saw these 2 pics in my student’s post, so ‘stole’ it to fill this long negelected storeroom 🙂
“You always say you know you know you know you know, but in actual fact, YOU DON’T.”
and i thought this comment is very meaningful. aren’t we all guilty of being so from time to time. “knowing” is so very qualitative isnt it :O
Computer programming …
was reading /. post on “How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course?” and these 2 websites appeared in the comments:
- Scratch by MIT
- Computer Science Unplugged by University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand
the chance of me teaching programming is probably next to zero, but thought it’ll be good to store these 2 interesting links in the storeroom. who knows when it’ll come in useful 😉
On educational gaming
Have neglected this storeroom and my choked up bloglines feeds for quite some time. Came upon two posts by Christopher D. Sessums@eduspaces.net. One post was him brainstorming on possible exams questions for his summer “Introduction to Ed Tech Course” (with many excellently practical questions), qn 10 was on “Serious Gaming” which used Neuromatrix, a new educational video game designed to teach neuroscience to 9-15 children. In his other post on a brief look of video/computer games, there’s a comprehensive review of Dodlinger’s (2007) literature review on elements that promoted learning.
As a gamer myself for over 15 years (until recent shifting of priorities to work n family), I would definitely love to engage students in games and learning CL as they play the games. Have not seen ed. games like Neuromatrix in Chinese yet. When will such games materialise, next 10 yrs perhaps? And in the meantime, any chance of learning CL while engaging in non-CL games? *hmm*
School systems compared, US vs. Singapore vs. China
the US American system (Grade K-12):
Preschool 3-4 yrs old
Kindergarten (Grade K, 5 yrs old, most of the time taken at the local elementary school)
Elementary school (Grade 1-5, 6-11 yrs old)
Middle school (Grade 6-8, 12-14 yrs old)
High school (Grade 9-12, 15-18 yrs old)
(Note: compiled based on info from Yahoo! Answers)
the typical Singapore system:
Preschool 3-4 yrs old
Kindergarten (5-6 yrs old, equiv. Grade K-1)
Primary school (7-12 yrs old, equiv Grade 2-7)
Secondary school (13-16 yrs old, equiv Grade 8-11)
Junior college (17-18 yrs old, equiv Grade 12-13)
the China system:
Preschool 3-4 yrs old
Kindergarten (5-6 yrs old, equiv. Grade K-1)
Elementary school (7-12 yrs old, equiv Grade 2-7)
Middle school (13-15 yrs old, equiv Grade 8-10)
High school (16-18 yrs old, equiv Grade 11-13)
(Note: to be confirmed :P)
is your handphone and/or laptop LYING to you?
saw this post on /. which led to this article “Your laptop is lying to you” which writes about the indicators we see in our devices are actually manipulating us psychologically. partly agree with the laptop case (my Intel laptop provides ‘time remaining’ but my AMD laptop doesnt), and i believe the handphone case would hit most of us. check it out and see if your devices lied to you too 😉