ICT - Final Reflection

Finally, it has come down to the last piece of reflection, yet its like 2 weeks later from the last AED class. Why ? well ..... cause I had to complete my other reports first ....

Throughout the SCLP creation process, fortunatly, Shiting and I did not encounter any idea crashing situation. I do not know why this is the case. Maybe its due to our personalities, cause we are both open to all sorts of ideas. hahha ... Besides, Shiting is a very efficient person and super super super artistic person. Just look at the her drawing in the video and you will realise how good she is.

Anyway, the only 2 major changes for the SCLP were the giving up the flash idea and making use of wiki to put everything together. The reason for giving up flash was that its really too time consuming. Of course, we went through a process of looking for the ways to make the video after giving up the flash and fianlly we decided on converting PPT using Windown Media Player.

I have learnt how to create a lesson. Well, some people might want to say that we should have learnt in our e learning week task, but the SCLP allowed me to look from a more complete angle. I learn to think from the perspective of the students, learn to understand that both the students and us are grown up with different backgrounds, learn that every activity does not have to use IT, but has to maximise students' self learning desire. Most importantly, I learn how to learn to use new softwares on my own. In fact, I did not realise that learning to use new softwares can be this easy. Usually, I just need to type in the things I want to do in YahooAnswer there will be answers for me and if i want to find out more on the software, I can google it or read up on the software's webpage.

Well, as for the 1st thing that will pop out from my mind for this module -------- of course that will be SCL !!!

That is like the heart and soul of this module. The very first thing I will think of when looking at a lesson plan. Just like what I have stated in the previous post, its not how sophiscated the softwares or technologies you are using, its how student center the activities are.

WEEK 11

I think our SCLP is more or less done. This is the URL you guys can take a look and give feedbacks. http://2nd-tortoiseandhare.pbwiki.com

Throughout the whole process, especially after the meeting with Prof Tan, I started to realise that a good SCLP is not about how sophiscated your SCLP is, it is more of how it can help the students to learn on their own.

In our SCLP, I believe its the video that drawn by ourselves and recorded by us using Audacity captures most people's eyes. However, I believe its the scaffolding questions and the rubrics in other parts of the wikipage that can help the students to learn on their own.

Besides, we also realise its very difficult to design a good rubrics cause we have to determine what students' levels of proficiency. This is really a big headache, cause without real life experiences, it is really hard to know what are the current level of our kids nowadays.

By the way, for those who are having headache on designing a good rubrics. This is a good resource site http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/. cause it provides some examples.

Week8

Well, this reflection is from a Chinese talk show I just watched from TVBS. Anyway, there is a "well known"(cause I did not know who he is before the show) management consultant. He talked about the difference in the western offices and asian office and 1 of his sentences really hit me. "the hierarchy in Asian is too strong, everyone just sits in the office and waits to be told what to do"

Isn't that what we are used to since we were young? His words highlighted the probelm we have in our education system and at the same time explain the reason why SCL is introduced, hoping to develop thinking individual who are able to take initiative and responsibility.

It is because SCL allows the students to have the chance to decide what they want to learn and when to learn, so they will be able to learn to take responsibilty and use their own creativity. Therefore, I need to go back to think and my my SCLP to be something that allows the students to take charge in their learning and provide the students to have the chance to develop their thinking and creative skills.

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.