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Tan, Charlene; Ng, Connie S. L. – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2021
Focusing on the cultivation of twenty-first century competencies in a high-performing education system, this article examines the teaching and learning of creativity in Singapore. It is argued that "everyday creativity" and creativity as innovation are privileged by educators in Singapore. Creativity is promoted through a harmonized…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, 21st Century Skills
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Tan, Michael; Lee, Shu-Shing; Ng, Zhi Ying – Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
While the Silicon Valley aphorism would encourage all involved in design to 'fail early so that one can succeed earlier', such a concept may be hard to translate to classroom instructional strategies, especially due to the negative connotations of failure in school settings. Failures in design serve a somewhat distinct purpose from failures in…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Student Attitudes, Failure, Design
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Anderson, Kate T.; Stewart, Olivia G.; Kachorsky, Dani – Written Communication, 2017
This article examines multimodal texts created by a cohort of academically marginalized secondary school students in Singapore as part of a language arts unit on persuasive composition. Using an interpretivist qualitative approach, we examine students' multimodal designs to highlight opportunities taken up for expanding literacy practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Arts
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Boticki, I.; Wong, Lung Hsiang; Looi, Chee-Kit – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2013
This paper describes the design of a technology platform for supporting content-independent collaborative mobile learning in the classroom. The technical architecture provides mechanisms for assigning different content or materials to students and then guiding them to form groups with other students in which the combination and integration of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers