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Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: featured in Contact magazine

the present issue of the Ministry of Education's Contact magazine - which bills itself as the teachers' digest - has a feature on our work with teachers from the Mathematics department at Yio Chu Kang Secondary School.

issue #31 - July to September 2018 - has an interview with a student-teacher from the Ministry's Teaching Scholar programme, with whom our team had the distinct privilege of interacting with over the course of a year under the Nanyang Technological University's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme.

our team is very grateful to the Communications Division of the Ministry for so kindly deeming our work worthy of sharing with the wider community of teachers.

Maker Motes and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): appointment as Research Mentor

through God's grace, a collaboration between my team and a small inter-divisional team from the Ministry of Education here in Singapore, will be starting next year.

we just received the wonderful news that our application for funding of approximately US$25000 has been approved, and this means we will be able to work with teachers from two schools on taking our Maker Motes approach to new contexts of learning.

i am very grateful for this partnership, because they are presently all too rare and the diversity of perspectives each party brings can only strengthen the design of the learning intervention.

my team and i are very excited about this collaboration, which is titled an exploratory study on how a GIS-based inquiry empowered with unstructured making can lead to better decision making in students about their school environment.

Guide to developing digital games for early grade literacy for developing countries: at this year's symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance

i'm currently attending this year's symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance, during which i shared on 'Schools in Indonesia exploring local micro-climates'.

here's a pic from the All Children Reading booth :-) if you look carefully, you might spot the guidebook on developing digital games for early grade literacy, that my team and i were commissioned to write :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes: pre-conference workshop at National Tsinghua University

back in June, i shared that through God's grace, i will be delivering a keynote at the International Conference on Educational Innovation (ICEI) 2018, at National Tsinghua University.

my team and i have also been invited to facilitate a series of pre-conference workshops there, themed on STEM-based curriculum design.

we are very much looking forward to a time of rich interaction and collaboration with our friends and partners from Hsinchu Teachers' College :-)

AGE08D Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things - student projects

this academic semester, my team and i have been facilitating the inaugural run of a course we conceptualised - AGE08D Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things.

we have been very impressed by the thought that our students have put in to their respective projects.

one group has conceptualised an inquiry-led investigation around the food sciences, while another project encourages learners to think about the site and situation of an eco-garden.

the photograph below represents another project, which was conceptualised entirely by the students and aligns very well with the Smart and Green initiatives of our parent university - the Nanyang Technological University. it is intended to lead towards more optimal energy use at the canteen of the National Institute of Education (NIE).

for each of these projects, our students and my team would like to thank the support given by NIE Senior Leadership, the staff and management of the Development & Estate Department, as well as the staff and management of the Centre for Innovation in Learning, of the NIE.

Maker Motes at this year's symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance

i am happy to share that the work of my team and my collaborating partners at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, on the use of open-source microclimatic sensors (which we have dubbed Maker Motes) is to be shared during the 8th annual symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance, in Washington DC, from the 6th to the 8th of November this year.

the title of my sharing is Schools in Indonesia exploring local micro-climates :-)

though God's grace, i attended last year's symposium and i found it really fulfilling.

i hope to see you there!

overseas guests to AGE08D Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things

i am very grateful that my team's General Elective AGE08D - Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things - has been able to benefit from the exchange of perspectives from overseas visitors.

last week, we were joined during our field investigations by Professor Michael Schratz, of the University of Innsbruck.

today, doctoral candidate Fabiano Kuss - from the Federal University of Parana - very generously took time to share his work on a learning platform specifically for use in resource- and infrastructure-poor learning environments.

obrigado, Fabiano!

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes at the international conference of the Bulgarian Geography Society

i will be visiting Sofia to present a paper at this year’s international conference of the Bulgarian Geography Society, on either the 2nd or 3rd of November.

This year’s conference is very special because it celebrates the centenary of the Society; the conference itself is themed on ‘Smart Geography’.

my co-authors are Yuen Ming De, Joshua Lee, Ahmed Hilmy, Vu Hieu Nguyen and Sim Jun You; our paper is titled Facilitating the understanding of learners of their local micro-climates using open-source sensors: a two-site case study of Singapore and Hanoi, and will be part of a session hosted by Karl Donert on Geography Education.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: NTU / NIE unrestricted elective AGE08D - consider joining our class :-)

it’s not too late to sign up for our NTU / NIE unrestricted elective AGE08D Designing learning environments:a focus on the Internet of Things :-)

if you are an undergraduate at the NTU / NIE, we would be happy to meet you :-)

our first lesson took place earlier today :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: keynote at the International Conference on Educational Innovation (ICEI) 2018

i was very humbled to receive an invitation to present a keynote address at this year's International Conference on Educational Innovation (ICEI) 2018.

the conference is hosted by the Hsinchu Teachers' College of the National Tsing Hua University, and will take place on the 16th and 17th of November.

the theme for this year's conference is the present and future of interdisciplinary education.

i am really grateful to the Dean of the College, and her staff, for the trust they have so graciously extended to me.

it would be great to be able to interact with some of you during the conference :-)