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Building Teachers' Capacity for Assessment of 21st Century Skills in Mathematics

Productive Failure (PF) is an ongoing research program in Singapore schools that examines the hypothesis that, under certain conditions, letting learners persist, struggle and even fail at complex, novel tasks that are beyond their skills and abilities may in fact be productive for learning (Kapur, 2008). The PF design comprises two phases: a (i) design phase followed by a (ii) consolidation phase. The design phase affords students opportunities to...

IDM Future School Project: Mobile Learning Activities to Foster Critical Thinking Skills and In-situ Knowledge Building in Integrated Humanities

This IDM project aims to examine the affordances of 1:1 mobile technologies that support and enable pervasive knowledge building beyond the four walls of the classroom. The advent and advances of mobile computing and social networking have made possible the continuity of the learning experience and collaboration across different contexts on a seamless learning platform. Research will be conducted on learning activities that use mobile technologies to reinforce learning by bridging the gap...

IDM Future School Project: Towards Pervasive Pedagogical Practices and Learning in the 21st Century (CN-ECT for Language Learning)

This project will enable Singapore educators to achieve first-hand experience with the implementation of knowledge building for language learning in networked classroom mediated by an educational collaboration technology (ECT) – GroupScribbles (GS).

IDM Future School Project: Towards Pervasive Pedagogical Practices and Learning in the 21st Century (CN-ECT for Maths)

There is a need for strong examples of classroom-based initiatives supporting deep disciplinary understanding in maths. Classroom Networks – Educational Collaboration Technology (CN-ECT) for Maths, with its focus on fostering critical thinking and deep conceptual understanding of mathematical topics, supported by highly collaborative technologies, aligns itself with these central concerns.

IDM Future School Project: Towards Pervasive Pedagogical Practices and Learning in the 21st Century--Science (WiMVT)

In order to sustain and scale up our efforts in promoting an iMVT pedagogy for science learning, we are developing and testing a web-based modeling and visualization technology integrated inquiry-based (WiMVT) collaborative science learning environment. We are also co-designing iMVT curriculum materials and enacting the curricula in the school. This is a four-year Singapore National Research Foundation IDM Future school project in collaboration with the Singapore School of Science and...

Implicit Social Cognition as a Predictor of Academic Performance

The performance of school students from East Asia and Singapore on large-scale international math achievement tests is excellent. Countries from this region tend to be among the top 10 highest scoring countries in the world. However, individual differences exist in students’ performance on math achievement tests. Some students in Singapore do not perform as well as others on standardized math achievement tests, and this study will investigate ways of predicting individual variation, with...

Level Up: Enhancing Classroom Pedagogy Through Game-Based Learning

This project seeks to support the diffusion of innovative teaching practice with the Statecraft X mobile game and its associated curriculum in the Singapore education system. To this end, research team members work with teachers to level up their capacity to enact a game-based inquiry learning curriculum based on play, dialog, and performance. The objective is to seed and nurture a small community of teachers able to, first, appropriate the pedagogical innovation into their personal teaching...

Mycloud - A Seamless Chinese Language Learning Environment Leveraging On Ubiquitous Technology And The Construction on Mental Lexicon

MyCLOUD (My Chinese Language ubiquitOUs learning Days, 语飞行云) is a longitudinal intervention study with the aim of developing a holistic and scalable mobile- and cloud computing-assisted Chinese Language (CL) learning environment for P3-P5 students in Singapore.

New Media Literacy of School Students in Singapore

The rapid development of new media affects the way in which people, largely the younger generation, interact, socialize and work. The new media present unprecedented opportunities for far wider participation in the continuing social, economic and cultural development in a global context. At the same time, this global phenomenon also inevitably brings with it many issues such as misinformation, information overload, unwanted surveillance, abuse of the vulnerable etc. The new media age...

Pre-Service Teachers in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment: One-to-One Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Since 2009, all student teachers at National Institute of Education (NIE) have been equipped with a laptop. An understanding of the intended and unintended usage and consequences is necessary to promote the realization of the advantages of a ubiquitous computing program, thus advancing the potential impact of the one-to-one laptop access. This project examines the usage and impact of laptops on teaching and learning to understand the possibilities and challenges of the ubiquitous computing...

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Learning Sciences Lab projects involve close collaborations with teachers in Singapore schools at the primary secondary, and junior college levels. Our research consider a range of theoretical, methodological and practical issues that relate to how Singapore students may learn the challenging knowledge and thinking skills that are necessary in the new century. In this way, we contribute to existing foundational work within the field of the learning sciences, such as advanced learning technologies, classroom and professional development resources, school-based research, design principles for learning environments, and alternative assessment techniques, as well as conduct innovative research in these areas.

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Pre-service teachers in a ubiquitous computing environment project

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Youth Tell: Out-of-school digital storytelling workshop

Youth Tell: In-school digital storytelling workshop

Quest Atlantis Teacher Professional Development Workshop

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