Transforming teaching and learning through a computer mediated environment

Abstract

This paper reports on an attempt to transform our teaching and learning in schools to prepare our students to not only survive but thrive in the global knowledge-economy of the new millennium. Through integrating technology in the teaching and learning process, the adoption of cooperative learning strategies and inter-disciplinary project work (IPW), some forty students and ten teachers from two Singapore neighbourhood secondary schools were engaged in knowledge building through the SUCCESS-COMMONTOWNTM projects. The projects were designed to take into consideration lessons learned from the first study, SUCCESS-ScienceALIVE II. After eight months of collaboration among students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners, a number of positive outcomes have been observed.