"Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of a fire".
- William Butler Years
21st Century Citizen (21st CC) Technology is constantly changing the educational landscape, transforming how teaching and learning are done. With the focus on 21st Century Skills rather than rote learning is a major educational goal for the world as to prepare the students for jobs that have yet to appear. It is also essential to engage the students in life skills as these skills will allow them to be creative, self-motivated and collaborative.
Support for Learning and Digital Media Our ICT vision is to support students in their learning through ICT to allow better engagement and effective learning to take place. This vision is aligned to the 21st CC and the Master Plan 4 as laid out by the Ministry of Education. For the past few years, students are trained in the area of digital media, focusing on the use of photography, videography and Web 2.0 tools during ICT lessons. Some of the works produced are stop motion videos, poster, photo exhibition, creation of Electronic portfolios. Students also get to use a variety of Web 2.0 tools like Google apps to research and create their presentations with their friends.
The initiatives enable students to be engaged in the use of ICT to promote Self-Directed and Collaborative Learning. Students can also exhibit better learning engagement and show great creative talent when ICT is used in a relevant and authentic teaching and learning environment.
Personalised Digital Learning Programme (PDLP) To enable our students to have easy access to ICT for teaching and learning purposes, the PDLP that the school is going to implement starting in term 2 of 2021 will require every Sec 1 to 3 student to bring his/her personal learning device (iPad 10.2 - 8th generation) to school everyday for his/her lessons.
Students are expected to use their personal learning devices to access and work on content from online websites such as MOE Student Learning Space (SLS), Google Classroom, Google Docs, YouTube and other educational websites.
These lessons aim to provide a variety of learning experiences for students such as promoting Engaged learning, Assessment for learning and Self-directed learning.
For the new Sec 1 students, they would be taught how to connect their personal learning devices to the school’s wireless network during one of the weekly IT lessons in 2021.