In Ngee Ann Secondary School, it's okay to 'tweet' in class! Amelia Tan from the Straits Times on 6 November reported that mobile phones and social networking sites such at Twitter are being used by the students and teachers in Ngee Ann Secondary as learning tools.
In recognition for its innovative use of technology, Ngee Ann Sec was one of the 30 schools to be honored this year with the title of "Pathfinder School" by Microsoft. Congratulations to Ngee Ann Secondary for being the 1st school in Singapore to be awarded this title!
According to the Ngee Ann Secondary School's principal, Mr Adrian Lim, the school decided to use social networking sites to aid in learning and teaching because he believe that it is one of the ways to connect with the students. He added," Our students are from a wired generation. They are used to receiving information on their mobile phones instantaneously and in multimedia forms. If we don't think we need to change the way we teach, we are in denial."
An innovative way to test the students understanding of concepts that they learn in school is to test them via Twitter. In Ngee Ann Secondary School, the students were given assignments that required them to summarize physic concepts and tweet their answers via Twitter.
Check out Ngee Ann Sec's Twitter http://twitter.com/ngeeannsec and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ngeeannsec accounts!
4 comments:
wonder when it'll be okay to tweet at work - never? even as it is, most workplaces do not allow chat, etc.
hey good job on the design and content of the blog!My field inspectors will love the idea of carrying cool gizmos and snapping photos and inputting data from a PDA when doing field work. They can then 'tweet' back to office and it'll be like birds chirping all day long.=x
Thanks PQ! That would hopefully decrease response time, but would it become cacophony, like at the bird shop? ;p
Some workplaces view tweeting or youtube-ing as slacking, but going down to buy coffee and chatting with colleague for 15 (or sometimes 30)mins is OK. And sometimes the IT guy will remind all staff that we should only use the internet for work related purposes (and while doing this he is actually tweeting away on how boring his job is).
So,go tweet!
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