Haha, such situation won't be there if we have alerts or notifications on our phones isn't it?
Onwards to the future of E-learning or digital classroom. Technologies are evolving annually and it's amazing speed alter the definition of learning dramatically.
For example, instead of seeing little children holding big cardboard books, you'll see them playing with kindle or ipad on public transportation. It's up to the point that you don't know if technology is killing the fun of physical learning or not.
Okay, back to e-learning.
My first taste of E-learning was in 1996, where I'm still a little kiddo in Kindergarten in a little computer lab called EDNO LAND. In there, a room filled with huge computers with embedded software to let us learn via cartoonic scenario. It was a great experience, but not much on learning though because I was more focused on playing instead of interpreting what I need to learn. haha.
All the while in Primary and Secondary School, I had elearning lessons on how to type, how to use Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. Back then, it was quite enriching because it is new to me.
In the recent years, we could see that the trend of E-learning really flourished. From the traditional computer labs, now we could see laptops being integrated to lesson usage. There would be no more A1 size paper presentations, instead, there would be powerpoint presentations.
Like how Republic Polytechnic Classroom environment is! Personally I wasn't from RP, but I knew how their system works (due to friends).
Okay the FHM Stickers are a bit distracting.But nevertheless, this is a typical scenario of how RP's classroom look like. In the morning, everyone would be given a problem to solve. At the end of the day, students are expect to present their solutions to the class.
This enhance learning, yes, but most of friends forgotten how to write by the end of their tertiary education. LOL.
And here comes a new product Microsoft Surface.
A multi touch panel?
To be honest, I've seen this thing, something similar back in 2010 when I was working in Singapore Science Centre.
In one of their exhibition, i-Space, they have this multitouch panel or table to exact where visitors could draw, paint, and send the info into an interactive wall for display.
Pretty neat in predicting the future huh? haha.
It pretty seems like an enlarged Ipad to me. like an iTABLE I supposed?
I personally don't think that this technology would be successful as it is just another multi functional device that is bigger and allows more people to deal with it at a single time.
However, my words could be wrong, if people would buy this device and increase family bonding time.
It just don't really work for me. OPPS =X
I love the wonders of the internet and technology! And one more consideration as to the benefits of e-learning which i would like to propose.... would be that it literally helps to lighten our load. I'd rather primary school kids carry a laptop/ ipad around, than to carry the weight of 10 textbooks around in their bag. What's more, e-learning is much more interactive, hence it engages a student better, thus facilitating the process of info absorption.
ReplyDeleteIt pains me to see little kids carrying Ipads around, because they wouldn't experience the joy of physical toys and books anymore? But I guess this is inevitable of this upcoming "technological era"
ReplyDeleteI certainly applaud the paperless education notion that has been going on in recent years because it saves the trees!! :D
As what wendy says, it lightens our load. Our insane UGC textbook weighs so much more than my laptop -___-
E-learning is indeed a success! Chances of us loosing focus or perhaps falling asleep while learning online will be very much slimmer compared to listening to a monotonous lecturer chanting away, isn't it? Wouldn't it be nice if we have a choice between physically attending lecture and watching a video that delivers the lecture contents... hmmmm
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