Teaching & Learning
Teaching & Learning
Smart Nation, Anxious Parents: How to Raise Screen-Ready Children?
Let’s indulge in a thought experiment. An alien lands in Singapore on a mission: to understand the rules of how children and adolescents interact with digital devices. Very quickly, our extraterrestrial visitor might grow perplexed. On the one hand, Singapore has an unmistakable narrative of technological advancement. The country describes itself as a “Smart […]
Managing Minds and Mobiles: Parents, Screen Time, and the Child Who Learns Differently
We have both sat across from parents near tears — not because their child was failing in school, but because their child could not seem…
What Young Minds Need in a Screen-Filled World: A Conversation with a Child Psychologist, Dr Cheung Hoi Shan
From bedtime routines interrupted by YouTube videos to classroom attention diverted by WhatsApp chats among classmates, mobile devices and social media are profoundly influencing childhood.…
Overcoming A Decades-Long Impasse: Driving Rapid, Large-Scale Educational Transformation
86% of the students in an urban school just outside Kuala Lumpur had failed mathematics. I stood stunned as the realisation slowly sank into the…
Future of AI: Six Possibilities for Educators (That Were Once Impossible)
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I…
AI and the Affordable New Educational Institution — An Interview with Prof Sanjay Sarma
PROF SANJAY SARMA Prof Sanjay Sarma is the CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia School of Business (ASB). He is also a professor of…
Age Strong, Age Safely — Expert Advice from a Senior Physiotherapist
PROF CELIA TAN Prof Celia Tan has 39 years of experience in the healthcare sector, is an active clinician, as well as teacher in Physiotherapy…
Embracing the challenge: Navigating the use of AI in education
Imagine a society where every individual is an executive equipped with a team of efficient and responsive personal assistants. With the help of artificial intelligence…
Embracing ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in higher education: The importance of fostering trust and responsible use in teaching and learning
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, is fast disrupting the landscape of education. A growing number of students are adopting…
Re-thinking norms and practices in a changing learning space
On 18 March 2020 Malaysia went into full lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. At that time we were just about to enter the second…
