Posts Tagged ‘ict’
Old school is no school for me
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 28, 2012
by crunchcandy Sometimes I get asked to give talks at seminars. I have a standard reply: I try not to give talks because not everyone is ready to listen. Recently, I was asked to give a talk on game-based learning for an ICT seminar at a local institute. As my schedule was packed, I suggested that [...]
It’s sad when…
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 17, 2011
… you read about an e-book service being launched in Singapore and its distinguishing feature is that it also offers assessment papers. Sure, this appeals to the market, but it indicates the sad state of the market. This article and another I am highlighting below were from yesterday’s Digital Life. Click on the images below [...]
Recurring change of course
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 20, 2011
It’s that time of semester for me to resume teaching. First up on my list is the elective MLS118 which starts tomorrow. It’s meant for school ICT heads and is just labelled “Information Technology” in the handbook. I don’t like the sound of IT because communication is missing. IT, like PowerPoint, has a transmissive feel [...]
ICT irony
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 18, 2011
From set 4 of this wonderful gallery of quotations on educational change.
ICTea
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 1, 2011
by Bird Eye This semester I am trying something a bit different. Every academic group in NIE has an e-champion to represent their group at meetings. I have two issues with this practice. One, the e-champions may be appointed and therefore not necessarily willing participants. Two, the meetings in the past have been largely administrative [...]
Do different 2
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 14, 2010
by -sel I doubt that my student teachers notice it, but I take pains to customize the “stock” PowerPoint the ICT tutors get by 1) making them more visual, 2) removing unnecessary text, 3) correcting grammatical errors and 4) making them more consistent within a session and between sessions. It can be time-consuming just to [...]
Tools of our trade
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 20, 2010
This is a rant. Background: Every semester we will get feedback from student teachers that they don’t learn enough technology from our ICT course even though tutors emphasize that the course is about technology-mediated pedagogy instead. Every semester tutors will say they have no time to pack these tools or TELs (technology enabled learning) into [...]
Back in the saddle
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 14, 2010
The teaching semester resumed for me yesterday, after a one-month delay thanks to the YOG. It’s great to be back teaching. Correction, facilitating and modelling. Cajoling and tinkering. Stimulating and pressing. I only have one class to nurture this time round as my administrative responsibilities are heavy. But what a motley crew they are promising [...]
Digital learning strong in schools, really?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 24, 2010
[source, MOE source, click on the above for larger archived copy] Dr Cheah Horn Mun, the director of ETD of the MOE, responded to a contributor to the Straits Time forum who asked, “What’s the update on digital learning?” Horn Mun was a colleague of mine in NIE before taking the post in the MOE. [...]
20% of curriculum to use ICT to support learning?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 8, 2010
Did you read last week’s Channel News Asia report on how Singapore schools plan to devote 20% of curriculum to use ICT to support learning? I did and so did Swee Kin, a former colleague of mine, who now lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand. He twittered his reaction: 30% in 1997, 20% in [...]
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