This document discusses innovations in education through technology. It describes Singapore's vision to be a Smart Nation where technology seamlessly enables meaningful lives and opportunities for all. A Smart Nation anticipates citizen needs, efficiently delivers services through technology, and empowers people to solve problems. The document outlines current and future initiatives including personalized and play-based early childhood learning, learning analytics for insights, smart learning spaces, and using Internet of Things data in schools for authentic learning. It emphasizes using technology to provide better education rather than just raise test scores, and the importance of meaningful, significant and fulfilling work.

1. Innovating for Education
in a Smart Nation

2. “Our vision is for Singapore to be a Smart Nation –
A nation where people live meaningful and fulfilled
lives, enabled seamlessly by technology, offering
excitingopportunitiesforall.”
PrimeMinisterLeeHsienLoong

3. ASMARTNATIONIS
ANTICIPATES NEEDS
OF OUR PEOPLE
IS MORE EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF
SERVICES THROUGH
TECHNOLOGY
EMPOWERS CITIZENS TO
SOLVE PROBLEMS
ONETHAT…

4. Current Short to Medium Long Term
Download the Report:
http://www.mci.gov.sg/infocomm-media-2025

5. Programme
Grooming our Talents from Young

6. 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

7. PlayMakerTech-enabledToys&Resources
Circuit Stickers Bee Bot
KIBO littleBits

8. Social Robots in Early Childhood Education –
Collaborative Play and Story-telling

9. AUTONOMOUS VEHICLESTHAT REDUCE MANPOWER, LAND, ENERGY & RESOURCE NEEDS
nuTonomy to Test World's First Fully Autonomous
Taxi Service in Singapore This Year

10. MEDICATION DISPENSINGTHAT REDUCE MANPOWER, LAND, ENERGY & RESOURCE NEEDS

11. 95%LESS WATER
50%LESS LABOUR
5¢ENERGY/KG
900%MORE YIELD
SKYGREENVERTICALFARMING

12. Paro

13. ROSA (Robotic Arm assists
surgeon)
Robear (Caregiver robot to lift
patients)

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

15. 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)

16. AnalyticsforStudentLearningInsights
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

17. HolisticQuotient
Making sense of different data types and seeing relationships

18. can provide differentiated content to engage different
learners
Smart Learning Spaces

19. 200 visits
100 visits
200 visits
Location-based Analytics 
Enhance exhibit design based on visitors’ patterns

20. 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

21. SMART NATION CREATES
INSIGHTS FROM DATA

22. 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)

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

24. 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.

25. your analysis is only as good as your data
AVOID “GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT”:

27. Internet of Things @ Schools
Authentic Learning environments for our students

28. 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

29. 18 July 2016 (RESTRICTED) 29
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

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

33. Good work (learning)
needs to be Meaningful,
Significant and Fulfilling
– a sense of higher
purpose
Barry Schwartz
Professor of Psychology
at Swarthmore College

35. “Ironman” delivers a Real Bionic 3D Printed Arm
Innovating with a Purpose

36. 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.

38. 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 Cator
President and CEO, Digital Promise
Former Director , Office of Education Technology
(U.S. Department of Education)

39. “We are spending too much time measuring progress and
not enough time making progress.”
(WGBH News 29 Oct 2015)
Paul Reville
Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Education Policy and
Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

42. 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

43. 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.

44. 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?

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

46. THANK YOU