voyeurism

my team has been invited to share during the Gifted Education annual conference 2021

my team and i are excited and grateful to the Gifted Education Branch of the Ministry of Education, Singapore, for so kindly extending trust to us to be part of this year’s annual conference.

about 500 audience members are invited from among school leaders and teachers drawn from over forty primary and secondary schools across Singapore.

this year’s conference has as its theme ‘Timely changes, timeless constants’. it will be held as an online event on the 26th of November 2021. this opportunity is personally very exciting for me because it brings me back to the start of my career when i took electives on Gifted Education while i was training to be a teacher.

my team and i will be sharing our work in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, with examples drawn from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and the Digital Humanities.

Thanks be to God for His Gift of enabling grace.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes / AI & data science offered as part of NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2021/22

are you an NTU undergraduate eligible for the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2021/22?

if so, please do consider applying for

NIE21020 Exploring the potential roles that game-based worlds and immersive environments play in learning

NIE21021 Exploring the development of maker dispositions in learning through open-source hardware and software

NIE21152 Designing predictive models for analysing environmental sensor data from a network of IoT sensor devices

NIE21153 Exploring the role of coding, data science and machine learning in the Humanities classroom :-)

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

part of my PhD student's thesis published as 'Maker-centred Learning In An Undergraduate Elective Course'

over the past three and a half years i have had the singular privilege of co-supervising the PhD candidature of Koh Hon Jia. His thesis is titled A study of the development of interest in learning in a maker-centered learning environment through the lens of Cultural Historical Activity Theory.

i am very pleased to share that Hon Jia's candidature is at the stage where his oral examination is presently being arranged. 

just in time has been the heartening news that he has had his first publication, in Volume 11 No 1, the June issue of the Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 

visit our team's mini-campus in Frame VR

my team and i are very happy to invite you to visit a mini-campus - in Frame - which we have designed to showcase some of our work.

Frame is a website that lets people communicate and collaborate in a 3D space as avatars from a browser on desktop, mobile, or VR. It is currently still in beta.

for our mini-campus, we used one of the standard environments provided by Frame, and populated the space with examples of our work.

we are excited about Frame because the multiplicity of ways in which content may be accessed - from smartphone to full-blown desktop VR - coupled with the low barriers to access - visitors only need a standard web browser - points a way forward for immersive and VR learning spaces to come.

for example, Frame runs from a web browser on desktop (including Chromebook), mobile, or VR.

on desktops and notebooks, Frame is accessible through Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Chromium-based Edge browsers.
in stand-alone VR, Frame is accessible through the Oculus Browser.
on mobiles and tablets, Frame is accessible through Chrome on Android, and Safari on iOS.

do have a go :-)

a trajectory in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning

as my team's experience with Maker Motes and the Internet of Things has grown since our first forays eight years' ago, we have anticipated that the datasets generated by the sensor meshes we have emplaced within school campuses across Singapore would be growing, too.

in late 2019, we started monitoring the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science and Machine Learning (ML), especially as applied to learning and education. 

we have been dissatisfied with the extent to which the particular paradigm of using AI as tools for analysing student behaviour and performance has been pervasive in much conversation around education.

we challenged ourselves to continue exploring and keeping open minds, and, in - Steve Jobs's words - not to "settle".

we particularly also wanted to extend the narrative around AI, Data Science and ML beyond the traditional domains of Mathematics and Computer Science.

this year, together with some of our students, we conceptualised two examples of the applications of AI, Data Science and ML to the Digital Humanities.

the first is an idea for a History lesson unit in which a dataset of historical commercial voyages is visualised using the R programming language, in order to show the extent to which Singapore as a trading post in the 19th century was connected to other parts of the world.

the second is an idea for poverty mapping in which several years of satellite imagery is analysed using trained Machine Learning models in order to identify patterns of development across regions and countries in Southeast Asia.

through God's grace, and through the very kind invitation of Seoul National University, i will be sharing these projects on a session themed on Education Technology and the Learning Sciences, as part of the 21st International Conference on Educational Research (ICER) to be held on the 21st and 22nd of October.

all thanks be to God alone.

Credit: Lambert & Co., G.R. / Singapore
Leiden University Library, KITLV, image 150813 Collection page Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV)

thank you to the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education

i would like to thank my colleagues and mentors for the very gracious recognition.

with deep gratitude.

Maker Motes: a study on mealworms and the decomposition of plastic

are you squeamish :-)

in 2019, my team mentored two students under the auspices of our university's Nanyang Research Programme.

through God's grace, the study that resulted - Investigating the Plastic Decomposing Ability of Tenebriomolitor Using Carbon Dioxide Sensors - has just been published. 

my co-authors and i would like to express our deep gratitude to the editorial team at APD Trove for their patience and facilitation during this process.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: welcoming a Masters student to our grant on Geographical Investigations (GI) with the Internet of Things (IoT)

further to my post from six and half months' ago, my team and i are really happy and privileged to welcome a Masters student to our project associated with the grant we were awarded on Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors.

our student is from the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education.

she is doing an MA (Research) in Field Geography Pedagogy.

Maker Motes: the 2020 issue of the annual publication of the National Institute of Education has been published as physical copies

about four months' ago, i shared that the General Elective my team offers undergraduates of the Nanyang Technological University was featured in the annual publication of the National Institute of Education (NIE).

the physical copies of this year's issue are finally available at the campus of the NIE :-)

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.

:-)