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Challenge

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Getting Started

Aims of SLS Design Challenge 2018:

Participants will have opportunity to examine their own assumptions and limitations on learning with technology, explore and test out new ideas related to e-learning pedagogies and classroom environment as a community of learning designers in Singapore, and determine what works and evolve new pedagogies and strategies that are unique to the Singapore classrooms.

1. FORM A SUBJECT TEAM

One subject team (non-SLS pilot subject) per school comprises of HOD ICT(or equivalent), 1 Lead Designer (IP HOD/SH/ST/LT) & 2 other co-designers, supported by the *Vice Principal, in one of the subjects below:

English Language
Mother Tongue
Mathematics
Science
Humanities

*Vice Principals are encouraged to provide feedback to their subject teams on their design before enactment, pre and post-lesson observation and preparation for peer review session.

2. REVIEW THE CHALLENGE REQUIREMENT

Read through the Design Brief and the Submission Requirements & FAQs.

3. LEARN AND DESIGN

Attend a 1-day design workshop where you will have access to new knowledge from interacting with learning designers or experts. Hands-on sessions will be available to review current practices, gather new ideas, use SLS, including the SLS Pedagogical Scaffold to determine a specific Teaching and Learning challenge to work on and to work through the various steps in the SLS Pedagogical Scaffold.

4. DEVELOP AND ENACT YOUR DESIGN

Begin putting together your submission according to the submission requirements.

5. PITCH AND SHARE YOUR DESIGN

Attend a half-day session to pitch and share your lesson designs supported with learning artefacts with the community. Gather as many votes and your team will be invited to participate in the Learning Designers Symposium 2019.

6. SUBMIT YOUR LESSON DESIGN

When you’re ready to submit, submit the lesson design via SLS by Dec 2018. Include all the required documents.

Design Brief

Our Challenge Task:

"How might we use SLS to design for

active learning with technology and assess student learning

so that students can acquire deep learning and develop 21st century competencies?

Who are the learning designers?

What are the deliverables?

Co-design and develop lesson packages in SLS, guided by SLS Pedagogical Scaffold to bring about active learning with technology for subject outcomes and 21CC.
Lead own school in using SLS resources and tools to design lesson packages in at least 2-3 subjects for sharing in SLS.
Learn and adapt the learning designer experience of the "3Cs" to develop other teachers as designers of learning experiences and environments.
Participate and contribute in Singapore Learning Designers' Community (SgLDC) through sharing of lesson ideas and resources and online discussions.
Share good practices at the SG Learning Designers Symposium.

What are the role of members in the Design Team?

Submission Requirement and FAQs

All teams will submit the lesson design and the learning artefacts via the Student Learning Space.

The learning designs by the teams should explicate the following supported with students' evidence of learning where necessary:

Deep Learning Outcomes: The design promotes conceptual understanding, subject disciplinary thinking and development of 21st Century skills and competencies.
Constructive Alignment: The learning outcomes, learning activities with ICT and success criteria (assessment task) are aligned.
Active Learning with Technology: Technology effectively supports and promote the interactions between teacher, students and content.
Impact on Design: Evidence shows that students learning outcomes were met and/or the learning activities were effective.

More details will be provided at a later date.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

1. Can Pilot Schools join the Design Challenge?

Pilot Schools are welcome to join the Design Challenge. However, they will need to select a subject that is not the Trial Subject.

2. Can I choose subjects (e.g CCE, Music, Art etc) that are not listed?

The aims of the Design Challenge is to benefit as many subjects as possible. For the first Design Challenge, the focus will be on the following five subject areas English Language, Mother Tongue, Science, Mathematics and Humanities.

3. I am from one of the Junior Colleges and am interested to join the design challenge.

Can I participate?

The SLS Design Challenge 2018 welcomes all schools to participate. This will include the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary institutions. Please refer to the email sent by the zonal ICT committee.

4. I am a Vice-principal. Do I have to attend the 1-day Learn and Design Workshop?

There will be a Spotlight session designed for school leaders who are joining us for the workshop. It will touch on how the 3C design process can be translated back in schools.

5. Do I have to complete all the three suggested online modules before the 1-day Learn and

Design workshop?

It would be ideal to have completed all. However if you are really pressed for time, complete at least 1) Introduction to Singapore SLS and 2) Designing lessons with SLS Pedagogical Scaffold (Part 1).