![]() Her past experiences during 2011-2019 as the President of IPST, within the Institute’s missions, targeted at students, teachers, parents, and education personnel. She had been working with the National Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST) for 40 years involved with SMT education at all school grade levels. The SEAMEO STEM-ED Center aims to develop, maintain and continuously strengthen capacities in STEM education, serving as regional knowledge repository and creator through high quality research in STEM education, both in Thailand and within the SEAMEO region in a way that provides evidence of good practices, experiments and demonstrates pragmatic approaches, and guides effective policy formulation and capacity building of policy makers, professionals and practitioners. Pornpun Waitayangkoon (Ph.D., M.Ed., B.Sc.) is currently the Director Designate of the SEAMEO Center for STEM Education (SEAMEO STEM-ED) which is the newly established Center based in Bangkok, Thailand. His interesting research included STEM education, science, technology, environmental and mathematics education, and Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK).ĭr. Currently, he is director of Postgraduate Research and Programmes, School of Education and director of the Technology, Environmental, Mathematics and Science Education Research Centre, University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has conducted research on the role of internationalisation and globalisations and issues of social justice and ethics in international collaborations.Ĭhris Eames is Associate Professor in Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He has developed special interest in the use of action research as a professional development of teachers. Bill’s main interest in teaching and research is in the overall area of sociocultural aspects of education including the effects of gender and socioeconomic backgrounds of students’ participation and achievement in education. ![]() His works can be found by googling “Johnson Lam KakiDIY”īill Atweh is an educational consultant with over than 30 years of academic positions at the Queensland University of Technology and Curtin University of Technology in Australia and more recently as visiting scholar at the Philippines Normal University and De La Salle University in the Philippines. (Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam)Īlong with educating the community, Johnson also spreads the DIY and Maker movement via other channels such as online, social media, TV and other printed medias. KakiDIY also scouts for talented makers and collaborate them into building solutions for the industry in Malaysia and around neighboring countries. Johnson via KakiDIY also inspired and incubated new Makers into enterprising mindset and eventually building their own company selling their products and services internationally. All these starts from the grass-root of education, up-cycling and recycling old stuff into something artistic and useful. Focuses on DIY education mainly on life-skills and STE(A)M inspiring makers to be solving problems using resources around us. When it comes to the future of schools and learning, Kieran is on it, creating it today.Johnson Lam is a community builder who founded KakiDIY. These efforts led Wooranna Park Primary School to recently become only the third school outside of the United States to be filmed by the George Lucas Foundation. Students have even created an international Minecraft environment to learn about hardware wallets and financial literacy. They have built their own 3D printer computer lab using Raspberry Pi's, created their own cryptocurrency, voted on hardware and software for the school’s open-source STEAM centre, built their own full nodes for various blockchains, and created an educational game that teaches people how to mine Bitcoin. Students have developed everything from virtual reality games and custom-built computers to fully functioning Cisco networks. ![]() Kieran has helped to establish Wooranna Park Primary School as a world leader in education technology and future thinking. Kieran is an Educational Technologist at Wooranna Park Primary School, in Victoria, Australia. ![]()
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