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Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: sharing with visitors from National Tsinghua University (2019)

parting is always bittersweet.

i took this picture at the conclusion of the workshop my team and i conducted today for teachers and graduate students visiting through the good graces of the National Tsinghua University.

:-)

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education - Special Issue on 'Maker-centered Science and Mathematics Education: Learning, Teaching and Environment Design'

one and a half year's ago, i shared a Call for Papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, themed on Maker-centered Science and Mathematics Education: Learning, Teaching and Environment Design.

Prof Wang Tzu-Hua (National Tsing Hua University), Prof Jari Lavonen (University of Helsinki), Dr Alison Clark-Wilson (University College London) and i have been working diligently to bring the special issue to you :-)

i am happy to share that the editorial of the special issue is now online :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes / Learner-Generated Augmentation offered as part of NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2019/20

are you an NTU undergraduate eligible for the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2019/20?

if so, please do consider applying for either

NIE19036 Exploring the potential roles that game-based worlds and immersive environments play in learning, or

NIE19037 Exploring the development of maker dispositions in learning through open-source hardware and software :-)

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

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: report on 2016 / 2017 intervention is published

From 2016 to 2018, under two separate tranches of funding, my team and i had the privilege of working alongside Dr Ari Widodo of the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, in taking our Maker Motes approach with open-source environmental sensors in to schools in West Java.

the report for the first year of the intervention (2016 / 2017) - which was enacted under the auspices of Digital Learning for Development (DL4D) has been published.

Microclimate Studies in a STEM-Based Curriculum Using Open Source Hardware and Software is accessible here :-)

AGE08D Designing learning environments with the Internet of Things marks IoTDay 2019

April 9th is Global Internet of Things (IoT) day.

this year, our team chose to commemorate the occasion with our closing lesson of this semester's undergraduate elective AGE08D Designing learning environments with the Internet of Things.

AGE08D is an elective we have been offering to undergraduates of the Nanyang Technological University and the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

our team would like to take the opportunity to thank our students from the heart. it has truly been a privilege to have spent time interacting with - and learning alongside - you.

:-)

Introducing Accelerobot: surfacing novice intuition in mathematics with portable, programmable robots

in 2017 i shared news of a grant that my team and i were awarded, to develop portable, programmable robots for use in mathematics curriculum, specifically to help teachers address what have been termed Problems with Real-World Contexts.

unlike the majority of learning interventions involving robots, our focus when thinking about curriculum was not the coding of the robots, but more in terms of enabling novices to have a more embodied understanding of concepts in mathematics as they interacted with the robots.

it has taken us just under two years, and much trial and error.

through the process, we learned about fabrication, engineering, computational thinking, and principles of physics.

we have termed our curricular approach Accelerobot :-)

today, it was the turn of the teachers on the project to take over, and the very first lesson was conducted earlier this afternoon with Grade Seven students in a school in Singapore.

To God be the glory :-)

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 :-)

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 :-)