Future School – USA, UK and Singapore

Tiong Ting MingChief Information Officer (CIO)Inti Universal Holdings Bhd

Framework for 21st Century Skills

4th Sep 2009

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Knowledge Navigator•A concept described by former Apple Computer CEO

John Sculley in his 1987 book, Odyssey.

• It describes a device that can access a large

networked database of hypertext information, and use

software agents to assist searching for information.

•a tablet style computer with numerous advanced

capabilities, including an excellent text-to-speech

system with no hint of "computerese",

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Knowledge Navigator

•A gesture based interface reminiscent of the

multitouch interface used on the iPhone and an

equally powerful speech understanding system.

•Allowing the user to converse with the system via

an animated "butler" as the software agent.

• It was criticized as being an unrealistic portrayal

of the capacities of any software agent in the

foreseeable future, or even in a distant future.

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Knowledge Navigator

•For some however this video prototype was

and/or still is a source of motivation for their work.

•They see it as a goal set in a future they might

help create one day.

•The advent of the Internet and the World Wide

Web and several devices marketed by Apple's

competitors would indeed fulfill some of the

visions of the Knowledge Navigator

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Knowledge Navigator

•Movie - Knowledge Navigator By Apple Inc

•Movie - iPhone By Apple Inc

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Smart School - 1995

•Teaching-Learning Materials

•Smart School Management System

•Support services

•Systems integration

•Professionally Trained Teachers

•Smart School Assessment System

•Technology Infrastructure.

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Smart School

•Movie – Malaysian Smart School by TSS

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Building School for the Future (BSF)

•Building Schools for the Future is a 15-year strategic national investment programme

▫3,500 schools across 150 local authorities

•£2.2bn per annum of capital investment

•Transforming education and delivering 21st Century standards in secondary schools across England

•Equip all with new ICT infrastructure, equipment and shared learning platforms

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Building School for the Future (BSF)

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Future School

•Microsoft Corp’s worldwide Innovative Schools

programme works with governments, educators

and partners around the world to build schools

that meet the challenges of 21st-century

learning.

•School of the Future Website:

•http://www.microsoft.com/education/

SchoolofFuture.mspx

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Future School

•First Future school in the world - 2006

•USA: Philadelphia School of the Future

•Type of school: Public secondary (ages 14–18)

•Number of students: 170 (to be 750)

•Location: Philadelphia

•Neighbourhood high school with comprehensive

curriculum (not special admit)

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Future School•New construction in West Philadelphia.

•Approximately $63 million total construction budget

•Microsoft contribution primarily human capital,

partnership development support and Microsoft

Consulting and Support (MCS)

•Best practices and innovations to be shared worldwide.

•School opened 7 Sept 2006

•Movie – Future School, USA

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Future School

•The lessons learned from these schools helped

Microsoft to evolve the Innovative Schools

programme to expand to 12 locations around

the world.

•They will continue to be an essential part of the

programme, acting as ‘mentors’ to the

following 12 schools:  

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Future School

1. Brazil – Insituto Escola Lumiar

2. Canada – Literacy@School

3. Chile – Centro Educacional Erasmo Escala

Arriagada

4. Finland – Ritaharjun Yhtenaisperuskoulu

5. France – École Chateaudun

6. Germany – Ottobrunn

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Future School

7. SAR Hong Kong – Fung Kai No 2. Primary School

8. Ireland – Dunshaughlin Community School

9. Mexico – Escuela Secundaria Technica Estata No

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10.Qatar – Al-Bayan Independent School for Girls

11.Sweden – Bjorknas School

12.UK – Bowring Community Sports College

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Future School

•Singapore: Crescent Girls School

•Type of school: Public secondary (ages 13–16)

•Number of students: 1239

•Location: Singapore

•One of the original schools to participate in

Microsoft’s BackPack.NET initiative in Singapore.

•BackPack.NET

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Future School•Collaboration between the Infocomm Development

Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Microsoft Singapore

•Goal: to enhance the learning experience through

technology in education

•Launched in October 2003, five-year initiative

•Encourages student-centric learning using Tablet

PCs, digital-inking applications and other innovative

technologies

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Crescent Girls School

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Learning Space

Crescent Girls School

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Physic Lesson with Tablet PC

Crescent Girls School

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Interlocking Chairs and Tables

Crescent Girls School

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Teacher’s Bench

Crescent Girls School

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Manga Art Lab

Crescent Girls School

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Manga Art Lab

Crescent Girls School

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Teacher’s Bench

Crescent Girls School

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Virtual Exercise with Nintendo Wii

Crescent Girls School

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Digital Music Lab

Crescent Girls School

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Amphitheatre

Crescent Girls School

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Eco Park

Future School

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A Bendemeer Secondary School student intent on a class activity during a design and technology lesson

Bendemeer Secondary School students learning their mother tongue using tablet PCs during a Tamil language lesson

Star Education Fair Sunday August 24, 2008

IT-wired schools

Stories by TAN EE LOO

Future School

•Collaboration between the Infocomm

Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and

Microsoft Singapore

•Movie – Future School

• International Conference on Teaching and

Learning with Technology (iCTLT)

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•2008

•Five FutureSchools@Singapore

1. Canberra Primary School,

2. Beacon Primary School (New)

3. Crescent Girls’ School,

4. Jurong Secondary and

5. Hwa Chong Institution

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Future School• Innovative teaching methods and engaging lessons

•Widespread use of Information and Communications

Technology (ICT).

• In alignment with IDA’s iN2015 vision for Education

and Learning, MOE plans to select and develop up

to 15 schools by 2015 in a few phases.

•Movie – iN2015 - Intelligent Nation 2015

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