Full Description
This collected book is about the eduLab projects, an initiative with focus on Scaling Change through Apprenticising and Ecological Leadership, designed to surface and spread ground-up information and communication technology-based pedagogical innovations. It presents the goals and rationale behind eduLab, an overview of the research projects conducted by its principal investigators during its funding tenure, as well as synthesizing thoughts on the entire endeavor. This book not only marks the achievements of the eduLab programme but also serves as inspiration for future projects. It presents Singapore education in action - a continually evolving and adapting education system that delivers a system well known for its high quality as much as it is forward-looking.
Contents
1. The Singapore education system and the SCAEL framework of change.- 2. An overview of projects - surveyed by meta study.- 3. Unique proposition of the Singapore system for the diffusion of innovations.- 4. Makerspaces and teacher led maker interventions integrating formal and informal learning.- 5. Virtual reality for spatial intelligence and artistic literacies.- 6. Argumentation in science inquiry.- 7. Smile - encouraging questioning.- 8. Wiread, covva, and group work buddy.- 9. Knowledge building community and the networks formed by schools.- 10. Worlds in the pocket (types of diffusion and the complexities).- 11. Seamless learning.- 12. Lateral networks forged by system brokers.- 13. Leadership from the (system) middle.- 14. Conclusion: Eco-localization.
