MINGGU TEKNOLOGI
& tons of videos to share! ^_^
Reading the Horizon Report was a pleasure. I'm excited about the technological possibilities and potentials that are coming our way. I was surprise that the introduction of the flexible screen technology by Samsung is just around the corner. Reminds me of the videos I always share with my students during class. And they luv this kind of video!
The Pranav Mistry TED talk I too showed my students. But I stop showing after iphone2 came out... But in the earlier stage, my students liked it too and were very excited with the ideas.
There has been lots of development and interest in augmented reality. And when combined with mobile technology, I think a whole new frontier to our lifestyle, the way we do things, get things done, and definitely the way we teach & learn!
Augmented reality & mobile technology combo
Here's a video on augmented reality map that makes google map very outdated.
Actually I'm more interested in the augmented reality (combine with gesture technology), especially the one shown in the Iron man movie (Iron Man augmented reality table). Will eagerly anticipate that one day, our science labs & even classroom are equipped with these augmented reality table.
Probably the one that I'm looking forward most of all is Learning analytics. Here's an excerpt just in case you have not read that part:
...The goal of learning analytics is to enable teachers and schools to tailor educational opportunities to each student’s level of need and ability... The larger promise of learning analytics, however, is that when correctly applied and interpreted, it will enable faculty to more precisely identify student learning needs and tailor instruction appropriately. This has implications not simply for individual student performance, but in how educators perceive teaching, learning, and assessment. By offering information in real time, learning analytics can support immediate alterations, suggesting a model of curriculum that is more fluid and open to change...
Next was reading the Malaysian Smart School Roadmap: 2005-2020, which was really an inspiring (initially) and disheartening (most of the part) experience. Inspiring because felt grateful that Malaysia does have people who are ambitious and very far-sighted. Disheartening because... you should know... if you are a Malaysian.
Among the components in Smart School, the Teaching-Learning process is the first mentioned:
...are reinvented to help students learn more effectively and efficiently. The Smart School enable students to practice self-accessed and self-directed learning, at their own learning pace...
...management and administration of the Smart School ... is computerised...
According to the Roadmap, we teachers are supposed to create a teaching-learning environment that can provide the following:
- Education, not in the sense of acquiring “knowledge for knowledge sake” but rather to respect knowledge and to have an awareness of the uses knowledge can have for personal and societal gain.
- Teaching-learning that engages and drives students to want to know more.
- Education not for the sake of passing examinations and scoring excellent grades but one that will help the child meet challenges effectively. (pg 25)
Frankly, I felt I'm terrible at delivering the above. These are the ultimate education aspiration. But I don't find myself being trained to do that... Is there training to train teachers to deliver the above?
Being a teacher since 2007, I never knew that I was supposed to teach in a Smart School by 2010...
...Wave 3: Making all schools smart...
By 2010, Malaysia is expected to have 10,000 smart schools...
...In the original Implementation Plan, the Ministry of Education would use the findings of the Pilot Project to prepare a Master Plan to ensure that all schools in the country become smart schools in stages, by the year 2010...
It's end of 2011 now, the actual figure of the supposingly 'Smart School'?
What happened to the pilot test schools?
It's mentioned that ICT-enabled teaching of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) was supposed to be an enhancement efforts by various parties to expand the role of ICT in Malaysian schools. Did Malaysia just click the 'undo' button??
Honestly, as a teacher who is trying to embrace technology in T&L, I find myself very much alone on this mission... But I'll like to emphasise that studying MIT did make me feel less lonely in this sense. =)
