criteria 4 blog...

I have done my self-assessment and I feel I should get 18 out of 20. here are my reasons, in term of originality, everything in there are 100% my own writing, no cut and paste… i think blog is all about expressing our thought, view using our own words and not simply taking from others. Then, I wrote without fear and as honest I can be on certain things, I don’t want this to be an academic writing. Yup!! This is an assignment but surely prof. doesn’t want a long essay. I wrote whatever I think and the blog is the result. However, I don’t think that design should be taken as one of the criteria because if I feel blog is about the writing not a competition to find who have the most beautiful design… so, it must be assessing based on the content of the blog, nothing else matter…. That my view…

wiki??? or wacky???

yup!! it is a wacky thing... i am just going to express my feeling on wiki!! i hate it!! it just like a beta version, but who care... we must learn to use it... is this tool really will enhance learning?? honestly, i am not planning to use it in the future... yup! we have seen excellant website like wikipedia that use this wiki thing and it is great... i admit it it is agreat things when you know how to use it but i still can comprehend the concept of wiki... it is like a portal where we will add information and other people can edit it freely... it sound weird because we cant control the content, nway, that enough for wiki...

erm.. our group progress on the wiki assignment has been really slow... we dont have the initiative to do it.. maybe because lack of direction, dont know what and how we going to approach it... we have a lot of infromation but it is a different thing to digest analyze it... i wilerl do my best,, this is surely a new method... arghhh... looking at the monitor almost 24/7!!! the next two weeks will be the most gruelling time for us.. hope i will survive.....

should curricullum drive the technology or vice-versa??

This is an interesting question…. My answer would be technology should drive the curriculum. Why? Because I feel we must have a curriculum that will fully utilize the use of technology in classroom. We can discover new technology that can allow us to improve the environment in school. The government is training our teacher to become tech-savvy. However, are they really benefiting from the training?? I don’t thing so!! This happen because I feel our curriculum doesn’t give room for teacher to adopt technology to the maximum level. Do we need curriculum that is tailored specifically that allow teacher to create a technologically-advanced learning. For instance is the smartboard, we can use it efficiently in classroom because obviously in my view it is an excellent tool albeit the cost is high. During my school experience programme, I went to an urban school situated in the middle of city. The school have an excellent computer lab with broadband connection, however, teachers there told me that it is seldom used because they afraid that students might ‘destroy’ the computers!! How we can inculcate the use of technology in students if we do not allow them to experience the benefit of using computer? Once again, the equipment is there but there is weakness in the implementation process… so, I feel MOE or curriculum board must bear in mind technology when they are going to draft a new curriculum….

intelligence vs creativity

Ok… I feel intelligence and creativity are two different things…. If you are creative of course you are intelligence. However if you have high IQ it doesn’t mean that you have high creativity… I think I am intelligence but I doubt I have creativity… I am the kind of person that thinks inside the box, doing things as majority of use do and will not come out with radical idea or things that will excite people… I am not a conservative guy but I admit that I lack of creativity. Can we learn to be creative or improve our creativity?? Or is it some people are creative than other.. Is it an innate characteristic?? All of us are creative. The difference is the degree of our creativity. How far we are willing to explore or think... is there a way to improve my creativity?? If anyone can help me improve my creativity, reward is waiting for you…