Week 10- end of PE, end of the course

I've ended my EDC3100 professional experience! It was a 15 days being at the site and I met new people. The experience was amazing! I am really thankful for my site coordinator and my mentor for being supportive of me.

Although the school do not have digital technologies particularly for the students, my mentor has allowed me to use my personal digital tools with the students. Both my mentor and site coordinator was excited to see me integrate ICT into lessons. The school do not practice integrating ICT into lessons however they supported me to do so for my professional experience.

I observed my mentor teaching, took over the class when my mentor had an emergency and even proceed a lesson plan prepared by my mentor.

For the final week (week 3 of professional experience), there are various things that I had to be aware of. One of it is to get my mentor to mark me a Pass/ Fail via InPlace using her account. It was a hassle as my mentor had some issues with her account. I was really nervous when things did not go smoothly as I had planned in my mind. However, we managed to pull it of.

This table was the one that helped me to keep track of the feedbacks that I need to get.

I feel some amount of relieve that professional is over. I also do feel happy to read Elise's post on finishing her professional experience!

A little bit more to go till the due date!

Week 8- Digital citizenship's second blog post

Referring to this page, this is my second post in regard to safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT. Re-reading my first blog post on this topic, I shall answer some questions as required here.

Firstly, there are no written policies regarding ICT at my PE site. The mentor just verbally told me the do's and don't of using ICT amongst the students.

The ICT skills that the learners need to have are such as unlocking the digital tool's pass code, opening app, switching on and off the computer and using the keyboard.

It'd be good if changes are made before the PE as there are room for adjustment.

Week 10- Modelling grade

The due date is near! As much as I am trying to finish my assignments well, I am also modelling my grade and want to see how much left to pass EDC3100. Below is the model of my likely result for EDC3100.

I would get an A if I scored 40 marks for assignment 3.
I would get C grade if I scored 20 marks for assignment 3.
I would get F grade if I scored 0 mark for assignment 3. I will do my assignment well to pass this course.
Based on my capability and my marks so far, I may get B grade for this course. I want this to happen, god willing.

Assignment 3 consists part A, part B, part C and part D. Below are my assumption of marks for those parts.

Part A: 5 marks
Part B: 7 marks
Part C: 5 marks
Part D: 12 marks

According to the above, I am assuming I would get 29/40 for assignment 3, god willing. I shall now ensure I cover all learning paths. Got to complete them and see all the  boxes are ticked!

Week 10- Reflection

What is the importance of reflection? Yes! I groaned when I see a task asking me to reflect. Reading this, I think reflections on a lesson helps teachers to improve the quality of a lesson.

As a teacher myself, I don't do thorough reflection after my lessons (this as in when I am not during a Professional Experience). Just thoughts in my mind either the lesson was delivered smoothly or was not. Tamdubois had a similar experience like mine which she was reflecting little things on her own.

When I am doing the student's report, noting down their inability to grasp a concept, I would just think on how can I make that student understand. I still don't reflect on the lesson I conducted.

The benefits of reflective teaching is that we get to think about the student's input. By answering some questions during reflection, we (teachers) will be able to see if the lesson objective is met. The lesson objective can also be a guide when doing reflection on a lesson.
Other than that, reflecting after a lesson helps teachers to identify the unwanted things that were supposed to happen. For instance, having not enough material can take up the student's waiting time which could lead to restlessness amongst them. Restlessness amongst them may be the cause of their short attention span.
As Rhalmi (2011) stated that reflective teaching enable teachers to discover other ways of teaching and trying it out with their students. This is a great opportunity for teacher's development.

The down side of reflective teaching would be for the teachers. It takes time to reflect on lesson that we teach. Not forgetting the amount of works that we need to check!

I would like to practice making reflections after my lessons. I think it can guide me to become more explorative in my teaching skills.




Reference:
Rhalmi, M. (2011). Reflective teaching and action search. Retrieved October 27, 2016, from http://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/reflective-teaching-and-action-research/

IWB and Literature

This page initiated me to analyse a literature titled Honeymoon with IWBs: A qualitative insight in primary students' views on instruction with interactive whiteboard.

Referring to table 1, the thing about IWB that students amongst the 4th graders to the 8th graders like the most is its practicality and economically use. It is easier for the students to use the IWB as they are more comfortable using a pen that they don't have to use pressure to write. Using a chalk needs them to grip tightly to be able to write. Using the pen on an IWB will also avoid them from getting dust onto them when writing on a whiteboard. According to the 8th graders, the IWB enable them to reverse pages back to the page that they need to refer to.

Referring to table 2, the thing students like the least is the technical issues that occurs when they are using IWB. It distracts them as they were focusing in the lesson. Issues such as power cut, viruses and the unsmooth media played on IWB.

On table 3, it is said that the instructions on IWB enhanced student's learning because of its interesting display and presentation. Students from 6th to 8th grade said the colours on screen captured their attention compared to the traditional whiteboard. Media presentation such as the video enable students to grasp understanding of abstract concepts.

IWB can most effectively be use as a supplement to student's learning. Ms. Milne listed down some techniques of IWB.
For my professional experience, the context uses Montessori Approach for teaching and learning. This way, IWB will definitely come second as a supplementary to a lesson.

Reference:
Sad, S.N., Ozhan, U. (2012). Honeymoon with IWBs: A qualitative insight in primary students' views on instruction with interactive whiteboard (pp. 1184-1191). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.usq.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0360131512001315
 

CLEM and IWB

IWB is an interactive whiteboard which is used in classes for teacher's teaching and student's learning. IWB is commonly seen in an Australian classroom however is very rare to see IWB in my country.

I have once observed a teacher working with an IWB in a school I used to work in. At that time, I was the teacher's assistant for the 6 years old class. I did not see how she operated it but I saw how students was interactively taking part during the lesson.

Relating to CLEM's explanation of model, there are various software's that can be used via the IWB. The choice of software matters to student's learning.

Maher, Phelps, Urane, Lee (2012) said that IWB with a software is like a traditional whiteboard but it comes with other abilities to save, edit and record. These allows active participation from students to produce their work and widely share it with the others.

When I get the chance to use an IWB I will ensure that I choose the right software that will benefit students the most.


Reference:

Maher, D. Phelps, R. Urane, N. Lee, M. (2012) Primary school teachers' use of digital resources with interactive whiteboards: The Australian context. Retrieved from https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/888/166

Digital technologies and CLEM

There are various digital technologies that can be used for teaching and learning. The digital technologies each functions differently and I may not know how to use them all.

However, CLEM the acronym can help teachers to know how to use digital technologies to amplify and transform student's learning.

CLEM is the acronym for community, literature, examples and model.

Community
People coming together sharing their experience using a particular digital technology. We can seek help and ask other people to help us operate a tool.

Literature
There are research done about certain digital technologies on its usage. Academic literature are done and shared so other people can refer to. Their research paper can be a source of us teachers to know pros and cons.

Examples
I myself sometimes operate a digital technology via examples. Either I observe other people operating it or I go online to read steps on how to operate it. I also like to go on YouTube to learn how to work out a digital technology that I am not familiar with.

Model
Get to know the digital technology via the model itself. Go through the manual and learn to operate the technology.

Above are my write up on what I understand of CLEM.

Digital citizenship- usage of technology

How much technology do we need? How long is enough for young children engaging with digital technologies? I was reading an article revealing about the amount of screen time children are having. It does not sound too good to know how much time children spend on screen. Various issues can happen to the children and if it gets worst, it may affect their future.

I witnessed myself that there are children are having a little too much of screen time. They can go on and on playing games and watching videos for hours if not stopped by the parents. To some extend, there are children who gets really upset when they are advised to stop playing their digital tablets. The habit of over using technology makes them loose control of their emotions.

I strongly believe that providing technology with limits is the best for our children. Stopping them altogether from using technology to protect them from harm may just be otherwise. It might lower their self-confidence when socializing with friends who uses technology.

This is what we would like for every digital technology users. I believe that to infuse these characteristics, we need to start early with our young ones. Limiting children's screen time is a basis way of teaching them a sense of self-control with technology. When they are used to this discipline, we can then in calculate responsibility when using digital technology. Jary (2016) stated that more screen time creates more issues and will effect children's development.

To those children I can be control of, I will definitely control their screen time. I will also like to expose them to become a good digital citizen.

Reference:
Jary, S. (2016). How much screen time is healthy for children? Expert tips on screen safety, education, mental development and sleep. Retrieved from http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/feature/digital-home/how-much-screen-time-is-healthy-for-children-benefits-3520917/

 

Digital citizenship- a positive story

I read through the scary stories and it was horrifying to know. I shall just share with you the positive things that happened in a digital world. Martha's story shed light of how a digital world can cause a big impact for a young person. She gave her opinion about the school's food that she usually have in her blog post. To everyone's surprise (and I'm sure to herself too), her post has created a massive awareness.

I myself have never created awareness in the digital world but I am aware of an issue rising in my country through his facebook page. He does a lot of charity work and conduct events to create awareness. Latest, people have been writing to him via facebook direct messages about sexual abuse. He has helped a lot of people to further their investigations. I myself have come to realize of the high number of cases occurred. I agree that digital world helps create awareness which can further a positive cause such as helping people in need.

I believe that the digital world work wonders. Despite the scary things people do online, a lot of people are using ICT for the right reasons. Scamming is undoubtedly happening such as the cat fished case about Mr. Alec Couros.

Reporter, Ms. Soteriou highlighted the various things that went viral. Reading through their viral stories, it does show the impacts of things that occur via the digital world.

I'd like to take and use the digital world positively. Some of the things I do offline to help people for the better, I would like to do the same in this digital world.

Digital citizenship- I belong here too

I am a citizen of Malaysia. I also own a citizenship of the digital world. Well, you are too! A user of ICT should have proper ethics, practice safe participation in the digital world and be responsible of their actions. We should never be ignorant of our acts just because it is in an online world.

I took the quiz about bullying and I confidently answered them all. I got 3 answers correct out of the 4 questions. Although cyber bullying amongst secondary school students are not at a dangerous rate, it can be discreetly threatening.

I also agree with this article that a bully victim should not blame themselves for becoming one. It takes support from family and friends to not feel bad about becoming a bully victim.

This Cyber Smart Quiz is super cool! The quiz is intentionally for primary level students but I myself found it attractive too! I already shared it with my friends and families so they can have an idea how to teach their young ones about cyber safety.
The quiz gives a good idea on what to teach about cyber safety and enables people to learn on what is safe, what is not, what is right and what is wrong.

The two quizzes that I took gave me an insight of the relation of bullying in a digital world. I find it really important for all ICT users to know about the proper ethics. The quiz gave me a perspective that young people and us adults should practice healthy ethics online.

In my beloved country, there are just plenty of cases and people exposing stories of their children becoming victims of online grooming. Due to that and many other reasons, being cyber smart is a must for everyone!

I believe being aware of healthy ways to operate ICT can help a person develop understanding about the pros and cons of a digital world. We adults may not be able to stop young people's curiosity but the understanding of a digital world can work as a reminder to them in case things happen.

When young people understands the good way to operate ICT, it may be easier to discuss with them or remind them about becoming a digital citizen.
I will share with my students, friends and families that becoming a digital citizen is altogether about having good ethics, being responsible
of
our acts and monitor our safety and to grant safety to other digital citizens.

Plan B

1.    List all of those digital technologies;

2.    Identify all of the ways in which they might break; and,

3.    Identify all of the methods you can employ to prevent, avoid and recover from problems with those digital technologies.

Digital technologies	Ways it might break	How to prevent/ avoid/ recover the problem
Smart phone(camera app)	Camera app can’t be open	Use digital camera
Digital tablet	Low battery	Ensure the battery is full before using it
Printer	Not connected to the laptop that children are working on	Use pen drive transfer folders from laptop to the computer connected to a printer
Video	It may not play although connected to the internet	Download the video first or load it first before the lesson
School’s wireless internet connection	Not connected to the device used	Bring my own portable modem and connect using a cable

Reading this makes me realize that it does make sense to think ahead of Plan B. I do realize that technology may break down and the funny thing is at times that we are in need is the time that it breaks down.

I do not think I have ever planned for Plan B. Usually my Plan B appears spontaneously. I don't think ahead of "what if" the digital tool breaks down. A lesson with students should be delivered as smooth as possible. Working with students, there are other challenges that may not make a lesson go as smooth as how us teachers want it to be. However, there are ways to minimize these risks. For instance with digital technologies, teachers can assume or predict what could break down during a lesson. Hence, planning for Plan B is a great idea! It can help teachers remain calm and still be prepared when a break down happens.

As Ms. Milne mentions in her blog post, seeking help from other people such as the ICT department is also one of the way for Plan B. This clearly shows that thinking ahead of the possible break downs can cut off the amount of time wasted during a lesson. Mr. Marcinek mentioned that the Plan B should also engage students in active learning.

Next on, I will be thinking of Plan B ahead of my lessons. Its a better way for me to be confident when conducting lessons with the students.

References:

Marcinek, A. (2014). Classroom Management in the Tech-Equipped Classrom. Retrieved October 22, 2016, from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-management-tech-equipped-classroom-andrew-marcinek


Milne, J. (2016, September 16). Start working out your Plan Bs. Retrieved from https://jaymedc3100.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/start-working-out-your-plan-bs/

Becoming a positive person

People are curious on how can a person think and act positively?

I figured this out for myself.

Becoming a positive person is not magic. I don't just snap my finger and turn myself into a positive person.

Honestly, it takes a conscious mind to think and act positively. With practice to be conscious when our mind is in a negative state, we will (god willing) subconsciously be conscious to switch our mind towards positivity.

Positive mind leads to positive actions.

<3

Planning for my PE

Reading about Part B for assignment 3, the task is quite interesting for me especially the second part of it. The second part of part B wants me to write my approaches that I will be using to plan ICT integration for my lesson plans.

I am used to creating lesson plans as I work while I am studying. However I am not sure if I used any particular theory or system to do it. Instead, I just fill in as the template flows. In short, I did not have a strategy when creating a lesson plan.

After learning a few courses I do realize that my way of planning a lesson does link to a theory or a process. It may not entirely follow a particular process but bits of the steps are in common. I think by using a particular valid process for planning will enhance my plan to be more compact for the student's learning.

Conctructivism learning theory helps teachers to further student's learning as students will develop new concepts prior to their learning. Then students will use their learning and apply it to new situations. This steps also is similar to the Bloom's Taxonomy.

Agreeing with Pamelagovender25, lesson plan makes me feel confident when executing a lesson. I would feel that the execution of the lesson is effective for the teacher and hopefully for the students as well. I shall now do lesson planning using a valid theory or process in mind.


Regards,
Sarah

Reflecting my professional experience

I am participating in this forum sharing about my previous professional experience and the one I will be facing next week.

The top 2 challenges/ problems/ mistakes  that I have faced prior to professional experience are:

 

1.  Not having enough ICT tools for all students

2. I usually do mistakes when linking theories to my write up

 

The top 2 fears I have about my EDC3100 professional experience are:

 

1. Keeping up with my daily reflections

2. Doing my lesson plans wrongly

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Weather

I did this activity. This activity opened up my perspective on how a common ICT can make us learn from elsewhere that are thousand of miles away from our classroom. Below is the photo I took in Selangor, Malaysia and I sent it to flickr.

Then I got my relative to send a photo of the weather of where she was and she sent me this:

This was a shot she had taken in Svalbard. Her captions as below:

"This was taken on our morning hike at 7.30am in the bay of Reliktbukta in Svalbard on 8-Sep-2016. The location is 80° North, a few hundred kilometres from the North Pole. It was a cold landing with temperature below 0°C. The air was fresh and crisp, the day-old snow making crunchy sound underfoot, so clean you can scoop it and let it melt in the mouth to quench our thirst as we walked up the slope and back, a distance of 6km. There was a low fog hanging over the horizon, dark over the water and white over land reflecting the colours below."

I mentioned earlier that we can learn beyond our physical classroom. For instance the topic is Weather. All photos submitted to that particular email will be organized and can be viewed at  flickr's technology in learning page. You should be able to see the pictures above and many more submitted by other students, there.

Regards,
Sarah

My learning objectives

I am now doing my unit plan. Below are my learning objectives:

Constructing knowledge objectives:

Earth and space sciences

• Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019)

Transforming knowledge objectives:

Processing and analysing data and information

•       Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions (ACSIS027) 
• ·         Compare observations with those of others(ACSIS213)

My learning area is Year 1 Science and I am using the Australian Curriculum for my unit plan. 

Below are the criterias from Year 1 Standard Elaborations (SEs) for my chosen content descriptions:

Understanding dimension/ Science understanding

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endevaour

Skills dimension/ Questioning and predicting

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analysing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating

Now I need to struck out things that are not connected to my learning content descriptions. Below are the revised ones:

Understanding dimension/ Science understanding

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endeavor

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analyzing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating

After going through this and the following page, I revised my criterion again to:

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endeavor

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analyzing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating

My somewhere

In regard to assignment 2, below is 'my somewhere'.

The classroom will consist year 1 students in a primary school. There are 15 students in a classroom. The school is in a purposed built area with a high speed internet connections, wi-fi availability within the whole school.

I have chosen the australian curriculum  and would like to teach Year 1 Science. I will be identifying two learning objectives for my unit plan. One would be on constructing knowledge and the other would be on transforming knowledge which I will find one under Science Inquiry Skills.

The students in the class are students who have wide experience handling digital technologies. As much as they are aware of digital technologies and the internet, they still enjoy outdoor play. They are curious of their surroundings especially outdoors. They would do different kinds of experiments on their own with the things they find outdoors. A guided learning journey may help these students to boost their interest and gain more knowledge.

Backwards design

What is backwards design?
Backwards design is a way of planning a learning journey. It encourages teachers to think of a goal first before creating a learning sequence or a unit plan.

I have experienced creating a plan for a Cultural subject. The topic at that time was "Visit Malaysia". The length of the unit plan was for 24 weeks. I remember planning the learning journey it based on the topic itself. The goal of the topic was to know about Malaysia. However there was no specific goals set when planning the whole unit plan. There was just goals to be achieve by the end of each individual lessons.

Backwards design is beneficial for teachers as it begins with the end in mind. It will help teachers to always have the goals in the front of their mind when planning a learning journey. Compared to the learning journey I planned, I find backwards design uses almost the same amount of time with a more focused goal. It also have a sense of continuity when assessing students at work in the designated period of time. This is also fair evaluating student's performances.

A unit plan created via backwards design are broken down into 3 categories as mentioned in Pamelagovender25's blog post. In the second category, it shows that various assessment methods can be used to assess students which can be fair for students as they have various kinds of capabilities.

I'd like to try to use the backwards design planning for my upcoming professional experience. Hoping to get encouragement from my mentor!

Regards,
Sarah

RAT model

 RAT model confuses me. How do I find replacement but not to replace the ICT used? I understand that it is a model that we can hold on to plan lessons that integrates ICT.

RAT stance for Replacement, Amplification and Transformation.

Replacement does not mean that ICT is used to replace a step of the lesson or to further enhance it. It should lead to the same learning objectives. 

Amplification in this model for lesson plans are the use of  ICT to enhance a learning. It may enable students to further explore their researches via various mediums.

Transformation on the other hand is defined as the usage of ICT that causes students to gain an advanced outcome that is beyond the usual classroom lesson.

Regards,

Sarah

copyright images

It really caught my interest reading about copyright images. Agreeing to Tamdubois, it can be confusing as to whether I am infringing or not when using images of others. So, here I am going to explain about my image.

I look for a picture of a puppy using Google Image. 

I may be wrong but from what I read, I understand that I am permitted to use the images and information on the webpage.

Puppy by Utekhina+Anna

This image is used on this page. I did not violate the copyright. From my understanding, the conditions of use has allowed me to use the image and I have linked the image to the website and the owner of the image. 

This is not the first time I am using an image to share online. I have been using images found on Pinterest to post on my Instagram account. I have also been acknowledging the images in my captions by stating the images are from Pinterest. I think that counts?

I hope I am not wrong this time. 

Copyright?

Copyright in general means a bunch of rights for materials produced. Ideas that is playing in a person's mind is not qualified to have copyright until it is materialized. Ideas should be turned into materials such as texts, recording sounds and films, concept map or images. 

Below are my answers for the questions here.

1. I think the last post on my blog is not copyrighted as the ideas came from me and I acknowledged the websites which my ideas came from. 

2. I myself own the copyright.

3. It is a copyright infringement if another person copy all of the content from my blog post onto their blog without referencing my page.

4. It is not a copyright infringement if I copy all of the content from my blog post into a post on the Study Desk because I own the right for my work.

Regards,

Sarah

The 21st century schools

The title of this article itself triggered me. The article listed 14 things that are obsolete in 21st century schools. Some of the list are such as not having social media accounts for the school, having old computers and not having wireless internet connection for staffs and students.

I agree there are certain points of the article that schools should be labeled as out-of-date. For instance, management of a school should consider to have Wi-Fi for their staffs and students. With Wi-Fi, many work can be done efficiently and students can explore the online world while being monitored by us teachers.
I disagree that 21st century schools should not ban students from bringing their own phones and tablets. I have experienced myself bringing a smart phone to class during college. Although it was not in school but I had during lessons. I have to admit that there are times the things on my phone was so interesting that I focused more on it instead of listening to the teacher teaching.

Are 21st century schools really obsolete when they do not adapt to ICT? My thoughts are, the schools are not necessarily obsolete when they do not adapt to ICT because they may have valid reasons for not doing do. There are various factors that schools need to take account before applying ICT in total. Besides ICT, it is still not obsolete for schools that teaches higher-order thinking skills. The Bloom's Taxonomy valid for all teaching and learning concepts.

I can really relate to this article. It said that students have intention to use their smart phones for research but gets distracted by incoming messages and social media notifications that leads them astray from their initial intention. At the same time, it can be a great tool to advance student's learning.

I know for a fact that schools need to be highly equipped with ICT. Going through this article has made me realize that ICT is unstable (as in forever growing). However I should be aware to grow the usage of ICT for my school even if I take gradual steps. With the advance use of ICT, I would tell myself to flourish as in develop myself professionally in an ongoing process and not just till the next professional development conference (Matchan, 2015).

Regards,
Sarah

Matchan, L. (2015). Schools seek balance for cellphones in class. Retrieved August 9, 2016, from https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2015/06/15/cellphones-school-teaching-tool-distraction/OzHjXyL7VVIXV1AEkeYTiJ/story.html

Why ICT is different?

Why is ICT different? Different from what? Different from a book, pencil or other technologies? "Other technologies" as in those besides digital technologies?

1. It collects data from all over the world in shorter time.
e.g. online survey

2. Various people of various backgrounds can take part in survey (collection of data)

3. Enable us to carry pages and pages of documents/ books/ pictures in a device
e.g tablets, smartphones

4. Carry bookmarked pages on a web in various device
e.g Diigo

5. Get updates for blog posts
e.g Feedly

6. Share concept maps with strangers
e.g Gliffy

7. save documents/ images in a software and the software included in various devices
e.g Dropbox

8. Learning on our own and get motivation while playing Game Based Learning

Best learning experience I've ever design

I remember very well my best learning experience that I have designed. Since I can define what best means, I would define it as a lesson that includes children's interest and their different abilities. I agree to this post that a good lesson is one that is able to capture the children's attention and the objective is delivered.

The best learning experience I designed was during the Sports theme. We learnt about sports and I included the use of ICT to play some of the games. The lesson provided opportunities for children to play sports using Nintendo'sWii device. The children were explained about the games before they each take a chance to play.
The objective of the lesson is to practice the children’s eye-hand coordination. The lesson involved only the 6 years old children.

Regards,
Sarah

Practising my schema

I thought I could write anything for my blog post for this course. Which I could! But, here is the recommended way of writing a blog post which is to do reflections.

Two of the 5 elements bothered me as I couldn't make my way to understand them. Below are the elements that I did not understand:

• point #3 Critical analysis- how do I question my assumptions/ values/ believes? I don't think I am used to questioning things too much

•  point #5 An outcome of reflection- a summary of what I learned? I think I do learn something from articles I read but I am really unsure of how do I write it down? To me, what I learn is just "so simple" that I get the feeling of "is-that-considered-learning? how-do-I-note-it-down"? 

I worked my way to clarify those 2 issues by talking to some people.

I'd like to give a shot and re-do a reflection on technology being digital.

Seeing the terms analog technology and digital technology brings up a point in my mind. These two terms remind me the definition of technology which I used to misunderstand it.

My definition of technology are tools that's only related to ICT such as the computers, mobile phones, television, food blender and speakers. However, I learned from the Identify the ICT quiz  that ICT was so different than what I thought it was and I wrote about it too.

I believed that technology are ICT tools. However according to my initial concept of ICT I find that my definition of technology contradicts. Why is this? It is because an object may be of a technology but it does not necessary mean its an ICT tool.

For an instance, an analog watch is a technology but is not an ICT tool. To be exact, it is an analog technology. "When we say something is analog, we often simply mean that it's not digital: the job it does, or the information it handles, doesn't involve processing numbers electronically."
However, a smart watch is a digital technology. Digital technology means the object is an ICT as the works in it are computerized. Technology does not simply mean ICT. Technology according to dictionary.com   is the creation and use of technical means which has the connection to various aspects such as environment, art, social and science. What about analog technology and digital technology?

I shall now define technology as a form of tool of various aspects. Technology has now involve ICT and the term has grown from an analog technology to digital technology.

Regards,
Sarah

Technology being digital

What does a technology (an ICT) being digital means?

"Technology" itself does not define ICT. So, what is technology?
I'd like to answer this and am excited to do so as I found a clearer picture to this. This article helped me to see the bigger picture of digital technology. Understanding the article was easy because the explanation for analogy technology reveals the behind-the-scene for digital technology.

I recently found out about Snapchat filters and how it works. So to read about digital technology , my points of knowledge gained here and there starts to connect! It makes sense to me as I've sort of seen how digits are used in software.

Is face recognition technology similar to finger print recognition for passports? It is said that face recognition technology has more fine benefits as it can recognize a figure from a far. (NEC) Despite that, there are some things that digital technology can't translate. Hence, the usage of both digital technology and analogy technology should be hand in hand when it comes to delivering lessons to the children.

Regards,
Sarah

Identify the ICT quiz

I took the Identify The ICT Quiz. I scored 3/10. I think its pretty bad but its ok because I learnt something out of it.

When answering the quiz, the concept of ICT that I had in mind was technologies with the purpose of communicating. Communicate as in human to human or communicate as in sending information, data or details. After getting the results, I knew my concept was WRONG! I did feel a little disappointed though. First quiz- FAIL. Bad start Sarah, bad start. haha

I then looked at the reviews for my answers and I figured the correct way to picture ICT. I understand now that ICT also means digital technologies. I looked for more review from other students and I develop further understanding for the ICT concept.

Regards,
Sarah

The Evil

If you notice, or if this comes out right, I am writing in a different font. Not in the font I would usually choose. No it's not hormones, its not anger, its emotions. Bad ones. Or maybe it is hormones?

Why am I titling this The Evil?
Because that is how I am feeling. Evil. At the same time I know that I shouldn't, that I should recite Zikir more often. I just felt a little calmer after reminding myself to zikir more often.

I shall change the font of my typing as I feel calmer now. As calm as this:

so calllmminnng. ascalmingasthisFont.

Oh wait, what Evil-ish was I feeling earlier? Ah never mind! I shall get back to think good and be good. 

Regards,
I want to be grateful.