SST Tech Summit 2017

• Use of ICT in the learning and assessment in Math is rather limited despite we have progressed to MP4. 
• The sharing will focus on the use of different forms of ICT as tool of learning to allow Primary Math learners to explore and reflect Math in a self-directed manner and contruct their knowledge via self-motivated and cooperative  learning.
• Despite the nature of the sharing, you would be able to bring back ideas on how to carry out lessons mediated by ICT
• Do bring along a laptop to have some learning experience during the sharing :)

Toontastic 3D is a step up from the previous iteration and is still a wonderful storytelling app that students can use to bring their writing alive. Students can begin animating their story with just a touch of a button. With a good storyline, students can be awesome movie directors in an instant!

In this lesson setting, pupils are designated as reporters and editors to investigate and gather data for an incident, through the use of QR codes and face-to-face interviews. The reporters then send these real-time data back to the base through GAFE (Google Docs), where the editors will then proceed to do a write-up for the incident. The group then collaborated more information to complete the writing assignment using GAFE (Google account and DOCs) from home, before their individual composition writing.

Besides GAFE skills, the team acquire other knowledge such as being able to discern the data collected, working with others and making sound decisions to put the best team member on the job.

Do bring along your smartphone of tablet with Google Docs and QR Reader downloaded. :))

Google Earth Engine offers teachers and students a unique way to view how our world is changing . . . over time! Discover how composite satellite imagery can be used for research, analysis, and critical thinking projects related to geography, man's impact on the environment, and understanding other global issues. Google Timelapse will put the entire Earth at your fingertips, where you can see the changes across a region over the last 30 years. Please bring a laptop or other mobile device for this hands-on workshop.

In this session, the presenters will describe how Google Sites and Google tools are utilised to support teaching and learning in the CBL curriculum. Through the use of Google Sites to update their progress and upload team videos, students are kept engaged at each stage of the CBL process. Through the use of Google tools such as google sheets to create automation for assessment, teachers are empowered to carry out differentiated instructions and formative assessment for Express/NA/NT students. Participants will also have an opportunity to find out how data analytics are employed to assess students' performances so as to further improve the Google Docs and Google Sites platforms.

In this presentation, we hope to share the rationale and intent, as well as process and potential pitfalls in IJC’s attempt to have all staff Google Certified. We hope that this sharing will encourage other schools to embark on similar approaches to help their staff obtain baseline competencies in managing the Google Apps Suite.

We would be sharing the following:
- Process of getting teachers on board (How to get buy-in)
- Creation of suitable resources
- Importance of having school support (tech support / school management support)
- Reflections coordinating it (sharing some concerns our teachers had)
- Takeaway from face to face workshops (how they can be applied to IJC classrooms)

Introducing the use of ArcGIS in the Geography classroom. Presenters will show how GIS can be adopted easily to enhance the concepts of time, place and scale and to bring Geography to life assimilating authentic learning, using the inquiry approach.

Handphone applications can be tapped on not just as a source of handy information but can also be used to facilitate the teaching and learning of Biology. Participants of the session will be shown how to use these apps within a lesson, whether as a means to teach the lesson or for student self-assessment. For example, the ‘Cell World’ app can be used to help students visualise parts of the cell through 3D images while the ‘Digestive System Lab’ app allows for self-assessment of students’ knowledge about the digestive system. Other apps will allow students to find answers to Ten-Year Series questions. Suggestions as to how each app should be used, as well as the limitations of each app, will be also be shared during the session.

Game of life is a simulation game where people could go to manned stations to get a job, education, buy and sell assets, stocks and make contributions. This game uses a Google spreadsheet that is unique to each player and they are able to keep stock of their 'life' digitally. By using Google forms and apps script, a station master could enter a request through a Google form to enable the person to buy and sell 'virtual assets', hire or get an education. The apps script running on the form will update each player's Google spreadsheet accordingly. This session will allow the participants to experience the game, how the apps script could link the forms to the spreadsheets and how apps scripts could help manage data effectively in different spreadsheets.

Yusof Ishak Secondary School embarked on its One to One Computing Programme (1:1 Computing) in 2013. Since then, the programme has been extended to the rest of the levels in the school in different ways.

This session aims to share with school leaders, key personnel and teacher leaders who are planning or have just started to embark on the 1:1 computing journey with their schools.

YISS believes that strong pedagogy is the key underpinning factor that drives effective teaching which in turn, deepens students’ learning. Participants will be given opportunities through facilitated discussions using GAFE tools.

Through this session, participants can gain practical knowledge pertaining the administrative processes and pedagogical aspects in the process of implementing a 1:1 computing programme. The aspect of professional development, teachers’ motivation and lesson designs in relation to this programme will be covered as well.

To provide a platform for the conduct of onsite Place-based Learning during Field Trips. The learning approach allows the setup of a temporary classroom to support the learning of students on-site. In this setting, a group of students participated in an environmental science field study to experience knowledge integration and a decision-making process. The project involves a group of students engaged in a 2-phase science and planning project. In phase 1, students will work on six research topics to understand the characteristics of an organic farm and in phase 2, they will plan for the development of an ecological village. Students collected and analysed data from the field and shared their findings. Should there be any problems with the data collected, they will be able to refine their methods of data collection immediately. Throughout the project, students will experience the development of integrated knowledge, the challenges of knowledge sharing and communication during their collaboration. This will allow students to learn through a collaborative problem-solving process, including the interdependence of knowledge and the development of mutual relationships such as respect and care for others’ knowledge and learning. Through this project, we attempt to encapsulate all the value-propositions of SST. They key Google Apps used are Google Maps and Google Sketchup.

This presentation will first briefly covers the global trend on online lessons and conferencing that have changed the education landscape. The presenter will then talk on issues like the path-dependency, the school’s Google environment and the availability of learner-empowered technology, and how these considerations influence him to choose Google Hangout as a convenient online tool to conduct virtual lessons and student-teacher consultations despite the availability of other similar web conferencing tools. He will further demonstrate how he has conducted consultations and lessons with his students, as well as the students’ receptiveness towards this mode of teaching. A live demonstration on how to initiate Google Hangout conferencing with students will also be done. Finally, he will discuss possible pedagogical potentials and limitations, and the technical challenges in using web conferencing tools like Google Hangout.

In the drive to differentiate the learning experience and learning support of our students, it is imperative that we start at better understanding the students' current level of attainment and this can be done through the judicious analysis of students' work. GoogleSheets can be used to provide an immediate feedback to students on their areas of strengths and weakness so that steps can be taken to maximise areas of strengths whilst compensating for weaknesses.

Through the use of the functionalities of GoogleSheets, we will walk through the analysis process and how this knowledge help to shape the direction and learning experience of a Secondary 4 Mathematics class.