Microsoft Names Leading Education Innovators in Asia-Pacific

Microsoft Asia-Pacific recently announced its 2014-2015 class of educational innovators with 23 Microsoft Showcase Schools and Microsoft Innovative Educator 173 (MIE) experts from 10 countries in the region. Direct from countries such as Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, the APAC group form almost one-fifth of the 830 teachers and 150 schools, which are recognized as the best educational innovators from around the world.

The Showcase Schools were organized during a ceremony as part of the Education Policy Exchange, an event organized by Microsoft partners with Intel and the British Council at Stamford American International School and Education recognized by government officials, senior education leaders and development partners participated. Almost 22 percent of the MIE experts from around the world are of APAC, while about 15 percent of the Showcase Schools also come from the region around the world.

This APAC Microsoft Showcase Schools and Innovative Educator experts are leading the transformation of learning environments and provides more personalized education for students, said Beth Watson, Director of Education, Public Sector and Microsoft Asia-Pacific.We hope to continue celebrating innovation and rethink the teaching, learning and assessment so that young people in the Asia-Pacific is empowered to do more and achieve more. Microsoft Showcase Schools are selected throughout the school and the implementation of this vision for transforming their local schools for a strong vision for educational change through effective implementation of Microsoft technology.

Brunei Chung Hwa Middle School (BOD) was an example of this, for outstanding achievements in transforming the learning environment is your school to deliver personalized education for students with mobile technology and cloud, which prepare students better for success in the work place selected. As an active user Office 365 for education institution uses BSB deep to allow the functions of the software anytime and anywhere learning that will help students to communicate and think outside the box.

BSB was also the first school in Asia to integrate the use of Skype in the classroom, which with other tools such as Office 365, OneDrive, OneNote, Office mix and Yammer inspire educators to produce effective and yet creative and challenging lessons. Our school has always embraced technology at the highest level and Microsoft tools have inspired us Experience to be in our classroom, the transformation of our teaching and learning for the highest level of excellence, Lady Guik Kho Lan, director of the Chung Hwa BSB said.

Thailand Bangkok Christian College (BCC) is another example of visual innovation in the integration of Kodu programming language specially selected for game development and project Spark - a video game playmaker for Microsoft Windows-8.1 and Xbox One in his curriculum. At Bangkok Christian College, chose only the best technology education for our students to develop their creative process ideas and allow them to learn at their full potential. Kodu project sparks and integrate our curriculum, teaching to guide the use of technology tools as technology issues for our students,Watcharapong Apinyanurangsri, De Manager,Bangkok Christian College,said.