I am on the fence with this point of the manifesto (Bayne, 2020). I can see the advantages and limitations of both the physical campus and online learning. My indecision led me to decide to use this blog post to chronicle my thought process and research on this topic. This is my attempt to use […]

  In summary, to me, this point of the manifesto highlights the need for teachers to be flexible in their pedagogical approach and selection of tools, and to continually think and re-think our teaching methods to be more student-centric. Reading this point of the manifesto brought to mind the above picture (image 1) that was […]

  No, for educators the discussion about “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” should not be completely abandoned. It should be reworked, because historically, any reductive attempt to dichotomize will almost inevitably lead to new discourses and discoveries. In his controversial article, Prensky (2001) used terms, such as “native speakers”, “digital language” and “accent”, that are […]

Currently, I am a lecturer at Nanyang Technological university teaching communications courses. I started teaching here in 2018 as a part-timer and only got converted to a faculty member last month. Previously, I taught semantics and pragmatics as well as language and literacy at Singapore University of Social Sciences for about two years. I started […]