voyeurism

Geographical Investigation (GI) with the Internet of Things - update on our grant

consideration has kindly been taken in to account of the current pause in school interventions, and the National Institute of Education has graciously extended our grant on Geographical Investigation (GI) with the Internet of Things such that it now ends in August 2023.

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Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes / Learner-Generated Augmentation offered as part of NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2020/21

are you an NTU undergraduate eligible for the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2020/21?

if so, please do consider applying for either

NIE20017 Exploring the potential roles that game-based worlds and immersive environments play in learning, or

NIE20018 Exploring the development of maker dispositions in learning through open-source hardware and software :-)

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

Geographical Investigation (GI) with the Internet of Things - data collection approval granted

My team and i are very grateful to our administrative colleagues at the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, and, to the Corporate Research Office, Ministry of Education, for so kindly granting us Data Collection Approval for our Geographical Investigation (GI) grant to help teachers design curricula around the Internet of Things (IoT).

Thanks to everyone's help, we received our Institutional Review Board approval from our university within 37 days, and our Data Collection Approval from the Ministry within 25 days.

We are so humbled by the help we have received with respect to this process.

If you are a teacher or school leader reading this, and if you would like to know more about our project, we would be privileged to engage you in conversation :-)

Maker Motes: learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) featured in the annual publication of the National Institute of Education :-)

my team and i are very grateful to A/P Tan Seng Chee, A/P Chang Chew Hung, and Dr Chua Bee Leng, as well as the hard-working team from the Centre for Innovation in Learning (in particular Mr Ray Thong), at the National Institute of Education, for so graciously affording us the opportunity to share our work on learning with the Internet of Things with a wider audience, through the Institute's annual publication, [email protected].

Specifically, the feature documents our General Elective offered through the Nanyang Technological University, namely AGE08D Designing Learning Environments with a Focus on the Internet of Things. we received the invitation to be featured in November 2018, and - given the context of the Covid-19 pandemic - we are particularly grateful to the editorial and publishing teams.

we thank God for this blessing.

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Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors

through God’s grace alone, my team and i received the news today that we have been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Education. titled Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors, the quantum of the grant is just over US$235000.

it looks to be a wonderfully exciting and meaningful journey ahead of us. all thanks be to God.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: paper addressing the threshold learning outcomes for the Australian curriculum in environmental science

a paper which i co-wrote with Dr Atul Sajjanhar and Ren Yuechao of Deakin University, addressing the threshold learning outcomes defined for the Australian curriculum in environmental science, has just been published.

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Pedagogical framework for environmental science is presently available through Springer's Education and Information Technologies.

i thank God for this opportunity to have been able to collaborate with my friend Atul.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: sharing with guests from Jiangsu Normal University

my team and i are very grateful to our colleagues from the National Institute of Education International, for their kind facilitation of a workshop themed on Disciplinary Intuitions and Maker Motes, for guests from Jiangsu Normal University.

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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!

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.

Disciplinary Intuitions shared with Daniel Bodemer from the University of Duisburg-Essen

earlier today, my team and i had the privilege of sharing our work with Prof Dr Daniel Bodemer, who is Head of Department, Psychological Research Methods, from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

we are grateful to Dr Elizabeth Koh for so kindly facilitating the introduction.

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