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| The e-learning platform of my girl's school |
The successful case I am going to share is from my little girl. Starting from this school year, her kindergarten introduces a new integrated e-platform which consists of a school correspondences broadcasting system, a repository of class notes, a kid learning channel as well as a parent learning channel. In the kid learning channel, a new topic on liberal studies will be posted every week. It is present as a short flash story. There are some tags embedded along the playing of the flash. Some of these tags lead to interactive quizzes related to the topic, some lead to extended knowledge. My girl shows great enthusiasm and urges me once every few days to log in to the system for her to play games and watch stories. She is able to grab relatively complex concepts or facts like Confucius when they are incorporated into an interactive and multimedia median. These ideas might not be effectively conveyed verbally or by reading books.
One of the keys of success of this kid-learning system is each story is quite short. Younger children would be able to finish watching the whole topic/story before they lose their concentration. Cute images and characters used in those stories also helps to attract their attention. Interactive games and tests are able to reinforce the newly learnt knowledge. One important factor that can't be ignored is the involvement of parents. This tends to become more prominent and crucial when the students are younger.
1 comments:
I think the success of learning and teaching using technology is pretty much dependent on the teachers'/education policy makers' attitude. Until now, technology is still commonly viewed as a supplemental tool in classroom education. For my son's primary school, every classroom just got one computer. The road to technology as an integral component of academic curriculum is still a long way to go.
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