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sharing our thoughts on the digital humanities and the potential of Generative AI in nurturing environmental stewardship

one of the most happening communities within the geography fraternity is the Digital Geographies research group of the Royal Geographical Society. 

this year, their annual symposium will be held from the 19th to the 20th of June, themed on Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital. By global digital geographies, the conveyors aim to foreground two interconnected dimensions of the global. First, we engage with geography’s long-standing critique of the binary conception of territory and network in the context of globalization—a debate that has gained renewed urgency and complexity with the advent of digitalisation and information technology. Second, we envision this as a global platform for scholarly exchange, bringing together diverse perspectives and insights on these topics from different regions around the world.

given this, we are so thrilled and thankful to God to be afforded the opportunity to share two studies undertaken by our team; the first being on the analysis of political records through the digital humanities, and the second on the potential of Generative AI in nurturing environmental stewardship.

we give thanks to God for these blessings.

sharing our work at Digital Education for Digital Transformation

The team is excited to have been invited to attend ‘Digital Education for Digital Transformation’ in Seoul next month :-)

The forum is organised by World Learning and Digital Network Communication Network Global, with funding from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the State Department of the United States.

students' work on AI and plant growth at this year's EdMedia conference

i am very happy to share that my students have the opportunity to share their work on Designing an AI and automated system for analysing plant growth to predict and speed-up harvest the EdMedia conference to be held in Barcelona from the 19th to the 23rd of May this year.

we thank God for this opportunity.

hosting visitors from Indonesia around conversations on Data Science and AI

we were very grateful to be afforded the opportunity to play host to a visiting delegation from Indonesia, and engage in conversations around the intersection of Data Science, AI and learning. 

the delegation represents the Muhammadiyah Group in Indonesia, which is the second largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, with members estimated to be around 60 million. the group operates more than three thousand schools and more than 170 institutes of higher learning. In Indonesia, the present Minister of Primary and Secondary Education - Prof. Abdul Mu'ti - is also the Secretary-General of Muhammadiyah for the 2015-2027 term. Present in today's delegation were the Head of Education for the group in East Java province and Yogyakarta Special Region, which are both amongst the regions running the largest number of Muhammadiyah schools.

students' work on sleep quality and microclimate at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications

i am very happy to share that my students have the opportunity to share their work on Exploring The Relationship Between Sleep Quality And Micro-climate With The Internet Of Things at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications to be held in Antalya from the 7th to the 9th of August this year.

the abstract of their work reads:

This study investigates the impact of environmental factors—light, dust level, sound, temperature, and humidity—on sleep stages (awake, InBed, core, deep, and REM). The research aims to explore correlations, differences, and the predictive significance of these factors on sleep stages. Data were collected using an Apple Watch for sleep tracking and Seeed sensors for environmental measurements across two distinct settings: a dormitory in Singapore and a home in Vietnam. Statistical methods, including Spearman’s and Pearson’s correlation, the Kruskal-Wallis H Test, and post-hoc analyses, were employed to analyze relationships between variables. The findings reveal weak correlations between environmental factors and sleep stages, suggesting that while these factors influence sleep patterns, their effects are limited. Differences in environmental conditions across sleep stages were noted, but their magnitude remained minimal. Predictive accuracy for sleep stages using environmental factors was modest, indicating the potential need for nonlinear modeling techniques such as neural networks.

we thank God for these opportunities.

reading papers at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society

the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society has been a highlight of my academic calendar for many years, and this year is no different.

i am happy to share that i will be attending the conference, during which i will be reading a paper on behalf of my students, as well as being able to share updates on our work on the affordances for learning of generative artificial intelligence (as it pertains to geography and geography education).

i hope to see you in Birmingham in the summer!

papers on Machine Learning, Large Language Models and the Science of Learning to be read at AI4X 2025

our team is very happy and grateful to have the opportunity to share two projects in July during the inaugural AI4X conference.

AI4X 2025 is jointly organised by the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials at the National University of Singapore, together with the National Research Foundation of Singapore and the DSO National Laboratories.

we will share on Exploratory investigation of electrodermal activity in learning from a large language model versus from curated texts, and on Evaluating the effectiveness of Machine Learning algorithms in stock price prediction across different time frames.

we thank God for this opportunity.

sharing our experiences with Embodied Learning through the wiki of the Singapore Teaching Practice

if you have access to the wiki of the Singapore Teaching Practice, do look out for a chapter on Embodied Learning which our team was invited to contribute a year ago :-)

we thank God for the opportunity to share our experiences with the fraternity, and are grateful to the Office of Teacher Education & Undergraduate Programmes, National Institute of Education, for their kind support and facilitation :-)

the Life2Well Project: sharing with Chief AI Scientist, A*STAR and his delegation from CCDS, NTU

we were thrilled today to have the opportunity to introduce our work on Learning at the intersection of AI, physiology, EEG, our environment and well-being (the Life2Well Project) with the President's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Chief AI Scientist, A*STAR and his delegation from the College of Computing and Data Science, NTU.

we remain deeply grateful for the courtesy extended to us, and thank God for the opportunity.

the 1st International Conference on Learning Sciences and Educational Innovation (ICoLSEI) 2025, Seoul

Seoul National University and Dankook University are co-organising the 1st International Conference on Learning Sciences and Educational Innovation in June this year.

i am happy and grateful to be afforded the opportunity to share the work of my team members this summer in Seoul :-)