Professor Manu Kapur is the keynote speaker.
These are the 2 persons who created wonderful learning resources which can take over the roles of teachers.
Khan Academy
Walter Lewin
Teachers' role has to shift from transmitting knowledge to facilitating pupils' knowledge construction. Technology can never the replace the job of a teacher. As educators, we need to learn to scaffold pupils' learning so that pupils can acquire the 21st century skills to adapt to the demands of the changing world.
Knowledge keeps changing. What is valid today may not be valid tomorrow. Pupils need to equip with the skills of self-directed learning.
Get pupils to be involved in the design not just model for pupils.
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