flavian Fernandez - for so generously affording us the opportunity to help them during the session titled Understanding quality science learning with Student Learning Space (SLS), during the recent Singapore International Science Teachers' Conference.

thank you, Ms Tham!

Royal Geographical Society career guide

the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has published a really useful guide for careers in geography.

the guide is available online and i am very humbled to have been given the opportunity to contribute my share to it. you can filter the vignettes by career stage and by geography specialisation.

it really is very inspiring reading :-)

Maker Motes: sharing at MENDAKI the Learning Festival 2019

last month, i shared that my team and i had been invited by MENDAKI to talk a little about our work under the auspices of MENDAKI the Learning Festival 2019.

my fellow presenters and i had a great time interacting with this morning's audience, with the Guest of Honour being Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, who - among other portfolios - has been the Minister for Communications and Information, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs and Minister in charge of Cyber Security, Minister for Community Development and Sports, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and Minister for the Information, Communications and the Arts, at various times in his long career.

at the end of the session, we were each presented with a freshly minted copy of Navigating Educational Development: MENDAKI and the Malays. This book was just published this year, and was written by Noor Aisha binte Abdul Rahman, and Idris bin Rashid Khan Surattee. Its foreword is contributed by Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

the book charts the history of MENDAKI from its early inceptions in 1982, to its growth to more than ninety centres across Singapore today. i am finding it a fascinating read.