ETD Senior Specialists’ Meeting 27 Feb 2019

for my learning.

Terms of Reference

• Champion and realise the vision of Every Senior Specialist, a Thought Leader for ETD Senior Specialists
• Provide direction for ETD Senior Specialist work streams
• Advise on matters (including research, professional growth and development, human resources) related to the ETD Senior Specialists

Key Areas for Knowledge Building LEARNING SCIENCES &

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

1. Digital Making
1. How can we leverage making as an approach to equip students with creative skills & mind-set for innovation? 
2. Learning & media design
1. How can we design quality educational media and experiences?
3. Data-driven learning
1. How can we deliver quality self-directed & personalised learning using timely insights and adaptive technologies?
4. Design of learning spaces
1. How does technology, learning spaces & learning interactions impact learning experiences & outcomes?

Senior Specialist Role Profiles

• How and where are ETD Senior Specialists performing these functions?

• What else should ETD Senior Specialists be doing?

advocates for open educational resources

• What should ETD Senior Specialists stop doing?

• What do you know about that no one else in MOE knows?

how to design simulations for handphones.

• What can you do that no one else in MOE can do?

making high quality simulations, virtual laboratories and games for SLS using Easy JavaScript Simulation.

video analysis and modelling using Tracker for Physics education performance tasks and maintaining the Singapore Tracker library for Tracker software itself.

packaging Easy JavaScript Simulation as Android and iOS apps for the respective App Stores

maintaining a content management system like Joomla to market Open Source Physics @ Singapore library

• What would be missing from MOE if you were no longer around?

no more go to person for Open Source Physics at Singapore.

Senior Specialists Clusters

Curriculum Cluster Areas of Specialisations

Specialists in this cluster are involved in different aspects of Curriculum work such as  the development of curricular frameworks and instructional approaches, programme design and development, resource development, and the design and evaluation of test and assessment modes.

• Applied Learning

• Assessment

• Early Childhood

• Educational Technology

• Gifted Education

• Learning Support

• Design for Learning

• Special Education

• Student Development

• Subject Disciplines

Senior Specialist Sub-Specialisations

• Locate your cluster and area of specialisation from the non-exhaustive list provided

• Explicate (briefly) your sub-specialisation, including:

• How you are applying domain expertise (of sub-specialisation) to branch and divisional work

design thinking classroom of the future

help teachers to bring their ideas on simulations to life and if need publish as mobile Apps

technical trainer for SLS Hackathon to create SLS games/simulations.

• How you are expanding your domain expertise and influence, i.e. exercising thought leadership

making interactive for chemistry, chinese and mathematics.