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Katherine Walraven
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Dreaming ...
April 15, 2009 - 01:29 PM
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What does your ideal classroom look and feel like? If you had the ability to incorporate any ICTs into your classroom, towards any end, what would you do? Think BIG!
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Re: Dreaming ...
April 17, 2009 - 01:07 PM
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In my opinion, my ideal classroom is the nature classroom which is prepared with some important technology tools like laptops, cameras and electronic white board due to many students,at present, know the theory, technology and know the modern world but a few students know how to integrate theory, technology and modern world with the nature or the pristine area that is very exquisite.
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Re: Dreaming ...
April 22, 2009 - 03:52 AM
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I think an ideal classroom isn't just a classroom full of technology stuffs. It depends on which subject or which department it is belong to. Moreover, the ideal classroom for me is a classroom that has all of the equipment to enhance learning. For example, if I study physics, I would like to have all the equipments the are related to the experiments in the room. The reason is because when the teacher comes to a topic they can show the experiments like in the MIT's lectures in physics. I think, nowadays, technologies, such as projectors, computers and many more, are one of the prerequisites for a classroom. These technologies should be combine with other equipments to make the content more interesting and understandable.
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April 23, 2009 - 03:01 AM
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For me an ideal classroom wouldn't just be in a room in a building. It would take place outside in the real world where we can experience what we're supposed to be learning instead of reading about it from a textbook.
It's been proven that people learn things better by doing them, so why stay in the confines of the walls? Technology can help us in loads of ways when we're out exploring. We can keep in contact with one another. Record what we're seeing, hearing, doing etc. Communicate with people from round the world. Get us to wherever we want to go. If you think about it, we could be in two places at once.
My ideal classroom would make me want to keep learning, feel like we don't have any limitations to learning, be a place where I can be inspired not just by the teachers but by other people as well.
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April 23, 2009 - 03:37 AM
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agreed
talking about being in two places at once, i had a computer aided drafting class where my teacher connected his computer to everyone's in the room and took over the computers to show everyone at once how to do isometric figures. Saves times, and we don't have to all crowd around one computer too.
Wonder if that could be done with laptops during field trips and such
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April 23, 2009 - 03:49 AM
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My ideal classroom will be one where the students no longer use notebooks and lecture notes. It will be where each student owns a tablet PC for him to do his work. Thus far, in my school, only teachers own tablet PCs and they use it to conduct lectures in the lecture theatres. However, if students can own their personal tablet PCs as well, the learning process can get many times more efficient. This is because tablet PCs allow students to do their work online in a convenient way, even more convenient than the usual laptops as tablet PCs since it is touchscreen and we can literally write on it. Also, students can review lecture slides and make notes in class using their handy tablet PCs. Tablet PCs will also save a lot of time unnecessarily frittered away when a tutor's slides or notes fail to be projected on the screen and the students have to wait while the tutor tries to solve the technical error. Tablet PCs have been utilised in some schools in Singapore, but I do hope that every school will make use of this wonderful technology in times to come.
To have a bigger dream, my ideal classroom is the one surrounded by virtual walls. These walls can be "switched on/off" to show different things, depending on the needs of the class and the wants of the tutor. For instance, during a Biology class, the tutor can "switch on" these walls to show a frog's body. The tutor can then uses a remote controller to dissect the virtual "frog" to show the different parts or organs the virtual "frog" inside. It will then enable the students to gain better comprehension because they get to see things through their own eyes, although everything is virtual. I think this is necessary because sometimes we may not get to explore many things in the Laboratory (due to time constraints, space constraints, insufficient funds, etc)
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April 23, 2009 - 09:09 PM
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Seeing the reasons behind how and what you are learning is necessary to enjoying the learning, so my ideal classroom would be equipped with a teacher who helps to develop clear goals and is able to model how what you are doing will develop your skills, your knowledge and your values.
Learning is finding ways of receiving knowledge, understanding it in your individual way and then being capable of communicating it to others. My ideal classroom has a range of resources, from good old paper and pens to computers (with word processing, internet access etc.), ‘smart boards’ and any other ways of digitally or physically dealing with data so that it take a coherent and useful form.
My ideal classroom would be a ‘home base’ for learning, where the initial appetite for knowledge and experience is whet, and from which curious and creative learners are sent forth to interact with the world, using the range of resources to better take, make and share meaning.
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April 25, 2009 - 04:55 AM
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My ideal class room is a place where all sudents, lecturers are involved and connected. In my class room, we have opportunities to apply new technology in studying and doing research.
However high technlogy class room doesn't mean that each student with their laptops do their task alone, in this class student only use their laptops when necessary. Most of the time they do their task together. It will help building team spirit in class
My ideal class may also be the place feels like home where we doesn't only share our understanding but also our feelings and emotions.
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April 25, 2009 - 04:59 AM
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my idea of a classroom is like a "space and time room". Students will learn faster and better if they have a first hand experience of the topic. My dream room is a room that can adopt to what is talked about. For example, when the topic is astronomy, the room will change immediately as if you are in a spacve shuttle travelling the galaxy. Or another thing, when you are studying poetry or history, the room will go back to the time you are studying.
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April 25, 2009 - 09:57 AM
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I like Zays answer, of how the classroom is all around the world. Kind of like mini interns I suppose, it would be quite cool to do that. Maybe 3 weeks a year, the last week of a school term senior students have the opportunity to choose a place of study around the providence and go and work there as interns. These businesses/work places would have all come forward to the school and said there numbers (how many students they can take) and given a course outline. These courses would all be shown in a booklet style that each student gets given to make their choice (Zay, Liza, Chaz think elective style).
Kam, I too have experience with that software you are talking about. My computing teacher uses it when he wants to tell us or show us how to do something on the computer. It stops students becoming distracted and looking at something else and makes sure everyone has a fair chance to learn. It also saves the teacher from losing his voice :P as he doesn’t need to individually tell everyone how to do things.
Now let’s say the school had a compulsory requirement that all students must have laptops... now that could be kind of hard, especially on field trips to do that Kam. As the teacher would need to retain control of the laptops he would have to be connected to them all as the ‘supreme being’ I guess because that software enables a god like view. The teacher has the power to block the internet, individually and to the whole group and can view what everyone is looking at and doing on their computers. Now this could cause a few problems when the laptops are all owned individually. Could cause many privacy battles with the students as everything on their own personal laptop is theirs, private emails etc. If the teachers can kind of piggy back into what they are doing it could cause problems.
To be continued...
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April 25, 2009 - 09:57 AM
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Maybe the answer lies in schools which supply laptops to their students. And the students have to pay a bond to use them each year. That way they can be used on field trips etc to record notes much easier, I think that’s a good idea, I wouldn’t make it a requirement but an optional extra. Like, each class they get a laptop to use and they just sign in as usual with their own account but they get that option rather than pen and paper. So say each class has maybe 5 laptops locked in a cabinet. And then the teacher starts a class and the kids all come in and say maybe 5 of them have paid a bond to the school say $1000.00 then they have the option of using a laptop instead of pen and paper for the lesson. It is set up the same way as your user accounts on the computer, so everything’s connected the same way to the school server and internet etc. The teacher still has the option of taking over the screen and shutting off the internet if need be.
Dreaming bigger I love the sound of the tablet p.cs and Virtual walls! Maybe sometime in the next 10-20 years that will be a reality. Or maybe then we will have virtual classrooms? Lol when you look back at what people thought would be our future only 20 years ago its laughable flying cars? Who knows when things like this might happen 
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April 25, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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I love Kartini's vision of a modern classroom, and I can anticipate tablet PCs, in particular, becoming a common classroom occurrence.
However, I also believe that relying too much on technology may be degenerative, and that conventional teaching methods such as student discussion are vital.
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Jessie James L. Marcellones
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April 25, 2009 - 09:20 PM
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I'm dreaming of a classroom that is fully automated. I believe that you all have ideas on what this statements means.
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April 26, 2009 - 05:56 AM
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I would like to think the whole universe as my class room. Using technology now anyone can travel virtually online! So All student need is a laptop with good internet connection and good text materials with interactive software which will teach them with real life experience. If they do what they need to learn, they will not understand when they learn so many stuffs.
In fact people who contribute in developing knowledge in earlier centuries were not closed thinking by a class room. Knowledge is borderless, so to acquire knowledge we should be capable of thinking borderless.
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Jessie James L. Marcellones
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April 26, 2009 - 08:17 AM
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The whole universe as your classroom is interesting to hear about. I hope it will happen soon. Well, it can happen online with the use of the technology.
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