Organised as the opening symposium of In the Ether — A Festival of Technology and Innovation, EdTech Futures offers a radical imagining of the future of learning.
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The symposium gathers thought leaders, futurists, startup disruptors, education practitioners and policymakers to discuss harbingers of change and transformative shifts in a technology-driven education landscape.
The programme considers how AI is reshaping modern education and a new way forward with disruptive technologies; how schools are integrating AI-enabled adaptive learning in the classrooms and keeping in step with the implementation of the EdTech Masterplan 2030 and Singapore’s National AI Strategy; national-level recommendations in navigating AI ethics in education and safeguarding the digital rights of the young in a digitalising world; and the role of the startup innovation industry in edtech’s capacity for change.
Speakers include 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗺 𝗦𝘂𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻 (Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at SMU), 𝗞𝗼𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗴 (Head of LearnAI at AI Singapore), 𝗗𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼 (Director of Office of Digital Learning and Sector Lead of campusX at SUTD), 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗻 (Senior Associate Director of the Futures Office at NUS), 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 (Head of Department for Information & Communications Technology at Lakeside Primary School) and 𝗥𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶 (Co-founder and CEO of Cialfo).
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲
- 2.00pm – 2.05pm
Welcome by Zhang Baoxin (Curator of Public Programmes at ArtScience Museum)
- 2.05pm – 2.10pm
Opening remarks by Adrian George (Director of Programmes, Exhibitions and Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)
- 2.10pm – 2.35pm
Professor Lim Sun Sun (Vice President of Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at SMU) on technology domestication in the Asian homestead and new parenting practices which need to be situated in contemporary technology use patterns.
- 2.35pm – 2.55pm
Koo Sengmeng (Head of LearnAI at AI Singapore) on AI Singapore’s work as a national programme in accelerating AI adoption across our city-state, including its outreach programmes which nurture young people to explore machine learning and critical thinking at their own pace.
- 2.55pm – 3.15pm
Dr Kenneth Lo (Director of Office of Digital Learning and Sector Lead of campusX at SUTD) on how SUTD leverages the latest digital learning pedagogies and cutting-edge technology to advance itself as a future-ready university with its campusX initiative.
- 3.15pm – 3.30pm
Chan Kok Hong (Head of Department for Information & Communications Technology at Lakeside Primary School) on classrooms of the future and how MOE schools are harnessing new technology and digital tools to transform how teachers teach and students learn.
- 3.30pm – 3.50pm
Rohan Pasari (Co-founder and CEO of Cialfo) on how edtech startups are transforming the global educational landscape, illustrated through Cialfo’s work that democratises access to universities by simplifying application and career counselling workflows.
- 3.50 – 4.10pm
Katrina Tan (Senior Associate Director of the Futures Office at NUS) on speculative futures for education.
4.10pm – 4.30pm: Panel Q&A with Professor Lim Sun Sun, Koo Sengmeng, Dr Kenneth Lo, Chan Kok Hong, Rohan Pasari and Katrina Tan, moderated by Zhang Baoxin
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