voyeurism

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.

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Maker Motes: investigating wind and rain

our team has been working with teachers from schools both locally and regionally in helping craft curriculum for more authentic geography learning and STEM integration.

here's a pic from one of our more recent collaborations - we found it particularly exciting to combine traditional meteorological instruments with the Internet of Things :-)

everything is awesome :-)

with all due acknowledgment to the LEGO multiverse, our students and us had a great time yesterday during class with LEGO Mindstorms :-)

as tutors of AGE08D Designing learning environments with a focus on the Internet of Things, we would like to express our deep gratitude to LEGO Education Singapore for making these enriching sessions possible.

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Maker Motes featured in Vol 8 of OER Knowledge Bites

a year ago, i shared how my team had been invited to conduct a presentation during the Humanities Education Research Seminar, on our work on open-source environmental sensors (Maker Motes).

i am very happy to update that the presentation has been written up in Volume 8 of the Office of Education Research (OER) Knowledge Bites :-)

here's the 326 k download :-)

Maker Motes: sharing with geographers from the Nguyen Tat Thanh University

yesterday, thanks to an invitation from Prof Kim Irvine of the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education, my team and i had the opportunity to interact with a visiting delegation of geographers from a private university in Vietnam, namely the Nguyen Tat Thanh University.

with gratitude to Prof Irvine and Dr Josh Ho, we were able to spend two hours exchanging ideas with the visitors, primarily regarding our work with Maker Motes.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: project featured in the URECA Yearbook 2018

last year, i had the privilege of mentoring two undergraduates from the Nanyang Technological University, under the university's Undergraduate Research Experience in Campus (URECA) programme.

today, we received the humbling news that one of the projects - Exploring the affordances of open-source sensors in promoting authenticity in Mathematics learning, by Joshua Lee - has been selected for inclusion in the URECA Yearbook 2018.

Joshua and i are very grateful for the opportunity, and we acknowledge that it was only through God's Grace that this has come our way.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: workshop during the inaugural NIE Innovations in Teaching and Learning seminar 2019

my team and i were thrilled to receive today an invitation to facilitate a workshop during the inaugural Innovations in Teaching and Learning seminar, organised by the Centre for Innovation in Learning, National Institute of Education.

the seminar is themed on Putting learners at the centre, and will take place on the 7th of March 2019.

our workshop is slated to be part of the Industry 4.0 technologies in education strand.

thanks be to God for so graciously granting us this opportunity to share and learn together.

Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes at Smart Learning & Innovative Design Week 2019

my team and i are deeply humbled and grateful to God to have received an invitation to keynote during the opening ceremony of next month's Smart Learning & Innovative Design Week, which is hosted by the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University.

the event will be held from the 2nd till the 6th of next month, at the Institute's National Engineering Laboratory for Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology (CITLab).

we are really grateful to our hosts for affording us this wonderful opportunity.

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Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: featured in Contact magazine

the present issue of the Ministry of Education's Contact magazine - which bills itself as the teachers' digest - has a feature on our work with teachers from the Mathematics department at Yio Chu Kang Secondary School.

issue #31 - July to September 2018 - has an interview with a student-teacher from the Ministry's Teaching Scholar programme, with whom our team had the distinct privilege of interacting with over the course of a year under the Nanyang Technological University's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme.

our team is very grateful to the Communications Division of the Ministry for so kindly deeming our work worthy of sharing with the wider community of teachers.

Maker Motes and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): appointment as Research Mentor

through God's grace, a collaboration between my team and a small inter-divisional team from the Ministry of Education here in Singapore, will be starting next year.

we just received the wonderful news that our application for funding of approximately US$25000 has been approved, and this means we will be able to work with teachers from two schools on taking our Maker Motes approach to new contexts of learning.

i am very grateful for this partnership, because they are presently all too rare and the diversity of perspectives each party brings can only strengthen the design of the learning intervention.

my team and i are very excited about this collaboration, which is titled an exploratory study on how a GIS-based inquiry empowered with unstructured making can lead to better decision making in students about their school environment.