The Straits Times reported today that the National University of Singapore (NUS) will be introducing compulsory writing modules for freshmen from August next year. The modules will focus on topics like press freedom, information and technology, or the environment. Students …

In the book, “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” written by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner suggested that schools should have teachers teaching outside of their subject specializations. They suggested that this approach would force the teachers to put themselves in …

In Singapore, passengers of our bus services are allowed to stand and one particular bus service has standing room in the front half of its buses while the seats are located in the rear half. During peak hours, these buses …

Following up on my previous blog post about John Seely Brown’s lecture on ““A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change”, I wonder what are the changes needed for schools to reflect how …

Recently, John Seely Brown or often referred to simply as “JSB”, a visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, breezed into Singapore and delivered a lecture entitled, “A New Culture of Learning: …

“Which people and what institutions will be most seriously harmed by this new technology?” ~ Neil Postman

This is the fourth question that is posed by Neil Postman in his attempt to get us to think of entering a serious …