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Singapore teachers get web 2.0 resources
A new joint project between the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore and the country’s Ministry of Education (MOE) aims to provide teachers with all the information they need to leverage web 2.0 technologies for new approaches to learning.
edumall 2.0 (no, that’s not a typo, the MOE, with complete lack of irony insists on an ungrammatical lower case ‘e’ …) will provide teachers with resources and learning ideas and approaches from the Educational Technology Division (ETD) and the Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD) of MOE, as well as from companies specialising in digital educational materials, and similar networks in other countries.
Over the next few years edumall 2.0 will deliver a wide range of digital resources including full length videos, video clips, interactive web sites, multimedia activities, lesson plans and visual, aural and textual archived resources. Over the next few years edumall 2.0 will build up a wide data base of quality resources from trusted sources and provide an array of easy-to-use online tools and an effective search engine (so not Yahoo! then).
“Once edumall 2.0 has taken root among teachers, it will be opened to students so as to foster independent and collaborative learning and research,” said a spokesman for MOE. “Over time, we intend for edumall 2.0 to become self-sustaining, and, as much as possible, self-regulating. We envisage a wiki-community who will use edumall 2.0 to exploit the full potential of web 2.0 technologies for the creation of an international online community of learning.”
The resource site will also feature individual subject pages for each subject on the school curriculum that will develop into online centres for educational communities where teachers can discuss ideas, debate issues, and share resources and teaching tips with one another. Every teacher will have a private, online web space in edumall 2.0. This can be designed to meet individual needs and preferences so as to become a personalised online resource centre.
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