Leon Lam

Leon Lam

Leon is a traveller, teacher, and man of many interests. He's currently in China and loves hotels, food, movies, and the occasional manga. His greatest struggle is his inability to just do one thing.
Oct
17
Increasing Self-Education in Students

Increasing Self-Education in Students

I believe that all education after grade school, minus special education, is self-education. In some sense, whatever the student learns, they must have been willing to learn it.
2 min read
Oct
15
Ideating a Passion Pathways Program

Ideating a Passion Pathways Program

This post aims to provide a framework for the effective implementation of a passion pathways program for senior high school students. The justification behind creating this program is threefold:
3 min read
Oct
14
Willfully Blind

Willfully Blind

But what about the times when the cold air from the fridge is noticeably spreading throughout the room, and you're beginning to break a sweat because you really can't find it?
1 min read
Sep
10
Big Data

Big Data in Education

How big is big data to education? Along with its younger siblings—data mining, data visualization, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and learning analytics—big data is one of the most influential frontiers in education.
2 min read
Sep
10
Phone taking a video

Video is Primary

Videos are presented as a way for one to many communication, but reality is that most people watch videos alone – meaning video is actually one-to-one communication...
1 min read
Sep
10
User Experience Design

Experience Design in Education

It's always been about experience design. Not optics or outside perception, not just scores and university acceptance numbers, not the percentage of course completion, not what the 'parent' or 'institution' thinks is best, but experience.
1 min read