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Discover how Blangah Rise Primary School uses technology and AI tools to build students' digital skills and foster independent, collaborative learning.

Last updated on 27 August 2026

In Blangah Rise Primary School, we aim to grow every student's digital competencies to leverage ICT meaningfully to support and enhance learning.

Four young students in school uniforms sit around a table with laptops, talking and facing a classroom display screen.

Developing Self-Directed and Collaborative Learners

“You will be interacting with SALiS in the Student Learning Space (SLS) through the Idea Generator to brainstorm ideas for your story, before sharing your responses with your peers on the Discussion Board.” Such learning experiences spark excitement and curiosity among our students. By leveraging the affordances of AI-enabled features in SLS, our teachers design meaningful opportunities for both self-directed and collaborative learning.

Students actively engage in generating, evaluating, and refining ideas, demonstrating the 21^st Century Competencies - Critical, Adaptive and Inventive Thinking (CAIT), while participating in purposeful discussions that strengthen their Communication, Collaboration and Information Skills (CCI). Classrooms are thus enlivened with rich dialogue, as students build on one another’s ideas to deepen their understanding and enhance their learning.

Effectiveness of ICT-based lessons

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Student in foreground types on a laptop in a classroom where other students work at laptops.

Technology empowers students to take ownership of their learning through self-directed and collaborative experiences. With platforms such as the Student Learning Space (SLS), students can learn anytime and anywhere at their own pace, receive timely feedback, and engage meaningfully with their peers. By leveraging technology and AI-Enabled Features in SLS, we provide adaptive support and personalised learning experiences, creating active, participatory classrooms that nurture future-ready learners.

Building up ICT skills through our EdTech Programme

We adopt a spiral and progressive approach in developing our students with essential digital skills with alignment to the age-appropriate digital competencies, curriculum and learning experience.

Student uses a stylus on a tablet at a classroom table while other students work on tablets nearby.

Students in a classroom work on tablets at green tables, with posters covering the back wall.

Our EdTech programme adopts a spiral and progressive approach, developing students’ essential digital skills in alignment with age-appropriate competencies, curriculum goals, and meaningful learning experiences. Students build confidence and capability in using technology as a tool for learning, communication, and creation. All Primary 4 to 6 students complete a mandatory foundational module on AI, developed by MOE, to prepare them for an increasingly AI-integrated world.

EdTech Programme's Digital Competency goals and Learning Activities for Primary 1-6

Level	Digital Competency	Learning Activities
Primary 1	Device and Software Operations	PC Literacy and Touchtyping
Primary 1	Digital Knowledge Currency	Use of Student Learning Space
Primary 2	Digital Knowledge Currency	Use of Student Learning Space
Primary 2	Digital Communication, Collaboration and Participation	Google Classroom with Google Word
Primary 3	Digital Knowledge Currency	Use of Student Learning Space
	Digital Communication, Collaboration and Participation	Google Classroom with Google Slides
	Data Competencies	Google Excel
Primary 4	Data Competencies	Google Excel
	Digital Communication, Collaboration and Participation Device and Software Operations	Student Learning Space with AI Enabled Features Google Classroom Open Tech Tools
Primary 5 and 6	Digital Communication, Collaboration and Participation Device and Software Operations	Student Learning Space with AI Enabled Features Google Classroom Open Tech Tools to represent information and ideas for tasks and projects Discussion Forums and Padlets
	Digital Information Management	Synthesise information at research and checks credibility of information generated by AI in tasks and projects.
	Data Competencies	Data representations in Google Excel for projects.

Apple in Education

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The intuitive design and user-friendly interface of Apple technology empower students to take ownership of their learning and support self-directed exploration. This aligns with the principles of deep learning, where students actively lead their own inquiry and learning processes. By leveraging the affordances of Apple technology, we design rich and engaging learning experiences that are accessible to all learners. These experiences are thoughtfully aligned with the 21st Century Competencies and the Key Applications of Technology, ensuring purposeful and meaningful integration in teaching and learning.

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Three schoolchildren in uniforms sit at desks, looking at a tablet showing a dessert recipe page.

Two girls in white uniforms hold a tablet up to a barred window, photographing trees outside.

Student wearing glasses uses a stylus on a tablet at a desk with a pencil case and stationery.

To deepen knowledge and conceptual understanding, students engage in research-based tasks that require them to articulate their thinking, refine their ideas, and make meaning from what they have learnt. Through this process, students develop perseverance, take ownership of their learning, and strengthen their communication skills as they share their work with peers.

Altair from Primary 5 shared, “Through the use of an iPad, I can learn independently based on the task my teacher has assigned to me. I have greater ownership of my learning. My technology skills have also improved when I have learnt to use Pages, Spilt View and Airdrop in the iPad.”

Sebastian from Primary 3 added, “I like the drag-and-drop activity in Pages. We are learning how to give feedback, not doing a writing lesson, so dragging the boxes is easier and faster. I can see what I think more easily.”

Through our EdTech lessons, we aim to nurture confident learners and caring leaders, equipped with the skills, mindset, and values needed for the future.