Week 6

Again, I am late with this post again.

However, I do have something really important that I MUST share here. As we went through lots of online learning resources by MOE in the last week's lesson.

I was pretty "surprised" with the Chinese online resources provided there. Taking eVideos and eduMall as examples. It is because, they are mostly not up to date. Well, of course I am not saying old stuffs are not good. It can only tell something which is ----- not many people are using the online sources. It really makes me start to wonder how come people do not want to make use of the sources that are free to them? They are not told there is such a place?

The other issue that catch my attention is the Happy Town website. Firstly, I have to agree that it is really a great idea to integrate blogging with students' compositions. However, as I read through the posts by students, I realised that all these posts were mostly from few certain schools in Singapore only. Where are the rest of the schools? Isn't it part of the MP to integrate ICT into students' learning? Besides, I believe the concept of this website is pretty student centered


All these allow me to realise that it is still up to people to make this ICT integrate SCL work. If we are not told about the resources and we are not willing to try out the new ways, a plan can only be a plan. It can never put into practice.

Replies !!!

Hi all

Tks for all the comments.

To Pam ~~~

I am amazed by you when I saw your super spuer comprehensive reflection
sorry, i didnt comment on that cause its really tat details tat i dunno wat to comment. (actually, i its because i find it troublesome to login to friendster to comment) hahha....

To Xiao Shan and kUgApRiYa

Despite the fact that SA do has its flaws, i still think its useful as it do create awareness in us that not to "copy and past" or at least rephase it.
If not, at least we will start to look for book reference which is more credible rather than lazily sit in front laptop or PC just to type in some keywords at http://www.google.com/
Not saying online source not good, just ... well ... depends on the website .. some of them are less reliable
As for the improvment, of course I hope its database can be increased (hmm ... I am not sure if it is a good thing to enlarge its database size)
Secondly, I hope it can recognise people's effort of doing time consuming citation, meaning if people do cite the source properly then it should not consider that as a match, cause I have already self declared its not my own idea !!!

Week 5 - Safe Assignment

To be honest, Safe Assignment is really a easy software to use, all you do is just "browse" select the file, upload and wait for around 10min before coming back for the results and report. It is a much easier way for the teachers to check how much the students have copied and at the same time allow the students the chance to judge themselves.


However, I do find out some bugs or disadvantages of this software. As this is already my second time using this, so I tried to delete all my reference and uploaded my file. Even though I get 33% match in the end, those matches are from the questions and lesson plan templete. This shows that it does not matter if I do reference or not as long the system does not find any match, it will not count it in.


Another finding is that, it seemed to be able to detect the parts that can match with websites. It is because that I did use some journals and books references but none of them come out in the match even I have deleted the citations in my essay.

According to my findings, I can say that this software is not really that perfect afterall, there still room for improvement. Unless my rephasing technique has already reached the superior level. hahaha

Of course there is no software that is perfect, afterall it is just a tool to help us to save time and effort.

Besides, I do not think that having a same match will mean plagiarism. It really depends on each invidual case because I might have used the ideas from my own blog and thus come out as a match, so does that mean I plagiaris ?? Even there is a match with other people's blogs, cannot it be possible that 2 of us are thinking the same thing? Therefore, I think other than looking at the matching percentages, teachers also have to look at what are the sentences that having the match because some of them are really common ideas.

WEEK 4

Think its abit late to blog for this week's reflection.(think I should say this is the last week's blog)

What took me such a long time to blog the reflection for week 4? Well, I feel sort of lost here.

All along, I thought I know what SCL is. BUT !!! As the time to complete the assigment 1, I start to have difficulties in putting everything I know into the assigment. I am not confident that what I have believed in are correct and I am not sure how to put what I have known into the assigment.

Well, I have known that SCL is actually learner centered learning where teachers must design the lessons from the students' perspectives. They no longer deliver, instead they guide. This base on my readings come from constructivism as everyone learns differently. Thus, I think its somehow relates to cognitive learning. Besides, I think it also helps to develop crtical and creative thinking skills. These 2 skills are 2 of the most important skills that educators nowadays hope to pass to our future generations.

They all looked somehow related, BUT somehow I just cannot put them together. Is there really a sequence of which theory or concept come out earlier than others or they are actually the same things? The reason why there are different names is because we look at it from different angles eg, teacher's view, researcher's view etc ... or .. maybe I am just confusing myself.

Well, hopefully, I can start to figure this thing out soon, cause AED 104 is not the only module that has assigment during the e-learning week.