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GLOBE

One of the learning methods which I dreaded the most is memorising facts and I am pretty sure children of today might feel the same as well. With just mastering skill of memorising facts does not mean the children can excel outside of the school as they do in examination where memorising facts is all. The point is children need to be equipped with the skill of applying what they have learned in school with the real-world contexts. The computer-based program that provides opportunity for the children to connect what they are learning with the real-world context is “Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program”. This program pioneered by Vice President Al Gore, 1992 allows children to learn to apply scientific concepts in analyzing real environmental problems.It works this way:teachers and children collect data for use by scientists, and the scientists provide mentoring to the teachers and the children about how to apply scientific concepts in analyzing real environmental problems. This program would not just adding fun to learning but educating as well. Children will become more interested as they love to experience things first hand and in fact this program will do fair in instilling the sense of responsibility.

Audio Editing...

I may not be a sound engineer..but I can edit song! This is totally new to me;learning how to edit song, combining two songs into one. It's pretty cool..I used Audacity. It's a bit difficult at first but the more time I spent on it I discovered a lot more..thanks to Mdm Foziah...

Click on this link and enjoy!

http://rapidshare.com/files/136050623/Martin_Luther_ft_Josh_Groban-I_Have_a_Dream.mp3.html

Think....

Existence of technology and the process of imparting it into the classroom learning are both I believe a major talk of today. Gone are the days of chalk and talk as I unquote from the article in one of so many Educational magazines which I 'accidentally' found in my dad's library(credit to my dad..hehe) ‘…as well as texts and desks, predominate now as they did then’ brings about the idea of a change which children of today has the chance to experience and should be grateful of considering what their folks had had in the past. I agree with the article when it states it is the ‘societal demands’ on what children learn and the ‘explosion of knowledge’ that have been increasing throughout the years that they act as a wake up call for the researches and not to forget, the educators to embark on a journey of discovering technology and its full potential to be infused in children’s learning in any ways at whatever cost to keep up with those ‘societal demands’ and the ‘explosion of knowledge’ I must say that it heightens argument when some say the people of the good old days still manage to stand up high with their achievements with just ‘chalk and talk’ , ‘texts and desks’ ; traditional way of teaching and learning without the infusion of today’s technology which is believed to be costly. To those people, I prefer to put it this way: back then technology is something we are too far away from but not today. Technology is man’s creation; our own creation. So we have the opportunity to use it to the fullest, to every achievable possibilities we might think of and to our betterment which can prolong for the next generations to come rather than use it for other purposes.

Children are susceptible to colourful pictures..They are very visual..Learning can be more fun if teachers can integrate technology in the classroom...Photo editing is indeed a technology we can never put aside because the benefits it brings know no boundaries! Be imaginative teachers! Manipulate any pictures...sky is the limit..Children can also try it out once the teachers have showed the the way of doing it..Put a poem and put any pictures around it to represents what is in the poem..children may not understand the whole poem but with pictures surely they can get if not much a little bit of an idea what the poem is all about..because as aforementioned children are visual type of learners..

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