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Universities should make use of more technology in teaching to facilitate lifelong learning
The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred local educational institutions to accelerate the use of technology. This includes accelerating plans to provide all secondary school students with personal learning devices seven years ahead of schedule, and creative teaching through a hybrid model involving school and home.
SUTD signs research collaboration agreement with Mexican top private University, Tecnológico de Monterrey
The three year agreement marks the beginning of the SUTD-Tecnológico de Monterrey research collaboration on the improvement of cyber-physical learning through the SUTD campusX initiative.
Singapore’s politicians are strangely popular on TikTok
Welcome to the land where media laws and youthful optimism have made TikTok a bubble of positivity.
Behind the Scenes: Minister Chan Chun Sing became a “student” and Minister Josephine Teo became a “reporter”
8 World News: Watch Minister Josephine Teo act as reporter at the Future Communications Connectivity Lab official launch event, where she interviewed SUTD students and presented prototypes.
The Climate Conversations: Why is it so hard to recycle?
Dr Samuel Chng was interviewed in the Channel News Asia’s podcast series on the psychology of recycling behaviour, “The Climate Conversations: Why is it so hard to recycle?” on 20 October 2022.
Defining A Better AI Future For All
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but it also needs to be ethical. For some, the path towards ethical AI starts with how we talk about it.
Cities + Water: Singapore
Unravel published an article on cities and water management with a focus on how Singapore does it, and included expert quotes from LKYCIC senior fellow, Dr Harvey Neo.
The Big Read: Is society becoming less informed as social media platforms shun hard news?
In what has been dubbed as the “TikTokification” of social media, platforms are for example deprioritising news and more serious content on users’ feeds, which observers say will have ramifications for the news media and the proper functioning of society.
I watched a metaverse concert and this is what it was like
There was a “DJ” on a large, illuminated stage playing a remix of Coldplay’s hit A Sky Full of Stars, and there were dozens of “people” dancing to the beat.
Digital tools may be the key to longer life
1 in 2 are confident they will be able to live to 100
