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Team-based learning in Mathematics at the conference for the international group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 2019

last July, i shared about the constitution of a new team around a grant to study Team-based learning in Mathematics in a few secondary schools in Singapore. through God's grace alone, the team's work has been accepted as a paper... Continue reading

Posted Apr 14, 2019 at voyeurism

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video of talk on Learner-Generated Augmentation at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference 2019

my gratitude to the organisers of this year's Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference, especially Lorraine and James, for facilitating the session and its recording :-) here is the video of my talk from last week :-) Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2019 at voyeurism

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Disciplinary Intuitions / Maker Motes: report on 2016 / 2017 intervention is published

From 2016 to 2018, under two separate tranches of funding, my team and i had the privilege of working alongside Dr Ari Widodo of the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, in taking our Maker Motes approach with open-source environmental sensors in to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2019 at voyeurism

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AGE08D Designing learning environments with the Internet of Things marks IoTDay 2019

April 9th is Global Internet of Things (IoT) day. this year, our team chose to commemorate the occasion with our closing lesson of this semester's undergraduate elective AGE08D Designing learning environments with the Internet of Things. AGE08D is an elective... Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2019 at voyeurism

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heartfelt gratitude to my audience and session organisers at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference 2019

i had my presentation at this year's Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference yesterday. i would like to thank the team from VWBPE 2019, specifically Lorraine and James, for facilitating the session behind the scenes. i would also... Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2019 at voyeurism

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Introducing Accelerobot: surfacing novice intuition in mathematics with portable, programmable robots

in 2017 i shared news of a grant that my team and i were awarded, to develop portable, programmable robots for use in mathematics curriculum, specifically to help teachers address what have been termed Problems with Real-World Contexts. unlike the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2019 at voyeurism

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what's caught my eye at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2019

the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is always a highlight of the calendar, and this year is no exception. here’s what’s caught my eye in this year’s programme :-) Integrating block-based coding in to scientific modelling... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes: inaugural geography class in Singapore - data on ArcGIS

this past month, i have been sharing about how our team's Maker Motes approach has been appropriated by geography teachers in schools in Singapore. my earlier posts were about how the teachers facilitated coding the Maker Motes, and how the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2019 at voyeurism

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Chart-a-Path: surfacing learner intuition about electrical flow in analog circuits - published in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

our team is very, very excited and grateful to God that - after a wait of three years' - our work on the learning environment we developed to surface learner intuition about electrical flow in analog circuits (which we have... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2019 at voyeurism

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Discover URECA@NTU 2019 poster exhibition held today :-)

further to my post last week about the poster exhibition of the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme of the Nanyang Technological University, here’s a pic of our booth, taken earlier this afternoon :-) Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes: inaugural geography class in Singapore - students siting

last week, i shared about the very first geography learning unit in a regular Singapore school is taking place. in that post, i described how the geography teachers took responsibility for the facilitation of the lesson in which the students... Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes: sharing with landscape architecture students from Thammasat University

we are very grateful to Prof Kim Irvine of the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education (NIE) for his invitation to interact with a visiting delegation of undergraduates from the faculty of Architecture... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2019 at voyeurism

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Learner-Generated Augmentation at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference 2019

i am very happy to share that i will be able to facilitate a roundtable during this year's Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference. the roundtable has been scheduled for 7 pm Eastern time on the 5th of April... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2019 at voyeurism

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Discover URECA@NTU poster exhibition 2019

the Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme is an initiative by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). a little over five months’ ago, i shared on how my team and i were privileged to collaborate with two undergraduates in this... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes: inaugural geography class conducted by teachers in a school in Singapore!

we've been working towards this for more than five years, and today our dream of a geography lesson designed and conducted by teachers themselves, in an authentic secondary school setting in Singapore finally came to fruition. the lesson was conducted... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes: our first Arduino workshop for geography teachers

through our Maker Motes approach, our team has been helping schools with open-source hardware for nearly four years. we have been very privileged to have been able to do so. through our recent partnership with a small inter-divisional team from... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2019 at voyeurism

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Maker Motes in pre-service geography teacher education course on catchment conservation and management

following on from my post ten months' ago, in which i shared about a collaboration with my friends from the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education, my team and i were very privileged... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2019 at voyeurism

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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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2019 at voyeurism

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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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2019 at voyeurism

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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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2019 at voyeurism

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The Internet of Things (IoT) at the National Institute of Education: reported in the publication NIEWS December 2018

back in July, i shared how our team hosted a visiting delegation of teachers and faculty from the National Tsinghua University. the current issue of the National Institute of Education (NIE) publication NIEWS (December 2018 - February 2019) mentions the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2019 at voyeurism

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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research - Special Issue on ‘Pedagogy - taking stock and looking forward’ is published

Six months’ ago, i shared a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, themed on ‘Pedagogy - taking stock and looking forward’. It was a tremendous privilege to be the Guest Editor for... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2019 at voyeurism

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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... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2019 at voyeurism

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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... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2019 at voyeurism

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Learner-Generated Augmentation: seminar hosted by Beijing Normal University

two days' ago, i introduced a pedagogical design strategy which my team has termed Learner-Generated Augmentation. the paper supporting the strategy has just been published in a special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, themed on a decade's... Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2018 at voyeurism

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