Received this great news from Jin Yang in the email:
Out of the 12 submitted entries from Singapore, 3 schools have emerged winners:
First Place and Best of Category (Open)
Title of Entry: Cybercrime: Piercing the Darkness
Age Group: 19 and under
School: Victoria Junior College
Second Place
Title of Entry: The Flowerhorn Fish
Age Group: 15 and under
School: Raffles Institution
Honourable Mention
Title : Tsunami: Magnitude of Terror
Age Group: 19 and under
School : Hwa Chong Institution (In collaboration with overseas school)
Visit the ThinkQuest Oct 2004 results page to view other winning entries 🙂
Blogs in Education – “starter kit”
Received this eSN link from Natasha, which points to this “Blogs in Education” page at the end of the article. Another good attempt at providing an overview of blogs in education for starters 🙂
Back to work
“mia-ed” for 1 week, it’s back to work, go clear notes now, and more contents update later … hmm … 1058 items in bloglines, must have something informative/useful 🙂
Physics behind Roller Coaster
Darren shared this learning object with us yesterday. It allows students to experiment with 2 variables, starting speed and amount of track friction. In the “Roller Coaster Science” section, concepts on enery and friction are introduced. It’s a perfect tool for self-discovery of primary science.
Check it out 🙂
How computers make our kids stupid
This article reported the situation that is on-going in Toronto, Canada. Computers and the internet are found (some findings by the children themselves) to have the following effects:
1. distract kids from homework
2. encourage superficial and uncritical thinking
3. lead to compulsive behaviour
4. “MMORPGs” (massive multi-player online role-playing games) are highly addictive and a lot of people have screwed up their lives playing them”
5. things kids read and see online invade their imagination
6. whizzes through homework in half an hour, and then starts surfing, gaming and chatting with friends on MSN until 1 a.m.
7. “I procrastinate a lot more than before and everybody’s marks suffer to some degree if they spend as much time as (I did online).”
How we are going to educate our children to control this ‘beast’ and not the other way round really needs serious pondering … come to think of it, I wouldnt be surprised if some adults are also ‘suffering’ from some of the above symptoms … ?????