My thoughts…..

Ahhh…we can’t save the assignment into the CD. What to do now? Whylah I don’t have my own CD burner…? This was what actually happened at the beginning of the day’s lesson …sorry but I have to confess that I was not concentrating at first… Luckily we had help... Thanks to that sweet person… So once it was settle, I turned from the computer to the lecturer… She was actually throwing fishes around the class… I was lost and confused. “What is going on with Dr. Raja Maznah? Is this some kind of self-expression? Hmmm… When the lecturer introduced the day’s topic – “Fish Philosophy”, I was wondering – What has fish philosophy got to do with a teacher? But before that, I feel that the lesson was different. It’s not everyday that fishes get throw around in a class…(lucky they were just toys). It was fun. But sad to say that only after being prompted by Dr. we started to throw the fishes around the class. I guess we are losing the child in us, that’s sad… maybe because we are so used to listenin...

Ahhh…. there is so much to think about when doing assignment. The colour of the font used, the placement and etc. Well, after listening to the comments and the rational behind it – it does sound reasonable. Well, falling back to theory, everything we do as teacher does affect the pupils’ understanding of the lesson. Maybe the holidays made me forget it. So far I’m still working on the assignment, hopefully it turns out to be good. For this week’s topic – “Technology can support a vision but it cannot be the vision”, I feel that that this topic is a question that most teacher face when dealing with technology. I feel that this statement tell us that technology is a tool that we teacher can use to enhance our teaching but it is not what our aims are. Our aim in to educated pupils and to do so we use the help of technology. Like the example, that was given in class where the teacher uses technology to capture pupils’ interest. When I was teaching as a part time teacher in a secon...

Hello This week we were given the time to do our assignment. In my case, I was looking through the examples that we saved the previous week. It’s really amazing, what this IWB can do. My group member and I divided the work. Each of us is to prepare one material. I’m to prepare an English material. Well I’m still working with my idea. I am planning to integrate “Gradually diminishing control”. This principle has more to do with writing. Hmmm I’m still working on it. Hopefully by tonight I’ll have a better idea .

Hello Ok first I would like to apologise that it took me more than a week to write this week’s blog. To tell everyone the truth, this whole UM thingy is a cultural shocked. I just am having difficulties keeping up with the workload. So without wasting more time let me write down what I have to say about Digital Citizen vs. Digital Immigrants. I was not very clear with the two terms so I went on net to clarify my ideas. While doing so I come across this article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky. {Those interested to read it, plz visit http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf }. It a very interesting article and moreover it helps us understand the two terms based on education aspect. In the article, Prensky makes it clearly what the two terms mean. {But, in the article digital citizen is substituted with digital natives}. Digital natives: “Today’s students … represent the first generations to grow up wi...