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Prof. Ben Leong delivers keynote at Anderson Secondary School
On 11 November 2026, Prof. Ben Leong, Director of AICET, delivered a keynote address to the teaching staff of Anderson Secondary School as the school concluded a year of professional learning.The talk explored what it means to be an AI-ready educator through four questions: how AI affects learning, whether students will still have jobs, what schools should teach, and how AI should be used. AI and learning Prof. Ben made clear from the outset that he was not there to persuade teachers to use AI. Drawing on recent research, including a 30-month study of over 26,000 secondary students in China,…
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Keeping the Human at the Centre: AICET’s Prof. Soo Yuen Jien Speaks at RGS Staff Development Day
On 10 November 2026, AICET was invited to speak at Raffles Girls’ School’s (RGS) annual professional development event, attended by more than 100 RGS staff. The programme featured two speakers: Prof. Soo Yuen Jien, AICET Deputy Director (Pedagogy and Research), and Felix Goh from Google. Prof. Soo’s talk, was organised around two themes. The first covered how AI can be integrated into courses meaningfully, drawing on NUS policy and examples from across the university. The second looked further ahead, at how AI is reshaping work and what that means for universities and schools. From catching AI use to designing it…
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Teaching Is About Heart: AICET Director Addresses MOE SDCD
On 10 November 2026, Prof. Ben Leong, Director of AICET, delivered the keynote at MOE’s Student Development Curriculum Division (SDCD) Divisional Learning Day 2026. In his talk, “Preparing our students for an AI-driven future”, he made clear he was not there to convince teachers to use AI to teach. Instead, he addressed four questions: the risks of AI, how students should use it, what schools should teach, and how educators should use it. Understanding the risks Prof. Ben cited a June 2026 study, “The Generative AI Learning Penalty”, which followed 26,811 secondary students in China over 30 months, alongside recent…
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ScholAIstic in Practice: AICET Hosts HKBU’s Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning
On 6 November 2026, AICET welcomed a delegation from the Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). The visit was co-hosted by AICET Director Prof. Ben Leong and Deputy Director (Research and Pedagogy) Prof. Soo Yuen Jien, and centred on ScholAIstic, AICET’s platform for educators to design AI-enabled learning activities. The session covered the platform’s features, how NUS educators are using it in their teaching, and what is coming next. Design, monitor, evaluate ScholAIstic lets educators design, monitor and evaluate AI-enabled learning activities. To date, AICET has worked on 23 projects with NUS educators, with…
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AICET Takes KouShi’s Learnings to AI Engineer Shanghai
On 5 and 6 November 2026, AICET joined about 1,600 developers, researchers and practitioners at AI Engineer Shanghai, the first edition of the AI Engineer conference series held in China. AICET was represented by Satvik Sinha, Yang Hui Ting and Karina Yuen, with Satvik presenting a talk on streaming speech-to-text drawn from the team’s work on KouShi. Engineers from East and West in one room Held at the Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao, the two-day conference brought together more than 50 speakers from leading AI labs and companies in both East and West. Engineers shared how they build AI products in practice,…
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What Should Students Learn When AI Can Do So Much?: Perspectives from Australia and Singapore
On 6 November 2026, AICET welcomed Dave Armstrong, Principal of Wangaratta High School in Victoria, Australia, and a board member of the Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals (VASSP). The visit was hosted by Jonathan Chen, Deputy Director (Engineering), who shared how AICET is approaching teaching and learning as AI becomes part of everyday schooling. More than knowing how to prompt Jonathan began with a challenge familiar to schools and universities alike. As AI tools spread, there is a temptation to treat “using AI” as the skill students most need. In AICET’s view, prompting AI is not the end-all skill:…
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AI in Schools, Guided by Pedagogy: A Visit from Sejong City Office of Education
On 5 November 2026, AICET hosted a delegation from the Sejong City Office of Education. Prof. Ben Leong, Director of AICET, shared how the centre builds AI tools around the needs of teachers and how these tools are being used in Singapore schools. From university labs to school classrooms Prof. Ben explained that AICET’s work starts from a simple premise: AI should not replace teachers, but help them do what they already do, better. Educational innovation, in his view, is less a technology problem than a pedagogy problem. Each platform therefore begins with a real classroom need, is built and…
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Effective AI Adoption Is a People Problem: AICET Welcomes SWIPC
On 4 November 2026, AICET welcomed a delegation from the Korea Regional Software Industry Promotion Council (SWIPC). Hosted by Prof. Ben Leong, Director of AICET, the visit offered the delegation a look at how a university centre takes educational software from an idea in the classroom to a platform used by thousands of students across NUS and Singapore schools. Start with the problem, not the technology Prof. Ben began by explaining why AICET does not treat educational innovation as a technology challenge. In his view, the harder questions are about pedagogy, and the Centre’s goal is not to replace teachers…
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AICET at GMC 2026: Reimagining Education at the Speed of AI
On 3 November 2026, AICET’s Deputy Director (Engineering) took up a question that many educators are now asking at the 2026 Global MOOC and Online Education Conference (GMC 2026) in Hanoi, Vietnam: if AI can do so much, what is left for education to teach? His answer, in a talk titled Reimagining Education at the Speed of AI, was that the purpose of education has not changed, and that AI should widen rather than narrow what students learn. A gathering on the human-AI future Held from 2 to 4 November 2026, GMC 2026 brought nearly 400 delegates from more than…
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Pedagogy First, Technology Second: AICET Shares Its Approach with Educators from the Moscow Region
On 30 October 2026, AICET hosted a delegation of educators from Primakov School in the Moscow Region. The delegation was led by Ms Maiia Maisuradze, Principal, and included Ms Anna Mara, Head of Leadership Department; Ms Irina Kurlykova, Head of Professional Development Department; Ms Viktoria Petrova, Head of Boarding; Mr Artemii Yeliseev, Vice-Principal for IT; Mr Ivan Savinykh, Producer and Teacher of Music; and Mr Daniel Pagnoccolo, Head of International Department. The session was led by Prof. Ben Leong, Director of AICET, who gave an overview of how the Centre develops its AI-based learning platforms, the platforms now in use…
