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+“The session was very

Issue #1, Oct 2016 PAST EVENTS

informative & interactive”

2&9 Sept

Getting Started with BlueSky: Why & How ((TISP)

7 Sept

Planning for Flipped Classroom

Lecturer, MAHSA University

“The speaker was very well prepared & the information given is also very useful”

21 Sept BETT ASIA 2016 Awards Press Briefing Getting Started with BlueSky: Why & How ((TISP)

Teacher, TISP

23 Sept Google for Education Educators Community Meet up

27 Sept Visit to Nexus International School, Malaysia

28 Sept Enhancing Learning Through Effective Formative Feedback

29 Sept Introduction to Google Apps for Education for TCSJ

30 Sept Introduction to Google for Education Educators Community Meet up

Planning for Flipped Classroom

Google Apps for Education

BETT Asia 2016 Press Briefing 21 September 2016 – As a key supporter of BETT Asia 2016, AGILE organised a press briefing for BETT Asia at AGILE’s office. The event started with BETT Asia’s Ambassador, Jeffrey Ong providing an overview of BETT Leadership Summit & Expo. Thereafter, AGILE’s Vice President, Mohamad Ridwan Othman, briefed the media about AGILE and its partnership with BETT. He also explained about the importance of BETT Summit & Expo for education. Find out more about BETT Asia Summit here

EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Preparing our students for a VUCA world Dr Daniel Tan, Group Chief Learning Officer “The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organisation’s ability to learn faster than the competition.” Peter Senge The educational landscape has not ever seen tectonic changes in its domain in the last decade that has otherwise been relatively calm, consistent and complimentary. Today, we sit at the convergence of the perfect storm of technology, globalization and the new student profiles. In this new normal, technology is highly accessible by all at the same time. This has been made possible through connectivity of the Internet, the ubiquitous smart device in hands of students and teachers, and the democratization of highly accessible and searchable content. At the same time, not only are people more connected to one another, we are also connected to common focal points. It is these focal points that allow everyone - institution, business organization, etc - to be on the same page at the same time. This was only particularly true not too many years ago. As the IEEE Singapore Section Chair attending the IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) Region 10 meetings in the early 1990’s, a common gripe by our professional colleagues from the emerging economies was the significant time delay that their university libraries and their members received the highly respected IEEE journals and other publications; typically, due to the local postal services and infrastructure, it was not common to receive current issues up to 3 months later. For that reason, they felt disadvantaged in their research effort and responses as compared with the rest of the world. Take note: they got the same information, but 3 months later.



Today, the Internet has broken that time barrier – the whole world, without exception and regardless of geographical location via an electronic connection, can access the same piece of information at the same time as anyone else in the world. As educators, we are fully aware that the students we have in our classrooms are not the same as ourselves when we were students. Besides being techno-savvy, these Gen Z students are achievement oriented; they prefer collaboration and work in groups. They are better informed, and many have done things that we never experienced at their age, or our current age. Certainly, these students do not learn the same way that we did, or were traditionally trained to teach. We have often in our midst 21st Century students (the constructivist Googling Learner familiar with rich media and mixed reality) anchored by 20th Century policies and practices (disaggregation by subjects, one size fits all) based on 19th Century principles of student learning (teacher-centric, didactic, knowledge transfer). A term created by the military to described this new normal is VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Already we have new phenomena in our midst – a workplace of 5 generations of workers (traditional, baby boomers, Gen X, majority of Gen Y and a trickle of Gen Z people), not mentioning the dominance of Gen Z students in our classrooms. (In case you are wondering what comes after Gen Z, it is the alpha α generation for those born after 2010.) Repositories of multiple and diverse informational sources are connected via common search engines. We have more writers today than previous human history. Certainly, today, we have more readers then those who were formally trained to read; we can safely assume anyone, including the illiterate, who has a mobile phone is exposed to the spark of reading.

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The purpose of AGILE is an attempt to support the Taylor’s educational community in this journey of unprecedented rate of change. It will make brave attempts to take first steps in our VUCA response. It will be a response, which will necessitate AGILE working closely with colleagues from the schools, college and universities in the Taylor’s Family. As teachers and educators, we have the role and responsibility of creating a new generation of students who will learn rather differently from the “familiar and established”. They will likely be in job roles that are yet to be created. More than having reading and writing skills, they will be readers, writers and coders. They will also be competent knowledge organizers and curators. The mode of work will be social and collaborative, rather than competitive. They will see win-win “co-petition” (combination of co-operation and competition) as the normal mode of work relationships. As is true of the familiar saying, in the education world, “we live in interesting times”.

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HIGHLIGHTS ON AGILE’S EVENTS

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Google for Education Educator Community Meet up

September 23 - The Google Education Educator Community Meetup is a Google community initiated event that is held quarterly to gather education technology enthusiast from both the public and private sectors of Malaysia to learn, share and inspire each other. This time, it was held at AGILE Collaborative Learning Space. Educators from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Eduspect and Taylors International School, Puchong, attended this gathering and shared their ideas. Ng Joo Hui, our Learning Solution and Technologies Specialist, who is also a certified Google Trainer, did a presentation on Google Video Slam to share his idea on this new Google feature. Participants worked in 2 teams to discuss and present their own video slam ideas. It was a very interactive and informative session.

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FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

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Google’s top education experts predicts what schools will look like in 50 years Schools today look almost nothing like they did 50 years ago. Kids aren’t riffling through card catalogs or prying open dusty encyclopedias in the library — they’re browsing online databases and deftly rooting through Wikipedia on personal laptops. According to Jonathan Rochelle, head of product management for Google Apps for Education, the next 50 years might see even crazier advances. Collaboration will be king By 2066, Rochelle says, schools are poised to become highly collaborative spaces, thanks to the advent of virtual and augmented reality. Instead of needing to meet in the same physical space, kids could work on long-term projects remotely and interact through online platforms. Rochelle has a unique perspective on the value of teamwork: In 2006, he co-founded the Google Docs suite. He’s since worked on subsequent Drive products, many of which Google has brought to schools in the form of Google Classroom, a cloud-based platform that integrates Google Apps to expedite scheduling and notesharing. Rochelle believes schools of the future will embrace collaboration as a top priority as the Internet continues to bleed into people’s daily lives. “We should never underestimate the importance of social interaction and co-working,” he tells Business Insider. “So as much as schools want to get the value of calculus or coding into kids’ heads, let’s not forget to teach how to interact with each other.”

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Machines learn, kids learn

The tech revolution needs

For kids to work together in the best way possible, schools have to group them in the best possible way.

teachers to lead it

That’s where Rochelle sees machine learning entering the picture. Educators will be able to give students online tests that are smart enough to group kids by interest and skill level, rather than the current system of grouping them by age. That kind of intuitive machine learning could also help put kids on the right career path. Rochelle points to those often-mocked career placement tests that high school freshmen and sophomores take — the one that might’ve told you that you should either become a plumber or a heart surgeon. In the future, he says, there will be legitimate tools that can help guide students towards particular subjects. Those who don’t like math but show a strong capacity for reading and language may be told they don’t need to take calculus, for example, while another student whose scores favor math can focus on that.

But Rochelle knows technology can’t transform education on its own — it takes a smart application of cutting-edge products to help kids learn. As the world gets more technologically advanced, it’s partly up to teachers to make sure kids feel comfortable using the latest products effectively. Those are the skills that will give them the greatest leg up as citizens, Rochelle says. “Imagine if we could teach kids all the tools that are at their disposal,” he says, “and let them take the next step to stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Source: Business Insider Malaysia http://www.businessinsider.my/googleeducation-expert-predicts-future-ofschools-2016-8/#0bxQ51pmfBXJ4pGh.99

Sophisticated data like this will create the perfect conditions for the kind of collaboration that is essential to effective learning, Rochelle says. Over the next five decades, he also sees AI getting advanced enough for people to interact with machines in the same way people interact with one another. By 2066, he says, kids will be able to ask questions of classroom robots in the same way they’d ask a peer or their teacher. That innovation is already making waves in the field of law, in the form of robot legal assistants powered by IBM Watson. Rochelle suspects education won’t be far behind.

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HAPPENINGS AROUND TEG

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27 September – 27 September – AGILE visited Nexus International School to understand better on their learning spaces and Nexus teaching and learning philosophies. It was pretty amazing to discover that Nexus Putrajaya’s students learning were truly reflecting 21st century model where students were taught through experiential and collaborative learning styles. Nexus’s learning spaces were innovative and unique from one classroom to another, differentiated between subject matter, learning activities and level of study. We observed many classes from primary to secondary. It was fun to watch how students are able and willing to explore learning. They also demonstrated how to relate their primary understanding of a subject matter to “real world” content knowledge and skills. Linking multidisciplinary method of teaching and learning such as problem-based, inquiry-based and discovery-based learning brings the true meanings of conceptbased learning. During the visit, AGILE also shared their experiences and benefits of data analytics using Conexus. Conexus is a reliable data analytic platform which would provide the users insights to improve the learning environment

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Customised Programme: Introduction to Google Apps for Education for Taylor’s College, Subang Jaya.

“The trainer’s knowledge is superb!”

29 September - AGILE conducted a custom workshop on “Introduction to Google Apps for Education” for 24 lecturers from Cambridge A Levels programme at Taylor’s College, Subang Jaya Campus. This professional development programme conducted by Ng Joo Hui, the specialist of learning solution and technologies at AGILE and certified trainer of Google for Education, was an introductory session designed to inspire educators to teach and learn with Google Apps for Education including Chrome, Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sites, as well as Forms. Besides introducing what Google for Education has to offer, the programme demonstrates the use of Google Apps in teaching and learning by getting participants to share their notes taken using Docs for comments. In order to enhance the class engagement, Learner Response System (Clickers) was used in the session for participants to vote for the sequence of topic to be covered based on most interested first. The feedbacks received from the educators were very positive and AGILE is looking forward to conduct more of similar workshops within Taylor’s Group.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Planning for Flipped Classroom (2 Nov)

Issue #1, Oct 2016 Working Collaboratively to create Google Sites for Learning (4 Nov)

Chrome Ninja’s Tips & tricks for Education (10 Nov)

Enhancing Learning Through Effective Feedback Formative Formative Feedback (9 Nov)

Introduction to Course Manager and iBooks Author (7 Nov) Educating for Global Citizenship – BETT Asia 2016 (15 & 16 Nov)

Participative Learning & Teaching using Learner Response System (Clickers) (23 Nov)

Using Technology to Engage & Gamify Learning Experiences (28 Nov)

Highlight of the month:

Differentiated Learning for Higher Education (25 Nov)

Deep Learning: A Learning Concept (30 Nov)

October 2016.pdf

Summit & Expo for education. Find out more about BETT Asia. Summit here. BETT Asia 2016 Press Briefing. “The session was very. informative &. interactive”.

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