Dr Teo Chew Lee Organises the Knowledge Building Design Studio 2021 and Publishes an Op-Ed with Assoc Prof Tan Seng Chee

Dr Teo Chew Lee, Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, has organised the Knowledge Building Design Studio 2021 and has published an op-ed in TODAY (online).

The Knowledge Building Design Studio (KBDS) brings students, teachers, and researchers together to collectively work on real-world issues using the Knowledge Building (KB) pedagogy. The KBDS 2021 was held on 3 and 4 June 2021, with the theme of “Saving Planet, Saving Lives”, and saw over 40 students from across Singapore participate. Read more about previous runs of the KBDS at the respective links: KBDS 2019 and KBDS 2020.

The op-ed, co-authored by Dr Teo and Assoc Prof Tan Seng Chee, Assoc Dean (Graduate Education by Research) at the Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning, is titled “Why AI can better help students as a learning buddy and not as a teacher”. Dr Teo and Assoc Prof Tan tackle the question of what role AI will play in classrooms of the future, and they conclude that: “The choice is obvious: Do not use AI to replace human teachers but use it as a learning companion to augment human judgment and learning.”.