Week 8

Cloud Computing.

Week 7

Absent

Week 6

On the class for week 6, our topic is '21st Century Teaching'. Matched with the fellow topic, we 'played' Second Life which is a virtual life for education world. I was quite impressed on how education nowadays can be achieved in varity of ways , with a great help of technology. Second life as for me is a really interesting method to use in order to atttract students to study, read notes, explore more knowledge as well as discussing with other students . At the same time when they can achieve amazing informations, they also can have fun , with the beautifu graphics of Second Life where each students can create an account and show their personalties by the appearance of them virtually potrayed.

After utilizing the great world of Second Life, now that we get some ideas on the future education, we discussed on how far Second Life can actually been improved to be a huge benefit on education world. The class came out with consensus that history can be learnt practically when Second Life can be reannact and used to give more impact on students when the whole surrouding is being reenact to the current history topic. For example, when a history class is learning about egypt, Seconf Life can be modified to arabian settings as well as all the people there wearing the arabian style clothes. Personally, I think that would be a great idea especially for small children where their imagination are highly powerful and can give them huge advantage. Other than history, language can also been taught more interesting using second Life by labeling the things in surrounding in different languages. It is believed that graphics can help people memorize better. 

Similar to that, biology also can be learn by for instant, labeling the fish. Geography can also been greatly and effectively taught.  In brief, I think this is a great invention and a great modern educational tool to use by educators.

Week 5

More and more interesting technology tools are being exposed to us ! I'm glad I joined this module. Today the class is very interesting. We did our very own account in Secondlife.com . It is an educational website where lecturers and fellow classmates and so does the rest of institutional mates can communicate in a simulation world online while being surrounded by educational surroundings.



The virtual world graphics are very attractive and nicely done. Besides infographs, Secondlife is also an educational tool that helps student to be more attracted to learning. Instead of just being in the class, facing either textbook or whiteboards, students can now learn greatly with Secondlife. In Secondlife, lectures can post notes and studying materials. This is more convenient as students can open their notes anywhere they are with their gadgets. In brief, it suits the modern and and fully technology world better !

However, there is always advantage and disadvantage on an issue. With the cool virtual world that allows everyone to create an account and customize their own people, the disadvantage is students especially girls might spend more of their time customizing and focusing on the beauty and fashion of their sims rather than focusing on the main objective which is to LEARN.

Nevertheless, I believe if the students are being educate and constantly reminded on the main purpose of this educational tool, the problem can be dissolved.

Week 4

in EduTech class week 4, Mr Syukri exposed to us more technology tools that can be used as teaching materials. One of the tool that are being highlighted is 'Infographic'.




There are broader explanation about infographs. Infographs is educating people using both texts and images in which it is believe to be more attractive . This is because, yonger generations are born as digital natives therefore they are more likely to been more attracted to graphics . In conclusion, infographic is a modern educational tool that can be use as a teaching material.

Personally, I believe it is very important to keep our teaching materials as educators , up to date and trendy so that the youngsters are more probably to get the knowledge we intended to pass on :)

3rd Week EduTech Class

Mr Syukri explained clearly on how to do our Eportfolio. Then, we discussed all the 4 main issues that are brought up as technology becomes part of our lives. The issues are from social, educational, cultural and legal. Me and my fellow grouo member, Bi Yun presented about social aspect which makes me even clearer about the particular issue.

Other than that, we also were exposed to the invention iof 'Flip Classroom' . Basically flip Classroom is when the lecturers and explanation are in video forms which the students would watch at home . In school, they were meant to do classworks and ask teachers questions. Khan Academy is an example of a successful institution that uses 'Flip Classroom' as teaching method.

2nd Week EduTech Class

For the 2nd time in this particular module, I already have a clearer vision on what this class are about. Technology, technology, technology. In this class though, we learn the history of the invention of the computer as well as internet. Premicro computer era, micro computer era, internet era and ubiquitous access. I feel like I've learn more about technology and the development when we go into the history.

1st Week EduTech Class

In the beginning, I was still wondering what Education and Technology offers. However on the very first class, Mr Syuk had well-explained it to us about the module. The class becomes more interesting for me as I assumed, this class involves a lot of technologies uses. I love technology and i prefer using technology and modern gadgets rather than being traditional.

In the class, we were told to discuss on how do we think our future class will be like as in what do we expect and prefer as our teaching methods. Individually, I prefer fully technology used in which students would also write their essays using laptops instead of a paper and a pen. However, our group come into consensus that, handwriting are important as well as it helps teachers to know the students' varieties off personalities based on their writing . Some also argues that ideas comes better when we write than type. As the saying from one of our classmate spoke was" people who write tend to be more brilliant ".

In brief, in the first class, we asked ourselves on how far can we use technology in our teachings.

Lol

Dear Maryam, Rohila, Rohia and Syifaa.

I'm soo NOT going to continue writing on the blog.

I'm a secretive person and I dont wanna write my life in public :)

thanks. bubuyy.