voyeurism

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.

:-)

Disciplinary Intuitions / Six Learnings / Maker Motes / Learner-Generated Augmentation offered as part of NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2020/21

are you an NTU undergraduate eligible for the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme 2020/21?

if so, please do consider applying for either

NIE20017 Exploring the potential roles that game-based worlds and immersive environments play in learning, or

NIE20018 Exploring the development of maker dispositions in learning through open-source hardware and software :-)

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

Geographical Investigation (GI) with the Internet of Things - data collection approval granted

My team and i are very grateful to our administrative colleagues at the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, and, to the Corporate Research Office, Ministry of Education, for so kindly granting us Data Collection Approval for our Geographical Investigation (GI) grant to help teachers design curricula around the Internet of Things (IoT).

Thanks to everyone's help, we received our Institutional Review Board approval from our university within 37 days, and our Data Collection Approval from the Ministry within 25 days.

We are so humbled by the help we have received with respect to this process.

If you are a teacher or school leader reading this, and if you would like to know more about our project, we would be privileged to engage you in conversation :-)

Maker Motes: learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) featured in the annual publication of the National Institute of Education :-)

my team and i are very grateful to A/P Tan Seng Chee, A/P Chang Chew Hung, and Dr Chua Bee Leng, as well as the hard-working team from the Centre for Innovation in Learning (in particular Mr Ray Thong), at the National Institute of Education, for so graciously affording us the opportunity to share our work on learning with the Internet of Things with a wider audience, through the Institute's annual publication, [email protected].

Specifically, the feature documents our General Elective offered through the Nanyang Technological University, namely AGE08D Designing Learning Environments with a Focus on the Internet of Things. we received the invitation to be featured in November 2018, and - given the context of the Covid-19 pandemic - we are particularly grateful to the editorial and publishing teams.

we thank God for this blessing.

:-)

Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors

through God’s grace alone, my team and i received the news today that we have been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Education. titled Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors, the quantum of the grant is just over US$235000.

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

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: paper addressing the threshold learning outcomes for the Australian curriculum in environmental science

a paper which i co-wrote with Dr Atul Sajjanhar and Ren Yuechao of Deakin University, addressing the threshold learning outcomes defined for the Australian curriculum in environmental science, has just been published.

:-)

Pedagogical framework for environmental science is presently available through Springer's Education and Information Technologies.

i thank God for this opportunity to have been able to collaborate with my friend Atul.

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

:-)