Spectrum - A Whole New Way of Learning in Bite-Size

Crescent Girls' School developed this portal, called Spectrum, that allows teachers to create engaging learning experiences which are packaged into small learning activities. Each learning activity allows students to access either a resource from the Internet, or a Google Doc link or even an image.

In one of the activities I created for my Secondary Two girls, I decided to use the theory of place-based learning which required the girls to go to several locations within the school, be immersed in that place and to describe the setting based on a given scenario. I could then evaluate students' responses via the platform and marked them.

If you are interested to learn more about Spectrum, email me at richard_koh@crescent.edu.sg :)

Microsoft Innovative Expert Educators Program 2015

It is a great honour to be on this journey again! I look forward to learning from all the expert educators! I enjoy using technology in education and always think about what ticks for my students. For example, while I am conducting my lessons, if students were to ask me what a stick insect looked like, because we might be going through a passage that mentioned it, I would quickly use the Internet to show them what the insect looks like in the real world. This adds immediacy and authenticity to the things students learn in class. Some of the tools I use frequently in class include O365 - OneDrive and OneNote, which I used to create a page for students to view all that they have done and learnt with me, SharePoint for its wonderful collaborative nature e.g. Word Online, Web 2.0 tools like Padlet, Linoit and Mindmeister. The variety of tools used allows me to give students the opportunity to develop different literacies - visual and media and most importantly, for the development of 21st century skills.

21st Century Skills Acquisition - Webinar at Stockholm

On 28th October 2014, I successfully carried out a webinar via Lync to teachers in Stockholm about how my school has been teaching 21st century skills through our holistic curriculum. Find out the details at this webpage.