Education: (Chronological order)
Certification of Master Practitioner: Compassionate Systems Master Practitioner (July 2020), Center for Systems Awareness (MIT).
(A year-long certification program conducted by Dr. Peter Senge and Dr. Mette Boell)
Master Degrees:
– Master in Education from Stanford Graduate School of Education (2014-2015)
Program: Learning, Design and Technology
(Received a scholarship from collaborative project between Stanford University and Suksapattana Foundation in Thailand – MIT Alumni Association in Thailand)
– Master in Business and Administration (Executive Program, EMBA 2006)
Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
(Thai Graduate program collaboration among Chulalongkorn University, the Kellogg School of Management, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
(Received a scholarship from KMUTT and Bangkok Bank)
Bachelor of Arts: Journalism and Mass Communication, major of Cinematography and Photography since 1998. Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Experiences:
Affiliate Researcher, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab
since 2024 – present
– OctoStudio educator / collaborator (translate OctoStudio into Thai, hosting the launch of OctoStudio in Bangkok, Thailand (2024))
Asia Pacific Community Coordinator of Compassionate and Systems Awareness in Education
since 2022 – present
Constructionism Learning Ambassador, coordinating and nurturing learning community in Thailand and abroad
since 2014 – present
My journey begins as a progressive educator, Constructionism practitioner and facilitator since 2001 – 2024
2001 – 2024
– Deputy Director of Office of the Director at DSIL
(Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand)
– Co-founder and Managing Director of MITTA Social Enterprise, Co.Ltd.
(Social Enterprise within collaboration between KMUTT, DSIL, MIT Alumni Association in Thailand and Suksapattana Foundation)
History of my early years in education (2001-2010) as a Constructionist facilitator and leader
I am interested in Prof. Seymour Papert’s Constructionism since the beginning of my educational career. I started off as a facilitator, teaching students in the age range from 6 to 15 years old and leading Constructionism project-based learning in classrooms during 2001-2006. I was part of the pioneer group of teachers starting with the school. As a pioneer teacher, I taught and developed learning pedagogy and the model of Constructionism project-based learning at DSIL with other fellow teachers. I became a member of the leadership team of teachers in 2006 and head of academic affairs in 2010.
I was selected as one of the two teachers who joined the school’s first excursion trip to the USA and Canada in 2003. We visited many schools that had implemented self-directed learning and project-based learning in Canada, as well as several schools in Portland, Maine, which practiced expeditionary learning or were influenced by Constructionism. That was also my first visit to the MIT Media Lab in Boston to meet Prof. Seymour Papert and his team. I worked with the school’s provost to develop our first curriculum and other systems with advice and comments from Prof. Papert through video conferences and emails. Unfortunately, in 2006, Prof. Papert’s trip to visit our school was canceled due to his accident in Vietnam just one day before his arrival in Thailand.
During my term of administering the school, I developed several systems and environments in the school that would support a Constructionist learning environment, allowing child-centered project-based learning to grow and flourish (DSIL’s first school’s curriculum and evaluation system, developing a digital database and digital learning management system to track students’ individual learning records to support project-based learning, Student Assessment Systems for PBL, Parents Education Program, Teacher development program, and Staff Evaluation Systems).
Since 2011, my interest of research and professional development started to grow & Scholarship for MA at Stanford University
In 2011, I decided to continue my practice in research and development and create a professional development program for teachers. I am interested in going deeper into several pedagogies and ideologies. During 2013-2014, I was the project manager for establishing the first makerspace in a school in Thailand called “DSIL FabLearn Lab.” I have been involved with maker education since then and became a member of the first cohort of the FabLearn Fellowship Program (2014).
During 2014-2015, my practice was strengthened by my experiences and education from Stanford Graduate School of Education (in the Learning, Design and Technology Department). In late 2015, as I returned to Thailand, I delved deeper into helping teachers learn to design and explore possibilities for classroom interventions, writing articles as a mechanism for learning and development for teachers, and started to connect schools with international learning communities. I created opportunities and facilitated students and teachers in Thailand to present their projects on international stages and develop collaborative projects with professors and schools outside Thailand (FabLearn Program, MIT D-Lab, and Utah State University). This effort helped DSIL to internationalize itself and connect to the community outside the country, opening opportunities for the cross-pollination of ideas, cultures, and learning experiences. Thai students and teachers received opportunities to present their projects in the FabLearn community continuously from 2014 to 2019, and in 2020, DSIL cohosted FabLearn Asia in Thailand with Teachers College, Columbia University.
Establishment of Constructionism Network in Thailand since 2019 – Present
While I shifted my role into “Coaching” the new generation of teachers to create their classrooms, I created a platform for Thai Constructionists to connect and work together closely. I proposed the idea of an annual gathering and organized the “Thailand Constructionism Forum” since 2018. I help facilitate the community and am part of creating a sustainable Constructionism network in Thailand. I was one of the co-founders of MITTA Social Enterprise, Co.Ltd. (2020) (MITTA – MIT Thailand’s Alumni) and became the first managing director of this social enterprise. MITTA aims to provide a long-term profitable platform for scaling up Constructionist learning experiences in Thailand, i.e., a wider group of students in Thailand will be exposed to Constructionism project-based learning. We try to commercialize this experience for the high-income market and also develop courses for corporate (adult learners). Profits from the company will allow MITTA to reach out to underprivileged students and teachers, bringing a creative learning environment to inspire teachers to co-create creative learning for their students in rural areas.
I hope to see this initiative grow as a self-sustaining institution for the development of this community in the long term.
Research papers and articles that I wrote or co-wrote.
Internship Experiences
1. Research Trainee at Stanford Transformative Learning Technology Laboratory (TLTL)
2. Research Assistant (Focusing in conducting qualitative research) at Stanford Transformative Learning Technology Laboratory (TLTL)
3. Research Assistant (Focusing in ethnography and qualitative data processing and coding)
at Stanford Transformative Learning Technology Laboratory (TLTL)
4. Workshop Designer and Coordinator (Teacher Training Workshop Design, Coordination between TLTL and FabLab@School in Thailand)
Graduate School of Education Courses
Qualitative Research Methodology
Introduction to Teaching
Technology for Learners
Curriculum Construction
Beyond Bits and Atoms (Designing Technology Tools)
Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescent
Learning in Formal and Informal Environments (Ethnography Research)
Directed Reading : Learning Mechanics
Final Project
FilmMe (A Study and Developing a Tool for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Literacy Development)
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