Innovating for Education in a Smart Nation

“Our vision is for Singapore to be a Smart Nation –A nation where people live meaningful and fulfilledlives, enabled seamlessly by technology, offeringexciting opportunities forall.”

Prime Minister Lee HsienLoong

A SMART NATION IS

ANTICIPATES NEEDS

OF OUR PEOPLEIS MORE EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF

SERVICES THROUGH

TECHNOLOGY

EMPOWERS CITIZENS TO

SOLVE PROBLEMS

ONE THAT…

Current Short to Medium Long Term

Download the Report: http://www.mci.gov.sg/infocomm-media-2025

ProgrammeGrooming our Talents from Young

To Play & Maker- Centred Learning

From Screen-based Learning

Changing Paradigm of

Technology for Preschoolers

Technology use for early childhood should promote social interaction and creativity through play

PlayMakerTech-enabled Toys & Resources

Circuit Stickers Bee Bot

KIBO littleBits

Social Robots in Early Childhood Education –

Collaborative Play and Story-telling

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLESTHAT REDUCE MANPOWER, LAND, ENERGY & RESOURCE NEEDS

nuTonomy to Test World's First Fully Autonomous Taxi Service in Singapore This Year

MEDICATION DISPENSINGTHAT REDUCE MANPOWER, LAND, ENERGY & RESOURCE NEEDS

95%LESS WATER

50%LESS LABOUR

5¢ENERGY/KG

900%MORE YIELD

SKYGREENVERTICAL FARMING

Paro

ROSA (Robotic Arm assists surgeon)

Robear (Caregiver robot to lift patients)

Kodomoroid(Child Android) is the world’s first news announcer android

Students can make big academic gains if enrolled in schools that offer personalized ways to learn, especially when teachers have access to effective technology and digital tools that make personalized learning possible. Too often, however, teachers can't get their hands on the best tools, despite the overall increasing presence of technology in classrooms.

(Nov 10, 2015)

Analytics for Student Learning Insights

Abbreviations:

P: Primary

SA: Semester Assessment

Actionable Insights for Precision Intervention:

Correlations of present weak topics with past topics enables more targeted remediation

P3 SA1 Math – Word Problems:Multiplication & Division

P2 SA2 Math – Weight

P2 SA2 Math – Word Problems:Addition & Subtraction

Influencing Factors

P4 SA1 Math – Area & Perimeter

P4 SA1 Math – Division

P4 SA1 Math – Word Problems:Multiplication & Division

Future Impact

P3 SA2 Math – Length

Weak Topic

Holistic QuotientMaking sense of different data types and seeing relationships

can provide differentiated content to engage different

learners

Smart Learning Spaces

200 visits

100 visits

200 visits

Location-based Analytics Enhance exhibit design based on visitors’ patterns

Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think

Big Data and Analytics Increasing Sensor Deployments

Exponential Growth of Mobile Devices

Open Data Initiatives

Big Data spurs innovation and economic growth

Economic value of big geospatial data could reach $700 billion/yr by 2020 - McKinsey

Personal Data: The “New Oil” of the 21st

century & the emergence of a new asset class

- World Economic Forum

Data is the new oil of Internet and the new currency of digital world - EU Consumer

Commissioner

SMART NATION CREATES

INSIGHTS FROM DATA

Nate Silver (US statistician and writer)

Accurate prediction of the 2012 US presidential election results for all 50 states

Jon Stewart from The Daily Show called him “Lord and god of the algorithm”

His abilities to identify right data sources, ask the right questions and apply the right math (have turned Silver into gold)

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Centuryby Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil

Data Slums (Mark Lamont)

- Schools, campuses and education systems (in Australia) have become a ticking bomb as structured and unstructured data accumulates rapidly on local and central servers.

- While industries average about 40% annual data estate growth, a typical school data estate can swell more than 200% each year.

- Up to 55% of the data stored at a typical school was Redundant, Obsolete or Trivial (ROT) - no longer of value.

your analysis is only as good as your data

AVOID “GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT”:

Internet of Things @ SchoolsAuthentic Learning environments for our students

Temperature of classroom

facing park vs petrol station

O2 & CO2 emission

from plants

Different Uses of IoT@Schools

Electricity of different equipment and energy usage in different rooms

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No model answers given, students question and look at evidence to prove their hypothesis

Availability of real-time, real-world data drives engaged learning compared to fixed set of mock-up data

Observations from Pilot

More data collected for trend analysis compared to traditional methods

IDA Lab on Wheels

To seed students' interest and excite them to study technology via experiential and engaging technology featured on the bus.

Good work (learning) needs to be Meaningful, Significant and Fulfilling– a sense of higher purpose

Barry SchwartzProfessor of Psychology at Swarthmore College

“Ironman” delivers a Real Bionic 3D Printed Arm

Innovating with a Purpose

15 Sep 2015

OECD “Students, Computers and Learning: Making The Connection” Report says that even countries which have invested heavily in information and communication technologies (ICT) for education have seen no noticeable improvement in their performances in PISA results for reading, mathematics or science.

Technology to Raise Test Scores or Technology to provide a Better Education

“In places where we have seen large implementation of technology and scores are flat, I see that as great.

Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things that students are doing: learning to use the Internet for research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.

These are things we don’t count if we mindlessly narrow the value of education to a few numbers on report cards.”

Karen CatorPresident and CEO, Digital PromiseFormer Director , Office of Education Technology (U.S. Department of Education)

“We are spending too much time measuring progress and not enough time making progress.”

(WGBH News 29 Oct 2015)

Paul RevilleFrancis Keppel Professor of Practice of Education Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Affective Computing

Tega (by MIT Media Laboratory)A socially assistive robot that can interpret the emotional response of the student it is working so that it can adapt its style and deliver personalized tutoring

NERVANIX premise:An attentive learner is an engaged learner, and an engaged learner achieves success.

Nervanix Clarity lets students, teachers and parents to literally see low points in attention so that they know exactly where key concepts might have been missed. Students are redirected back into their study material based upon where they “zoned out”.

Attention Adaptivity is the process of using an individual’s attention, as measured through EEG brainwave monitoring, to inform the instructional process and empower that process to adapt accordingly.

Bloodletting (from ancient Greece to late 19th century)

• the withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease, based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluids were regarded as "humors" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health.

• Is there an educational equivalent of bloodletting?

TRY NEW APPROACHES“TRY FAST, FAIL FAST. LEARN THE LESSONS AND … PUSH

THE BOUNDARIES”

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