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As a LEAD ICT school, Bendemeer Secondary takes pride in enriching our students' learning experience with a focus on harnessing educational technologies for education. The rapid diffusion and pervasive presence of new ICT tools in our daily lives has raised interest in their potential role in education. We take passion in experimenting and advancing the practice of integrating technology with pedagogy. When sparkled with creative elements, learning is fun.
See how we enthuse our students with the use of applications to solve mathematical problems and to engage our learners in learning Mother Tongue languages, such as Chinese and Malay. Also experience how our teachers engage students in learning subjects like Design & Technology, through student-centred activities with Interactive whiteboards.
As part of Singapore's Teach Less Learn More (TLLM) initiative, our TLLM Ignite! Project uses the Probe Method, 3D gaming platform and the learning management system for problem solving tasks in Social Studies lessons. Observe how these technologies promote collaboration in an ePBL (or Problem-based learning) environment.
Visitors can join our students in podcast and digital music composition activities to experience how ICT is integrated into the music curriculum in stimulating students' acumen for creativity.
Please refer to www.bendemeersec.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Canberra Primary, one of the 5 FutureSchools aspires to provide students with a quality holistic education that nurtures students' potential and develops them into responsible citizens. "Teach Less, Learn More" serves as a pedagogical cornerstone in actively engaging our students in the learning process. Learning experiences are critical in achieving this objective. The school has maximised the flexible and versatile designed learning spaces such as mega-classrooms and multi-purpose rooms to enhance learning experiences. In addition, educational technology is one key facet in promoting engaged learning in Canberra Primary School.
The school will demonstrate the ICT-blended approaches it has adopted in its journey. Classroom visits will provide first-hand insights on how technology has been harnessed. Visitors will be able to view the use of wireless technology, Tablet PCs and digital inking technology to enhance co-operative learning strategies as well as facilitate the teaching of process writing; use of data-loggers and Tablet PCs to promote inquiry-based learning in Science; the model adopted to promote 1:1 computing; and use of podcasts to teach language skills and promote assessment for learning.
There will also be opportunities to experience how teachers enhance interactions in classrooms through the use of the interactive whiteboard.
Please refer to www.canberrapri.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Crescent Girls' School (CGS) is a premier girls' school in Singapore with 1350 students, aged 13 to 16 years old, and a staff strength of 80. Its shared vision is to be a premier school with a nurturing and innovative environment that prepares its students to be ladies and leaders of tomorrow.
With the launch of 1 to 1 mobile learning since 2004 and the use of the Tablet PC, learning has indeed become more dynamic and interesting. Our students use a wide range of Interactive and Digital Media content to enrich their learning experiences. Truly, they have moved beyond the "tried and tested" to discover new frontiers in learning.
Equipped with state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure, the entire campus is wirelessly networked to facilitate seamless delivery of indoor and outdoor lessons. Many interesting learning spaces have been set up to engage the students and enable them to make connections between the concepts which they have learnt and the real world.
During the school visit, a sharing on the insights of our ICT journey will be conducted. A school tour will be included to see students engaged in learning through technology in different subjects. Visitors will be able to understand the philosophy in the designs of the different learning spaces to support engaged learning.
Crescent's success in harnessing ICT to enrich our students' learning has received strong affirmation from the Ministry of Education, leading to its appointment as the Centre of Excellence for ICT in the South 2 Cluster. In May 2007, Crescent was conferred as one of the first FutureSchools in Singapore to lead the way in harnessing technology to bring about engaged learning for students. In addition, we are proud to be chosen by Microsoft as a Mentor School to the innovative schools in 12 countries, sharing the honour with Philadelphia and Taiwan School-of-the-future.
Please refer to www.crescent.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Geylang Methodist School (Primary) is committed to enabling learning in and out of the classroom. We see ICT as an effective and integral part of the curriculum in helping us achieve this aim.
Collaboration is key to our students' learning in Geylang Methodist. Students use the tracking tool in the word processor to give constructive feedback, based on a set of rubrics, to their peers on their written work. The peer review function in the instant messaging also aids teachers and students in the collaboration process. Both teachers and students agree that such features are effective in facilitating the feedback process. Chinese resources will be available for the students through webs or blogs
Technology is also used to scaffold students' learning. For example, in order to teach students the concept of friction, simulation tools are used find out how objects with increasing mass behave when launched across different surfaces with increasing force. Students will also learn to identify the factors that can increase or reduce friction between surfaces.
The mobile PC (UMPC) and dataloggers are also used as part of the inquiry process. For example, different groups of students measure, record and analyse the brightness in different areas in the school to learn about the relationship between variables
Visitors to the school can be able to glean ideas from an overview of the school's ICT programme, view a display of students' and teachers' ICT-based work, observe lessons and interact with teachers.
Please refer to www.gmsponline.net for more information about our school.
Hougang Primary School is prototyping Mixed Reality (MXR) technology and integrating it into the Science Curriculum. See how such technology promotes constructivism through tangible interaction with virtual information. For example, through the use of a "Head Mounted Display", adding virtual water to seeds provides a visual scaffolding of difficult and abstract concepts such as seed germination. The prototype creates an experiential learning platform for students to interact intuitively and seamlessly for the inquiry of science concepts.
In addition, visitors will be able to glean ideas on the use of technologies such as blogs and podcasts for learning. For example, iBLOG@HGP shows how blogs can be incorporated as a medium for sharing among the students with the explicit teaching of good diary writing strategies, and to enable students to better understand the importance and relevance of mastering written communication.
Another example is the Podcasting@Hougang project where students work with devices such as iPods and Macbooks to create and access podcasts created by the teachers and their peers. Visitors will be able to go through how iPods can be used for a Science lesson on Herbs and Spices to draw out the creativity in the students. There will be opportunities for visitors to experience how iPods facilitate information gathering and make connections to the world beyond the classroom, as well as the processes (such as planning and editing) involved in the creation of a podcast.
Please refer to www.hougangpri.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
With the vision to create a 'passion-driven borderless learning institution', the visit to Hwa Chong Institution will showcase the school's two-prong approach to its Future School initiative; that of establishing a Global Academy and providing Diverse Learning Environments for students to engage in independent learning to create and develop knowledge in self-directed teacher-mentored learning communities.
Presentation on the former includes:-
. experiences at the recently established Beijing Satellite Campus and their intent to setting up of similar facilities in India and US;
. both the offline and online real-time learning with the Stanford University Enhanced Programme for Gift Youth (EPGY); and
. the unique collaboration programme with the Virginia (Louden County) Academy of Science
In creating cross-border learning experiences, the school has blended the use of technology to complement the physical learning experiences for their students.
The initial efforts by the school in creating and developing the Diverse Learning Environments will also prompt a discussion session on the infusion of mobile phones as a tool in their curriculum, particularly the use of SMS for pre & post lecture assessment.
A short tour of the school's new Science Research Centre will include a visit to the Virtual Reality Lab where students will share some of their experiences in learning in this environment. The visit to their Art Centre will showcase how technology provides students with new avenues for their artistic expressions in particular, in the area of animation and digital videography.
Please refer to www.hwachong.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Jurong Secondary School (JSS) is an established co-ed school in the west of the island. As one of the 5 FutureSchools@Singapore, JSS holds the vision that "The World and the Community is Our Classroom". Harnessing technologies and actively engaging the community, we offer our students authentic and meaningful learning experiences. We aim to equip our students with 21st Century skills including inventive thinking skills, effective communication skills, and digital age literacy.
JSS has developed a unique brand of "Problem-Based Learning" methodology which is now known as PBL-AL (PBL-Authentic Learning). In PBL, students are challenged to work collaboratively in groups to seek solutions to real-life problems. ICT tools are used to facilitate anytime-anywhere learning. With teachers as mentors and learning facilitators, students develop critical and creative thinking skills, independent learning and teamwork.
Some examples of our experience in PBL-AL include:
(i) A Lower Secondary Science Curriculum that integrates all the three disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics in the investigation of the natural and physical environment at the Jurong Lake Park
(ii) An Upper Secondary Geography module in which students apply GPS and GIS technologies for a river study field-trip
(iii) A Lower Secondary Mathematics module in which students solve authentic problems collaboratively with the use of Tablet PCs in our unique PBL Studio.
Presently, JSS is developing a media literacy curriculum which teaches not only the skills of producing media messages, but also the ethics and moral issues of interpreting and producing such messages. Applying what they learn in the media literacy curriculum, students contribute to the community through the media products they create. In addition, we have a unique Digital Video Drama (DVD) programme in which language learning is enhanced in our state of the art multimedia production studio - the Pulse Studio.
Please refer to http://schools.moe.edu.sg/jurongsec for more information about our school.
Maris Stella High School was established as an all boys full school in 1958. The secondary section has a student population of about 1500 13 to 16 year old boys and a staff strength of 96. The primary section has about 2000 7 to 12 year old boys and 90 teachers.
Our ICT Vision is to use ICT to provide a challenging learning environment to equip our Marists with life skills to contribute and to thrive in the future digital economy
We started using Apple Technology extensively for teaching and learning in 2001.
Students produce audio and video podcasts, video clips and compelling presentations using various Mac applications in our Mac labs and Media Studio. Web resources, forum discussions, animation, applets and mind mapping tools also form part of the strategies we use to engage our students in the classroom. Currently, secondary 1 students and teachers are exploring 1-1 learning technologies in their classrooms.
Our success in integrating technology pervasively has resulted in our appointment as the Cluster Centre of Excellence for ICT in 2002 and eventually as the Zonal Centre of Excellence for ICT for the North Zone in 2005. The first ever ICT symposium for the North zone was organised in September 2005. This annual event has evolved from a face to face one to one to an online one.
Let us share with you how we have evolved a work culture which supports the use of ICT to teach and grow as a Marist family. Come and interact with the technology trail blazers, who incidentally, are our very own teachers and students.
Please refer to www.marisstellahigh.moe.edu.sg for more information about the school.
Nan Chiau Primary School is a relatively young government-aided school which has achieved some success in integrating ICT into its curriculum and instructional practices. The school's ICT programme is characterized by its 1:1 learning platform and how virtual learning spaces are leveraged for peer sharing and collaborations.
In addition to a short presentation on the school's philosophy on ICT and its direction for the use of ICT in teaching and learning, the school will share its unique experience with 1:1 learning - how the project started has evolved from one with 40 Primary 2 (8 year-olds) students into one that augments the learning of at least 1600 students (Primary 3 to 6) each year.
Thereafter, visitors will be invited to join our students in the classrooms to experience how Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) and wireless technologies are leveraged in the classrooms for teaching and learning.
The school's ICT-enabled mobile learning trails will also be showcased in a mini exhibition. During the exhibition, students will share recounts of how technology has enriched their learning experience along the Singapore River and Chinatown.
Please refer to www.ncps.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Nan Hua High School is an Autonomous Special Assisted Plan (SAP) secondary school in promoting bilingualism and grooming Chinese Cultural elite.
It is one of the 66 schools selected for the LEAD ICT@Schools programme where the main objective was to encourage schools to explore innovative or effective use of ICT-based pedagogies for subjects across the curriculum. The school has 2 practice-based projects under this programme, namely, Games Development for Humanities Education and Borderless Learning Forum for Chinese Language.
The school has various approaches in integrating ICT for different subjects at different levels. For example, secondary 2 students undergo a Video Journalism programme; the Humanities department uses Webcast and blogs for teaching, learning and communication; the Maths department conducts assessment via Ace-Learning eLearning portal .In addition, all lower secondary students have ICT lessons aimed at developing and equipping them with the necessary ICT skills and knowledge.
In 2004, the school started to look into providing students an alternative learning experience through the use of Tablet PC. Students in this 4-year programme purchased their own Tablet PCs to experience learning of subjects like English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Aesthetics through the use of these portable computing devices
Visitors to Nan Hua High can expect to engage in conversation with the school management about the school's underlying philosophy, vision, and their experience in the journey of innovative practices in implementing ICT in their curriculum. There will also be opportunities to interact with the students and teachers as visitors view lessons during the visit.
Please refer to www.nanhuahigh.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Ngee Ann Secondary School is a Zonal Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with the vision to become a technology gateway for innovative teaching and learning. It has put in place a comprehensive framework with innovative initiatives and ICT programmes for education.
Visitors will have the opportunity to see how the school adopts online technology via Project V@LITE to promote Social Emotional Learning in students. Visitors will also observe how teachers harness online gaming technology and digital animation to promote National Education. Visitors will get a chance to experience how the school engages students in lessons (e.g. in Science) via a Socratic animated agent, designed using Windows Live Agent - a state-of-the-art technology chat interface with artificial intelligence capabilities.
Ngee Ann is presently in the Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing schools. This provides the school with the opportunity to design and employ highly innovative architectural designs to enhance learning experiences. The school will share with visitors how such designs support its innovative teaching and learning programme.
Please refer to http://www.ngeeannsec.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
Tao Nan School is a government aided primary school. It was founded in 1906 and was named a Special Assistance Plan School with special emphasis on the learning of the Chinese Language and Asian core values in 1990. It was identified as a Gifted Education Programme Centre 1996.
The use of a variety of ICT tools and wireless technology in the school is primarily for engaged and self-directed learning
Visitors can expect to observe and interact with our teachers and students. There will be opportunities to examine the use of the ePortfolio for the purpose of scaffolding of knowledge as it allows teacher ,peer and individual reflections. One example is the use of web cam of the Ultra-Mobile PC and software (?) to prepare and record news reports and news casting. Other uses include the Instant Feedback System, Interactive White Board and the Tablet PCs to help students better understand various concepts; and dataloggers and PDAs to aid the collection and analysis of data.
Please refer to www.taonan.moe.edu.sg for more information about our school.
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