🎓 From Workshop to Classroom: Mr Kim Sze’s Spelling Game Inspired by Digital BrainSparks
📅 Posted: 17 July 2025
🧠 Workshop: Digital BrainSparks: Co-Creating Intelligent Math Challenges for High-Ability Learners
🧑🏫 Created by: Mr Kim Sze, Teacher-Participant
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✨ What’s This About?
As part of the Digital BrainSparks workshop hosted by AST and ETD on 11 July 2025, educators explored how to harness AI and HTML5 technologies to develop intelligent learning tools for high-ability learners. One particularly creative outcome emerged from Mr Kim Sze, who combined principles of guided phonics teaching with simple web interactivity.
The result? A beautifully designed Elkonin Box Spelling Game to help young learners identify, segment, and spell three-letter words.
🧩 Try the Game: “Let’s Spell Together!”
🔗 Play the simulation: https://sg.iwant2study.org/lookangejss/challengespell/index.html
This HTML5 spelling game helps students:
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Hear the target word and sentence via built-in speech synthesis
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Use drag-and-drop counters to represent phonemes
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Gradually uncover the corresponding letters in the correct sound boxes
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Learn through step-by-step instructions and audio guidance
Words included:
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👜 bag – “I carry books in a bag.”
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🛠️ fix – “I fix my broken toy.”
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☀️ sun – “The sun is bright.”
🧑🏫 Why It Works
This simulation exemplifies key ideas from the workshop:
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✅ Cognitive load management with guided, linear instructions
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✅ Active learner engagement through interactive counters and spelling boxes
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✅ Multimodal learning with visuals, audio, and motor actions
And best of all — it runs fully offline, with zero dependencies, and is easily embeddable into platforms like SLS and LMSes.
🎉 A Shout-Out to Mr Kim Sze
This project is a testament to how workshops like Digital BrainSparks spark meaningful teacher innovation. Mr Kim Sze took what he learned and turned it into a functional, pedagogically sound tool for spelling instruction — one that any teacher can use or adapt.
"It’s about showing what teachers can do with the right tools, time, and trust." — ETD Facilitator
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