voyeurism

first enaction of the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project in the primary school curriculum

ten years' ago to the day, Japan was rocked by the Tohoku earthquake, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster. 

at that time, my team and i were collaborating with a local primary school here in Singapore, and the teachers designed a series of activities to help children make sense of what had happened, within the context of the Social Studies curriculum.

it represented one of the earliest examples of enactments inspired by our Six Learnings curriculum design framework, and we remain very grateful to those teachers.

i am very excited to share that today marked the return of the Six Learnings to the primary school Social Studies curriculum, this time under the auspices of the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project.

catalysed by the COVID-19 pandemic, our team has been singularly privileged to walk this journey with teachers and students from Xishan Primary School.

we have learned so much from the teachers and have also learned to see the world through the eyes of the students.

Stewards Pooi Kei Primary School - Singapore STEM study tour

something i treasure about my job is that it allows me to meet and interact with learners and educators from different cultural backgrounds.

over these couple of days, my team and i are helping students, their parents, and teachers from Stewards Pooi Kei Primary School of Hong Kong, on their Singapore STEM study tour.

it’s just amazing to think of the opportunities these young minds have had, and the wonders they will go on to create.

:-)

my talk at FabLearn 2013 on an emergent school-based makerspace

many thanks to my fellow panelists Christa Flores, Heather Allen Pang, Lucia Arias and Susanna Tesconi, and to Jaymes Dec, our most excellent facilitator :-)

visiting St Stephen's Girls' College and St Paul's College in Hong Kong

much gratitude to Christine Shain - Principal of St Stephen's Girls' College - and John Kennard - Principal of St Paul's College - for your gracious hospitality to Geoff and Jacky Newton and myself, during our visit to Hong Kong :-)

the visit also coincides with Sheila Elias's talk at the Apple Store on sketching with the iPad, and with the Asia Contemporary Art Show and the Annual Awards of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects :-)

the Six Learnings at SPRING Singapore's Education Innovation conference 2012 - the videos

as a follow-up to last month's post on SPRING Singapore's Education Innovation conference, here are the videos from the session that i conducted jointly with teachers and students from Ang Mo Kio Secondary School, on the Six Learnings curricular design framework and its associated orientation of Disciplinary Intuitions.

Six Learnings AMK Sec 3.1 Collaborative Observation Lesson 1 (the River as a System)

Collaborative Observation Lesson 1 (the River as a System) using Second Life, at Ang Mo Kio Secondary 3.1, co-taught with the teacher Mrs Habibah Ismail.

This is an example of how Second Life may be used in a regular classroom environment within the space of an 80-minute lesson.

(region landscaping by Jeanne Schimmer)

Minecraft and map literacy

Teacher: "what can we find on a map?"

Students: "coordinates"

T: "very good, what are coordinates?"

S: "x, y, z"

T: "did you learn that in primary school?"

S: "No! we learnt it in Minecraft!"

keynote of Bedok Green Secondary School's Teaching & Learning Symposium 2011

as a follow-up to my earlier post, the video is now ready :-)

once again, a sincere "thank you" to the Mdm Tay, Mr Lim and Mrs Loong, and the staff of Bedok Green Secondary School, for their warm hospitality and kind invitation :-)

SLCC 2011 my presentation on learning geography through Second Life (recording)

the one-hundred-and-ninety-first episode of ventriloquy is a recording of my talk yesterday entitled Developing adolescents' map literacy with Second Life during the annual Second Life Community Convention (SLCC 2011).

please do join me as i share my ideas in this 24.4 MB download.

(the Ustream video is here, sincere apologies in advance that brain wasn't firing on all cylinders)

the Six Learnings in action at the EduTech seminar 2010

14- and 15-year-old students from Ang Mo Kio Secondary School in Singapore, learning by expressing their in-world performance to an atomic audience, during the recent EduTech seminar 2010 organised by the Educational Technology Division of the Ministry of Education.