15th week

I heard about blogging for the very first time from my sister who is very keen of novels. She had her own blog about novel on the net. But at that point of time, I did not bother as I have no interest in it yet. But, as I entered this class, the first assignment that was set up was to have our own blog. So, by hook or by crook, I have to have one and from that I learn to keep on updating the blog.

By blogging , I realized that I could actually share my thoughts, opinion as well as discussed the problems that I have encountered throughout the semester. I could also read the thoughts of other person on certain things. For me this is very good in the sense that we were actually helping each other as we always knew that nobody could live on their own without others in this world. Apart from that, by reading others blog, I could also improved on my language skills by enriching the vocabularies that I had so far as well as picking up on the new phrases or sentence structures. I admit that I am still learning all this as I believed there that there is no full stop in learning. Hehe, talking about what I do not like about blogging, sometimes I was lazy to update my blog and that was where the hatred came in.

I was wondering what is it that I like about this course at first... But as I turned up for this class, everything has change. It includes the way I think about the resources. These are the aspects that I think I have developed to a certain extent.

In terms of communication, I think I mixed around with others better as we were required to work in groups. Before this working with someone that I am not familiar with is not my favour. But now, I can mingle around better and I find it is quite interesting to work with different people each times. It makes me grow matured as I mingled with different people with different attitudes.

Critical thinking and problem solving? Off course…in order to complete the given assignments, we really have to crack our head to think critically in order to come up with a brilliant idea. I could sense that I experienced more headache this semester most probably due to the amount of critical thinking that I’ve done. haha…Problem solving is another one. I always experienced problem during the completion of the assignments. Each time I faced problem, I have to use different kind of strategies in solving the problems. Off course, friends around helped me a lot. I think all of these have really developed me to be a better problem solver.

Leadership? Hehe, nothing much to say about this. Frankly speaking, I don’t like to be a leader…hahaha..But after all, I have to be a leader too one day in the future. Leader=Father, husband and also a teacher.

The most important thing is I begin to be responsible and concern more about my study. Here comes the ethics and values. Right now, I became a better person in the aspect of organizing my time as well as to put priority on my duty. After all, that’s what a student should be.

I do believe that being a teacher is also a life long learning. There will never be full stop for it. Sometimes, teacher too can learn from their pupils. I always believe in the saying, learning is never ending….

In short, I believe that, theres still a lot for me to explore and to learn. With just the current knowledge that I have now is not enough. I really need more and more. I think I’ve clearly described myself here. That’s where I pen off.

14th class

There is nothing much I could write here as in this fourteenth class, we had the final test where we were required to answer four essays questions. There was one question of theory and the others were questions on the applications. We were exposed to the importance of knowing how to apply the knowledge we had learnt before but this apparently what I am lacking of.

I had difficulties in answering the questions as I admitted that I lacked the skills of application. Besides that, some of the questions asked were things that we haven’t learnt in the class. I was trying very hard to answer the questions. Finally, I managed to finish up answering the questions within the given time. Everyone was very anxious about the test as I have found out that, most of us felt the same way about the test questions, they are tough.

All in all, I would say that this test really testing us to the vertical limit and only miracle can be the savior of the day.

Childrens software

The advancement of technology in computer field today has created a vast array of children software that is available in the market. It has somehow revolutionized the ways of how education could be thought in school. As the world keep on globalizing, we could see that we could no longer depend solely on the traditional way of teaching and learning using chalk and talk. We have to integrate something new such as this into our current education.

In this week class, we were introduced to children’s software such as Freddie Fish and etc. This kind of software contains simple and easy games that are able to promote improvement in the learning of English language in particular. With the use of software in the teaching and learning in the classroom, it will help pupils to develop creative and critical thinking skills as well as skill in problem solving. Besides that, pupils will also be able to learn the language while at the same time they enjoyed playing games. This provides a very meaningful experience to the pupils which in turn will make the memory stick and lasted in their mind.

Even though these kinds of software were already out in market, but still I found out that it was not fully utilized by the teachers in school. Only a little number of teachers makes use this creation of technology in their classroom. This might be due to the problem such as lack of teachers’ competency in IT, lack of facilities in school, and also the time constraint.

In short, technology keeps on changing rapidly as the world keeps on globalizing unstoppably. So, again it depends on the teachers of how they are going to make full use of it to enhance their teaching and learning to the maximum.