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"Educational Trends Shaping
School Planning and Design: 2007 " from "trend2007" and answer these questions
According to this article, how could technology help school planning to be more:
a.equitable
b."big&beautiful class"
c.changing to new mission
d."paperless"
e. "anywhere anytime anyone" approach
f.This article 's been written "before"2007,so there must be some more "change" in using technology in Education,please make the list of those "effects" of new technology(-ies) affecting schooling nowadays.
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News Card Posting No. 2
Haitao Wu (Lester)
Title: Can food prevent disease?
Source: AFP
Writer: Christine Courcol
In China, there is a widely believed advice which is if anyone wants to use tonics to enhance his/her health, the best tonics are foods. Using food to prevent health has long been a research field for many medical practitioners. Here is an excerpt of the article that is titled “Can food prevent disease?” by Christine Courcol on AFP:
Eating tomatoes to help prevent cancer, garlic to prevent AIDS or drinking fruit juice to ward off Alzheimer`s? Despite a bevy of research, the impact of food on killer diseases remains to be proved.
Watching what you eat, experts say, does help prevent illnesses such as diabetes, hypercholesterolemia---which leads to cardiovascular diseases---or osteoporosis. But research are in disagreement over illnesses not directly related to nutrition, such as cancer, AIDS or neurodegenerative diseases---though again, all recommended a balanced diet.
Eating fruit and vegetable fibre has been proved limiting the risk of colorectal cancer in a research in Europe. Fruit was tipped as a protection against cancer of the lung, and to ward off prostate cancer the study recommended five cups a day of catechin-rich green tea---catechins are polyphenolic antioxidant plant metabolites.
Soybeans can reduce the risk of cardiovascular system threefold but it could increase the risk of infertility.
Lycopene, the bright red antioxidant pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits, also was found y some researchers to reduce the risk of cancer, but the US Food and Drug Administration says there is no solid proof for the claim.
Fish are hailed for their omega-3, a family of unsaturated fatty acids, fish are also rich in mercury and toxic PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls.
After leafing through 7,000 studies from across the globe, the World Cancer Research Fund recommends avoiding food and drinks high in sugar, salt or fats and low in fibres, and instead eating fruit, vegetables, wholegrain cereals and pulses.
Experts at France`s national food and cancer research centre said a varied diet of mainly fruit and vegetables with not too much alcohol would help prevent cancers of the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, lung, stomach, pancreas, colon-rectum and bladder.
Bussakorn Lert-itthiporn
ID: 512-9501
News Card No.2
Philips develops "intelligent pill"
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Reuters – www.reuters.com
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch group Philips has developed an "intelligent pill" that contains a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug reservoir to release medication in a specific area in the body.
Philips, one of the world's biggest hospital equipment makers, said Tuesday that the "iPill" capsule, measures acidity with a sensor to determine its location in the gut, and can then release drugs where they are needed.
Delivering drugs to treat digestive tract disorders such as Crohn's disease directly to the location of the disease means doses can be lower, reducing side effects, Philips said.
While capsules containing miniature cameras are already used as diagnostic tools, those lack the ability to deliver drugs, Philips said.
The "iPill" can also measure the local temperature and report it wirelessly to an external receiver.
The company plans to present the "iPill" at the annual meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) in Atlanta this month.
The iPill is a prototype but suitable for serial manufacturing, Philips said.
(Reporting by Niclas Mika; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
Summary:
Phillips has developed iPill, a capsule-type pill that has microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug container. It works by using the sensor to locate itself in the digestive system and release drug to treat the disease. There’s another type similar to iPill, but it only contains tiny camera for diagnosing disease.
This development means better and more accurate disease diagnosis, reducing risks, and more effective treatments.
Assignment 2: Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design
Our schooling system is unfair. Why? The following are a few factors:
Finance: Many countries must distribute a large share of their central budgets to improve harvests and decrease poverty. When eating is a severe problem, studying even cannot be the second mission to it.
Teachers: I want to use a Thai person who has a degree in English language as an example. Being a teacher of a government school, she can make approximately 10,000 Baht per month, but if she works for an international company, her monthly income is roughly 20,000-30,000 Baht. Low payment has been an obstacle which has prevented many well-educated youngsters from teaching. Thus, many developing countries lack qualified teachers.
Space: Unfortunately, this always happens in developed countries and areas. Singapore, for example, is a developed country, and its government always put education as one of the priorities. But due to the limited land, many private colleges have to scatter their faculties across the country. A student may attend “Microeconomics” class in one building in the morning, and then take a bus to another building for the class of “Management Accounting” in the afternoon. I have ever got chances to talk to some university staff in Thailand, most of them told me that their institutions need to build more classrooms and laboratories.
Distance: A few days ago, I read an article in Bangkok Post which says that some students in a village at the boarder between Thailand and Burma have to take a boat to go to school in another village. But when it rains heavily, they must stop taking the boat because it is too dangerous, so they have no school on that day. There are insufficient schools in many countries, and the distance ward off students from the limited opportunities to study.
But fortunately, there is a solution to all of the above-mentioned problems. That is: technology. Technology gives us an opportunity to study on every corner of earth. This is not an exaggeration. We can record lectures and put them online so every one can access to them. We do not need to mobilise thousands of new graduates to become government school teachers, instead, we can set up internet connection in every remote village so that all students will be able to access to all they have to learn.
Technology can solve spatial problems as well. For those students who have to hop among different buildings in a city, we can make audio and video materials for them, so that they can study through the Internet, DVDs, iPods, mobile phones, etc. Please be noticed that a computer is no longer the only means to play multimedia files. You can imagine this: you have two options, one is that you catch a bus to attend a class of “Human Resource Management” with another 40 students in a building; the other one is that you can play the record of the same lecture on your laptop, DVD player, iPod, or mobile phone, and you sit comfortably in your room while watching it. Which one would you choose? I believe most people would choose the latter. Through the latter pattern, study takes place happily and comfortably.
Technology is arguably the only way to solve the distance problems so far. In India, the government has used satellites to help farmers increasing harvests, fishermen increasing catches and all people avoiding negative impact of monsoon. It is definitely possible for us to use the same channels to improve our educational system. If there is internet access or satellite signal, those children at the border will not have to travel for miles every day to study. When distance and traffic are barriers, why not let technology be the solution?
When we say a class is big, we usually mean there are many students in that class. But how effective can a big class be? Let us take language learning as an example: If there are 40 students in a 45 minutes session, each student will get a chance to talk for one minute, roughly. That is to say, most of the 40 students will not talk at all in this class. But there is a solution, we can establish a large “virtual classroom” online, students can talk to one another in English through audio and video equipment in this “classroom” wherever they are. And the “classroom” can be divided into different topic groups, students can get into different groups according to their own interests. In this case, the number of students in each group will be smaller so that every student will get a chance to talk.
There are different learning styles, for examples, audio-learning, students get new knowledge through listening to resources; visual-learning, students study new things through watching; kinesthetic-learning, students study while doing physical activities, etc. There is not a “one-fits-all” learning style. Students have different learning styles because of their educational backgrounds, family backgrounds and biological characteristics. Thus, modern technology must be applied to deal with these styles. Allow me to use learning language as an example again: A grammar topic, “present continuous tense”, for instance. Some students like to learn it through listening to stories that consist of this grammar point, whereas some other students prefer to use this grammar tense in a game in which they can learn it through. So why don`t we establish classrooms in conformity with different needs of students?
School premises and facilities were not only built for delivering lessons. Nowadays, many organisations conduct conferences and meetings on university campuses. We should re-think about how to use school facilities effectively and economically for community functions. The following points are a few examples:
Instead of building a conference hall which usually demands a huge investment and is used only for a few times a year, can organisations use the nearest school auditorium?
Can we use a medical school as a first-aid centre for its neighbourhood?
In Paris, there are university student cafes which serve buffet meals across the city, non students can also use it by paying a bit more, can this be adopted by many other cities?
Can a university open its stadium to public and charge rental fees since it does not have sports games quite often?
Another trend which is booming is that we are using less paper now. Even for some documents which should be in black and white, we are still able to save them electronically, I call it “technologically be in black and white”. A student can save an electronic book in his/her laptop, iPod and mobile phone. A teacher can mark an assignment on his/her computer and then send the marked paper to the student`s mobile phone. I have ever used the SMS news service by Bangkok Post, each morning I would get the headlines of the day through text messages from Bangkok Post so that I did not need to buy copied newspapers. Technological equipment are normally multifunctional, for example, we can read a book and listen to its audio supplement on one laptop rather than hold a hard copy of the book in hands and prepare a CD player for its supplementary CD.
Technology plays a key role in helping disabled students and students who need special help. By law, students with disabilities must be taught along with their non-disabled peers in the least restrictive environment possible. Therefore, a school can develop a website and put the video record of each lecture on the website so that students who have walking disabilities and live hours away do not have to travel to school every day. Questions can be asked and answered through Skype, MSN, telephone or text messages. Under this circumstance, each student is taught equally because every one listens to the same lectures and can approach teachers for clarifications, although, through different ways.
I am going into some more details about how modern learning technologies can help promoting a person`s career by using an example: A man who graduated from a Chinese secondary school in Malaysia, due to his family situation, he did not have enough money to go to university and had to start work early. Being a journalist was his dream when he was a child, so he started to study for a higher diploma in Chinese language through a distance programme of Xiamen University, China, at the same time, he also studied accounting by himself and passed the examinations of LCCIEB (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examination Board), after he achieved two qualifications, he transferred all of the credits to another college in New York, after another two years distance study, he got a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. Now he is a senior correspondent of a Chinese newspaper in Malaysia.
I am a teacher of English language, so I would like to list some effects about how technologies affect language teaching and learning:
Films (Movies): Learning English (especially American accent) by seeing films is trendy nowadays. But this raises a question which is whether it helps for accuracy-based learning.
MP3: I have had many students who showed off new words that they learnt from songs to other students. I have also ever grouped up students and asked each group to find a song, play it and teach us three words in the song. They had to teach other students the meanings of the words and how to use them correctly.
Computer games: A student told me that he learnt the word “striker” from an online football game.
Hi5 and Facebook: Many students said they use Hi5 and Facebook to make friends around the world so that they can practice English writing. But again, does it really help for accuracy-based writing without a teacher to help clarifying?
All in all, we are using digital tools for teaching and learning now. In a foreseeable future, we will invent and use more digital products. We are learning how to effectively use those products, and we should not stop learning it.
Thitima Chawla
ID: 5129514
Newscard Posting No. 2
Title: India sends probe on to the moon
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk 14th November, 2008 GMT 17:08
India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, has sent a probe on to the surface of the Moon
The probe, painted with the Indian flag, landed on the Moon's surface at 2034 (1504 GMT),
While it was there, it took readings including measurements of the composition of the Moon's atmosphere. The mission is regarded as a major step for India because India is also trying to keep up with the speed of the other space-faring nations in Asia. The scientists in India were very pleased with the success of this mission, while many see it as another sign of the country's emergence as a global power.
Video journey
Earlier this week Chandrayaan 1 began orbiting the Moon some three weeks after it was launched from a space centre in southern India. The dropping of the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), weighing about 30kg, concludes the first phase of the mission.
During its fall from Chandrayaan 1, an onboard video camera transmitted lunar pictures to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) command centre. For the next two years, Chandrayaan 1 will take the pictures of the depth, width and length of the Moon and also check for the presence of water-ice with the help of instruments built by India and other countries including the US, Britain and Germany.
The chairman of India's space programme, Madhavan Nair, has described the mission as 95% successful so far and has announced a second lunar mission to be launched by 2012.
Mr. Nair has also said India is considering sending a satellite to Mars.
Bussakorn Lert-itthiporn
ID: 512-9501
Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design: 2007
According to this article, how could technology help school planning to be more:
A.equitable
The changing trend from school operated within the fixed geographic boundaries to be school choice will have not much difference to become equitable with the use of technology. Technology provides more opportunities of education to those who have access to at least some necessary technology to receive education such as internet connection. They can study academic subjects or non academic subjects by surfing the web or join online learning or classrooms. Schools do not only have to wait for a big fund from government to build more classrooms or facilities for students, otherwise schools must consider hard in order to spend the budget they have on building what. If they spend that on technology, it benefits both schools and students. While the school must consider whether to build an exploratory lab or build an art room for which group of students, sometimes they can do both without having to actually ‘build’ them, they can ‘build’ both in ‘virtual classroom’ way. For example, students can still draw pictures without using paper or crayon; they can draw and paint pictures by using digital pen in paint program.
B."big&beautiful class"
Technology can help making schools have more spaces. Some materials or equipments require storage spaces. But technology provides and keeps them in a computer file format, which creates much more empty spaces for schools to use to do other things like doing double duty for the community and local people in their activities. By so doing, it helps promoting the closeness of people in the society.
We can also see a big and beautiful class by using technology in another way. ‘Virtual classroom’, we can create beautiful classes (how beautiful the classroom will look like on the screen). It can have as many students as possible in a class when students logging on to the class with user names presenting in the class, otherwise it would be too crowded if in one class there are over 100 students actually sitting there. Imagine how many courses a school can open for different type of students. It will be much more student-oriented.
C.changing to new mission
School’s mission nowadays may change to do double duty serving the students traditionally and serving community in addition to that – school does double duty. This is very helpful because of its optimal consideration to school planning and design. When combine technology in the use for both, it will benefit greatly as a whole. For example, schools and community can share news and develop communication among them. It promotes unity.
D."paperless"
For students, it saves time doing their homework by just typing in a program such as Microsoft word which is easy to correct or erase and submit to the teacher online and receiving feedback. However, as it is easy to just copy and paste some information from the internet which sometimes is a case of plagiarism if that exam or report requires students’ own work or students do not use citation with the information taken from other places or authors. Paper would take more time to do. But that is not always the case for ‘paperless’. E-forms or electronic forms is another substitute to paper forms that technology help facilitate, for example students can fill in the petition form or student ID card replacement form online and collect it at the office or print it out as they pay money online. Very convenient.
E. "anywhere anytime anyone" approach
Technology is very useful and helpful for students who are far away from schools especially when talking about online learning through the use of internet connection. Education can reach those in rural areas and teachers can also reach their students without having to travel far away or live away from their home. Something to consider about internet security, as technology allows students to study online, some schools or universities offering e-learning or online learning but some are frauds. Some of them are not real or accredited by the government or a well-recognized institution. If there are no more buildings of schools like the brick-and-mortar structure, there should be something to verify or something to secure the students that they are actually study with schools that can certify them like giving recognized and certified government certificate. What would students do if they find out after their graduation that the schools they enrolled for e-learning is not accepted or accredited by government or well-recognized institution? Some online schools or universities even offer degrees for sale.
F.This article 's been written "before"2007, so there must be some more "change" in using technology in Education, please make the list of those "effects" of new technology(-ies) affecting schooling nowadays.
Satellite signal transmission to Education channel or online learning has an advantage if it is one-way to students or information receivers. What can they do or how should they do if they do not understand the lessons shown on that Education channel or a recorded video lesson or textbooks online. Therefore, interaction between teachers and learners need to be considered according to how well technology can cover or solves problems about some existing limitations e.g. teleconference. There seems to be many good things about education development that technology can bring to us. However, in many countries in this world, the cost of technology is still an important problem.
Thitima Chawla
ID: 5129514
Assignment 2
Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design: 2007
Technology can help school planning to be more equitable because it allows us to help others who may not have the opportunity to attend classes due to personal reasons to be able to still feel like they were present in the class by online posting of lectures or notes. This also helps us to receive more information and opinions from different students located in different parts of the world. Technology will help schools provide online courses or correspondent courses that will enable students to obtain a degree from other countries without having to be in that country or attending classes. These online programs also enable people who are older and have been working since after high school or diploma to do their bachelors online while still balancing their work life. Technology will help give chance to everyone who are longing to study but may not have the time. With the online postings and courses provided these days you may also say that they have almost reached the anywhere anytime and anyone approach. Students are having more sources provided for them through search engines. No matter what you are looking for is available to you online. Just with the internet connection we may search for just about anything and then use our critical thinking to modify it to fit what ideas we have. This not only benefits us by making things easier but it also enhances our creativity and critical thinking skills.
Having a beautiful classroom may have its pros and cons. If the classrooms are nice and big the students that will be enrolled would increase hence it will lead to less learning as students will not be paying attention and teachers will not be able to observe all the students. On the other hand, having a comfortable classroom will make students want to attend classes more as they may put all their attention into lectures rather than on a squeaky chair. For example: when I was in MUIC we use to have a class that took place in a seminar room the chair were comfortable the projector screen was easier to look at so I learnt more from while the class was conducted there rather than in another classroom. This room is usually used for organizing seminars for the outsiders or for guest speakers or even hotel guests. This way they were making use of the school facilities to make money as well as for conducting a class. Technology reduces the storage space hence leading to a spacious classroom which can be made beautiful and interesting.
Now- a-days in the educational field we use lesser papers. The presentations are done without printing out the handouts. We just use projectors to display out PowerPoint presentation to the class. We even take notes by typing it to the word documents and saving it to the thumb drive. Many schools in states have computers in the classrooms for each individual student or either they bring in their laptops. Most students own a laptop these days hence there’s less writing that takes place maybe only during exams. This also makes it easier for the teachers as they don’t really have to carry tons of assignment sheets that are handed in by the students. Students may post their assignments on blogs, send them to the email and the teacher marks the assignment and return it to the students via emails.
Conversations between teacher and students have become easier as teachers are now easier to reach even out of schools. Students may email the teachers their questions which will usually be answered before the next class. Students do not need to fill out forms to register their subjects as the universities provide an online registration process which makes it easier for the students. I remember my first year in the university, my registration was at 8:30 am and I reached the university at 7:30 I had to stand in line for about 2 hours before I my turn arrived as students were there since 6:00 am. The process was very complicated I had to run here and there looking for my advisor to sign the paper so I could proceed. By the time I completed my registration I was noon. When the online registration started it made it a lot easier as you could just do it from home and the advisor would approve it and then you just have to pay. This experience really shows how technology can be implemented for the better use plus assists students as well as reduce paper work.
Ly Mathieu
Title: Mozilla Firefow new up dated version
17 November 2008
Source: http://fr.news.yahoo.com/technologies.html
The Super star navigator of foundation Mozilla has just been up dated. This version v 3.0.4
corrects number of bugs and security matter. The new version rectifies problems relating with password management / operating. The users who have already the version Firefox 3
set up will receive a notification for up dating, automatically. By the way, the up dated version is available to whom want to install it. Just search for Mozilla Firefox v 3.0.4 in internet, it is free of charge.
Equitable
Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design are the reflection of our world and our society. It is sad to say but it is truth : education is for the wealthy.
Our world is divided by developd (North) and under-developed (South) countries and there are rich prople and poor people in both of them (there is the middle class but this is still a minority...). When people are poor they spend at least 2 hours per day in the transportation to and from school. If people are rich they choose the type of school, the area and private school. Nowadays northern and southern countries are trying to increase the possibility for middle class and working class people to have more access to education. However the opportunity lies in the law. Fortunately technology may democratizise education ; (Internat, Ipod, DVD). Space and distance are not a barrier anymore. You can learn from anywhere. I really hope that in the future all governments will invest more in education by designing effective curriculum and provide internet access for all..
Big and Beautiful Classrooms
Big and beautiful classrooms are not enough. They must be effective as well ! For me the perfect classroom should has no more than 15 students. Such a number will give the chance for each student to communicate properly with the teacher in order to know each other. It is very important.
A New Mission
School must maintain a close relationship with the business world because school is the place where we learn to get along in society. School should invite professional guests from the business world to give us advice on how to prepare for the next step to the ''working world ''. School should organize conferences, debates to get students use to the explore the world they are going to confront as soon as they finish their studies. School should also be a link bettween students and the workplace in order to help them to find a job or to begin a training course....
Paperless
Of course nowadays students and teachers do not use paper. Thanks to technology, teachers teach their lessons through Powerpoint. Students will download the course at the end of the lesson with the USB key. The homework is entered as a blog. Questions and answers are all in blog.
Anywhere, anytime.
Yes but still need personal organisation and self-discipline
Anywhere : Technology has change my habit of work, i can work anywhere because everything is now online i can do my home work in the internet coffee, at home or wherever i have internet access.
Anytime : Anytime yes but i have my favorite time is from 10 AM to 4 PM
This article was written "before"2007 so there must be a great deal more "change" in using technology in education. Please make the list of these "effects" of the new technologies effecting schooling nowadays.
Technology permits working people to continue their study. A lot of people are taking online courses, learning by themselves and sitting for their examinations.
To obtain the Teaching Certificate students can study by themselves by registering in an online university in the USA where all the scholarship will be online.
Satellite signal transmission to education channels and online learning has an advantage. It is an important step to provide knowledge for all the population. The question I have to ask are :
How to design curriculum in order to satisfy such an important and varied population ?
How to interact between teachers and learners ?
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