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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.

:-)

The use of microclimatic data in authentic learning: a two-site case study between Hanoi and Singapore

last year, i shared about how a paper my team and i presented at the conference of the Bulgarian Geography Society (in commemoration of the centenary of the society).

the chapter arising from our paper has just been published, titled The use of microclimatic data in authentic learning: a two-site case study between Hanoi and Singapore.

my co-authors - Vu Hieu Nguyen, Sim Jun You, Yuen Ming De, and Joshua Lee - would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Smart geography: 100 years of the Bulgarian Geographical Society for so kindly extending us the opportunity :-)

Disciplinary Intuitions: Berkeley Graduate School of Education CD / SESAME Colloquium

through God's grace alone, i have been afforded the opportunity to share our team's work on Disciplinary Intuitions at a colloquium sponsored by the Cognition and Development program and the Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (informally known as SESAME) program, of the Graduate School of Education, Berkeley.

the CD program and SESAME run their Monday colloquiua for exchanging ideas, approaches, and innovations in education research. Events are free and open to the public.

SESAME is an interdisciplinary graduate program leading to a doctoral degree in science, mathematics, or engineering education. The program is designed to give graduates advanced expertise in a scientific discipline as well as in educational theory and research methodologies.

i love the Berkeley campus for its mixture of architectural elements, flora, and fauna. it will be such a privilege to visit and interact with faculty and students from the CD / SESAME programs on the 25th of November. i am deeply grateful to my hosts for the trust they have extended to me.

Maker Motes: sharing at the Digital Forum @ MENDAKI The Learning Festival 2019

through God's grace alone, our team has been invited to share our work on Maker Motes during this year's MENDAKI Learning Festival, on the 3rd of November.

Yayasan MENDAKI (Council for the Development of Singapore Malay / Muslim Community) is a pioneer Self-Help Group formed in 1982 dedicated to empower the community through excellence in education, in the context of a multi-racial and multi-religious Singapore.

MENDAKI's programmes are mostly developmental, in order to provide early assistance to the beneficiaries so that they will be school-ready, able to perform in school and ultimately be future-ready.

ours will be one of three presentations in the Digital Forum, which is part of the Learning Festival. our talk is scheduled some time between 9:30 am to 10 am, at Our Tampines Hub, 1 Tampines Walk.

that morning, we will be sharing on the topic of Learning everyday concepts with robots and the Internet of Things (IoT).

we hope to see you there!

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: welcoming a college student to NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) AY 2019 / 2020

further to my post five months’ ago, my team and i are really happy and privileged to welcome a college student to our project offered under NTU’s Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme for the Academic Year 2019 / 2020.

our student is from the School of Computer Science and Engineering.

the opportunity to participate in URECA is extended through invitation only to select second- and third-year undergraduates, who will subsequently be conferred as NTU President Research Scholars.

the project we have offered is:

NIE19201 - Exploring the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a school campus

Maker Motes introduced to the 2019 cohort of the Leaders in Education Programme

this morning, our team was extremely privileged to have been invited to collaborate with members of the Educational Technology Division (ETD), Ministry of Education, as part of the curriculum for this year's cohort of the Leaders in Education Programme (LEP), National Institute of Education.

we worked with our friends from the ETD to introduce the LEP participants to our Maker Motes approach to the design of STEM curriculum.

we would like to take the opportunity to thank the leadership team of the ETD for so graciously extending their trust to us.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: sharing with guests from Central China 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 Central China Normal University.

:-)

Maker-centred multidisciplinary learning – preparing future-ready learners in Singapore schools for learning to learn

through God’s grace alone, my team and i received the news today that - as Co-Principal Investigator - i will have the privilege of working with my Principal Investigator - A/P Teo Beng Chong - under the auspices of a grant awarded by the National Institute of Education. titled Maker-centred multidisciplinary learning – preparing future-ready learners in Singapore schools for learning to learn, the quantum of the grant is just over US$107000.

The research questions are:

1) What are the affordances and outcomes of implementing maker-centered multidisciplinary curriculum in secondary school?

2) What are the challenges of implementing maker-centered multidisciplinary curriculum in secondary school?

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