EdVantage - FutureSchools@Singapore
FutureSchools@Singapore is developed to serve as peaks of excellence in an ability-driven education paradigm, and to encourage innovation and enterprise in schools. These schools will not only enhance the diversity of educational offerings to cater to learners' needs but provide possible models for the seamless and pervasive integration of infocomm technology that includes interactive digital media. By harnessing infocomm technology in the education sector through innovative pedagogies and flexible learning environments, schools will be able to achieve higher levels of engagement of their students who already have an infocomm-integrated lifestyle. Thus, students will be equipped with the essential skills to be effective workers and citizens in the globalised, digital workplace of the future.
FutureSchools@Singapore
FutureSchools are distinguished by their capacity to leverage infocomm technologies and innovative school designs to enable efficient administrative practices and innovative school-wide educational programmes to bring about engaged learning for students.
The FutureSchools@Singapore will go beyond using infocomm technologies to enhance existing curriculum and pedagogies. Additionally, infocomm-enabled pedagogies will be developed, while curriculum and assessment will be re-designed to fully leverage infocomm technologies to bring about engaged learning for the students.
FutureSchools will equip our students holistically with the essential skills to be effective workers and citizens in the globalised and digital workplace of the future. These schools would be defined by the key enabling components as depicted in the framework.
FutureSchools are supported by infocomm companies and guided by education technology research partners who infuse advanced ICT applications into a holistic learning environment. These industry partners also use Future Schools as experimental test-beds and reference sites for potential export and commercialisation possibilities.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, six schools have been selected as the pioneer batch of FutureSchools@Singapore. They are Beacon Primary School, Canberra Primary School, Crescent Girls' School, Hwa Chong Institution, Jurong Secondary Schooland The School of Science and Technology.
Beacon Primary School
Project name: BEACON WORLD
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Key Focus - Creating Diverse Digital Learning Spaces
Beacon Primary leverages technologies to bring about engaged learning and to create a stimulating learning experience for pupils. Pupils will extend their learning beyond knowledge, skills and values to grow the ability to envision for the future and contribute to make a difference. Highlights include the diverse digital learning spaces and innovative key programmes.
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Canberra Primary School
Project name: CANBERRA LIVE!
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Key Focus -BeyondUsing Play as Pedagogy
Canberra Primary School's proposed six-year Canberra Experience comprises three key programmes - Discoverer, Global Learner and Attuned Learner. Each key programme will be designed to deliver the national curriculum and 21st century skills through collaborative knowledge building-based pedagogies and assessment.
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Crescent Girls' School
Project name: : i-CONNECT@CRESCENT
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Key Focus - Empowering Learners through Student-Centric Learning
While the national 'O' Level curriculum forms the core content, the distinctive features in the curriculum of FS@CGS are the integration of the subject disciplines, use of learner-centric teaching approaches, deployment of multiple assessment modes, and the infusion of of 21st century skills to produce 'world-ready' youths.
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Hwa Chong Institution
Project name: : HWA CHONG NEXUS
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Key Focus - Enabling Self-Directed Learning in a Borderless World
The HCI programme aims to combine technology with new ways of learning to create educational value. This is achieved by creating opportunities beyond the school's physical campus at Bukit Timah, so that learning transcends boundaries between subjects, classrooms, schools, countries and cultures.
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Jurong Secondary School
Project name: : REDEFINING LEARNING THE COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM
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Key Focus - Enhancing Education through Problem-Based Learning
Jurong Secondary School (JSS) aims to leverage the powers of technologies, to engage the community actively to provide our students with authentic learning experiences. Our vision as a FutureSchool is that the world and the community is our classroom.
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School of Science and Technology (SST)
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Key Focus - Creating Pervasive Learning Environments
SST is aiming to leverage 1:1 networked computing and interactive digital media (IDM) tools to create pervasive learning environments that support 21st Century learning, as well as foster students' competencies in critical thinking, collaboration and communication.
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2 New FutureSchools@Singapore
In March 2011, an additional 2 new schools were announced to join the FS@SG Programme. The new FutureSchools will help to support the spread of successful innovations and foster a culture of innovation across schools.
Nan Chiau Primary School (NCPS)
NCPS empowers students to take ownership and drive their own learning experiences, in collaboration with other learners. The school believes in equipping students with 21st Century competencies, problem-solving and communication skills. As a new FutureSchool, NCPS' focus for the FS@SG programme is to redesign its curriculum to harness emergent technologies such as mobile platforms. The school also plans to explore the use of technology to facilitate the learning of the Chinese Language.
Ngee Ann Secondary (NAS)
Guided by Ngee Ann 2.0, the school's ICT framework, NAS' focus for the FS@SG programme is to develop new models for the use of ICT in assessment. The school will use the Teaching for Understanding approach to guide the design and implementation of its curriculum innovations and assessment tools.
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In the second phase of the FutureSchools@Singapore programme, IDA and MOE issued a Call-for-Collaboration (CFC) in March 2012 to invite companies or consortia to architect, develop and deploy state-of-the-art infocomm technologies, integrated with the curriculum to deliver stated student outcomes at the new FutureSchools, Ngee Ann Secondary School (NASS) and the School of Science and Technology (SST). The submission for the CFC was closed in May 2012. The NASS project was awarded to aZaaS Pte Ltd to develop web-based artificial intelligence chat bots, for Science and English Literature subjects and the SST project was awarded to ToKToL Pte Ltd to develop Scaffolded Algorithmic Inquiry-Based Learning (SAILing) system for Science.
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