Fluke in a Thai TV program, sharing about his project and first draft of “SpaceBox” project. His “SpaceBox” from 1 km above the ground and Fluke was sending off the helium balloon with his team. I recently discussed with one of my student, Thunpisith Amnuaykiatloet (Nickname Fluke). Fluke won the third prize in cube sattlelite… Read more »

Finally, this is the last part. 🙂 Teachers from thirteen schools in rural area of Thailand attended a basic fabrication workshop for the first time in 2012. (Workshop provided by team from DSIL FabLab@School, Bangkok.) Conclusion This paper has discussed the perspective of how people’s interaction in the FabLab learning environment clearly shows that we… Read more »

Well balance of affection and learning. Lave and Wenger (1991) state that the importance of the “relationship of masters to apprentices” is more important than the content of teaching itself. Sometimes the teacher can go too far in terms of building a positive relationship and trying to be likable to all the students. Cavallo suggests… Read more »

Teacher as facilitator in FabLab. A teacher in a FabLab has different roles and actions compared to a conventional classroom. The active classroom amplifies a lot of the social interactions in class which teachers need to pay attention to in order to provide appropriate support for students according to their needs. Freedom that allows autonomy… Read more »

Part 2: People and Relationship as Learning Assets in FabLab (Thank you again to Ms. Angi Chau and Ms.Heather Pang for having me to visit and observe your wonderful work at Bourn Idea Lab at Castilleja School.) Looking closely, the physical objects and setting of both the BI Lab or the soap carving classroom is just… Read more »

I have been observing and stydying about “FabLab” idea by tracing back to its original ideas, practices and theories behind this new leanring interactions. I observed the FabLabs, Maker’s Labs and some independent labs in the past few years and had done some interviews with teachers, lab manager, lab director who run the labs.  I… Read more »

(This blog post was written in Feb 2015. Thanks to Sylvia Martinez for editing this blog post.) Last week, I got a chance to visit the Bourn Idea Lab, a FabLab@School at Castilleja School in Palo Alto. I spent one and a half hours observing interactions in a maker class for my study about learning environment… Read more »