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Ming-De Yuen
Ming-De Yuen is a researcher at the National Institute of Education, specializing in the design and development of technology to enhance learning.
He studied Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, and his current research interests include cognition, curriculum design, and game design.
He is expanding his expertise by studying at 42 Singapore (SUTD), a unique, tuition-free coding school known for its innovative peer-learning model. He has been working with a team that develops digital platforms and open-source hardware to create collaborative learning environments.
In addition to his research, he teaches coding on weekends, bringing his passion for technology and education to young learners.
He studied Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, and his current research interests include cognition, curriculum design, and game design.
He is expanding his expertise by studying at 42 Singapore (SUTD), a unique, tuition-free coding school known for its innovative peer-learning model. He has been working with a team that develops digital platforms and open-source hardware to create collaborative learning environments.
In addition to his research, he teaches coding on weekends, bringing his passion for technology and education to young learners.
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As students typically have no access to a mesh of data points, and means to observe concomitant weather phenomena, the cause-and-effect reasoning is usually abstract and far removed from the experience of the daily lives. With their own sensor mesh and a means to visualise the data, we believe students will be better able to ‘talk’ through these data to surface their intuitions, confront them, and develop means to move from nascent forms to more expert forms of knowledge.
Given this context, we are interested in investigating how children in Singapore perceive and understand the factors affecting, and systemic relationships between, their local environments. Through the use of a network of low cost, open-source, unobtrusive environmental sensors placed throughout the school campus, teachers are afforded opportunities to design towards more authentic curricular goals which would permit and encourage the interrogation of real-world microclimatic data from within an environment already familiar to the students.
The workshop will provide participants with skills on how to connect weather sensors to a Micro:bit board and transmit the sensor readings via Bluetooth to a computer. They will then engage in a facilitated discussion on possible STEM lessons on the investigation of local micro-climates using data gathered from Micro:bit. It is expected that participants will have a greater understanding of how to set up Micro:bit boards to gather weather data, as well as how to design STEM lessons to investigate local micro-climates using these data.
Students find learning tasks through this approach authentic and engaging.
Positive social values can be surfaced and dialogued around through this approach.
As students typically have no access to a mesh of data points, and means to observe concomitant weather phenomena, the cause-and-effect reasoning is usually abstract and far removed from the experience of the daily lives. With their own sensor mesh and a means to visualise the data, we believe students will be better able to ‘talk’ through these data to surface their intuitions, confront them, and develop means to move from nascent forms to more expert forms of knowledge.
Given this context, we are interested in investigating how children in Singapore perceive and understand the factors affecting, and systemic relationships between, their local environments. Through the use of a network of low cost, open-source, unobtrusive environmental sensors placed throughout the school campus, teachers are afforded opportunities to design towards more authentic curricular goals which would permit and encourage the interrogation of real-world microclimatic data from within an environment already familiar to the students.
The workshop will provide participants with skills on how to connect weather sensors to a Micro:bit board and transmit the sensor readings via Bluetooth to a computer. They will then engage in a facilitated discussion on possible STEM lessons on the investigation of local micro-climates using data gathered from Micro:bit. It is expected that participants will have a greater understanding of how to set up Micro:bit boards to gather weather data, as well as how to design STEM lessons to investigate local micro-climates using these data.
Students find learning tasks through this approach authentic and engaging.
Positive social values can be surfaced and dialogued around through this approach.