Posts Tagged ‘news’
Reacting to news digests
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 5, 2012
by Spencer E Holtaway I am privvy to news digests provided by a group in MOE. I really appreciate the work that this group does because they trawl the papers, listen to radio boradcasts, and watch TV to bring summaries on education issue to us. I really like having summaries from papers I do not read [...]
Not cool
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 19, 2011
I got a bit steamed when I read yesterday’s ST article, MOE seeks ways to beat the heat in class. It is looking into ways of cooling schools in our hot and humid clime. Singapore’s mrbrown was not impressed. I’m not either, but for different reasons. The first might be an error in reporting. Or [...]
I dare you
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 28, 2009
You might have read this Channel News Asia (CNA) article about MOE’s latest buzz phrase. I’ve highlighted two parts of the article but I actually have three things to say about it. First, teachers now have a vision statement: “Singapore Teachers: Lead. Care. Inspire”. A former colleague of mine that I follow on Facebook said: [...]
Misinformation
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 12, 2009
No wonder parents and teachers sometimes distrust current forms of ICT! That was my reaction when I read two different accounts of an opera that will be crowdsourced and written via Twitter. Yahoo! News [archive] reported the event in what I thought was a neutral tone. On the other hand, one of the highlights of [...]
A(H1N1) and e-learning?
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 19, 2009
ST Online reported today that schools here might resort to e-learning [PDF] “if H1N1 worsens.” ST also reported that some schools in Hong Kong had already taken that route [PDF] with the outbreak of A(H1N1). The articles are revealing in what they say and what they don’t. In Singapore’s case, “most of the 15 parents interviewed [...]
News perspectives
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 14, 2009
Every day I get a feed about how an organisation is adopting some form of Web 2.0. But it was surprising for me to read about the CIA and the US Army being so open to them. CIA adopting Web 2.0 tools despite resistance Army Orders Bases to Stop Blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr Singapore has [...]
So what’s new?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 19, 2009
The online Straits Times decided to feature something from My Paper (slow news day?) and in the Breaking News section no less. The article? Kids’ errors posted online. A secondary school teacher posted “her students’ poor English usage in their assignments on her Facebook account.” Of course people had a reaction to that. The article [...]
Second Life still alive
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 15, 2009
Second Life in the news. Just because it is not as popular as FaceBook or Twitter does not mean that it is going away.
Twitter news and tools
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 5, 2009
Twitter gets lots of press. News has ranged from how it is being used in the US government to how we learned more about the Mumbai attacks. Recently some people used it to coordinate a rescue after a snowboarding accident: Yahoo! News – Swiss mountain rescue plays out over Twitter. However, the authorities there played [...]
In the news: OLPC
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 22, 2008
AFP reported “Tiny nation of Niue gets laptop for every child“. This is part of the OLPC programme (One Laptop Per Child). Various countries in South America, Thailand, India have already benefitted by addressing a very basic issue: Putting technology in the hands of learners. Would you focus on the possibilities or the problems?
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