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International Avenue: Get to Know About Malaysia with Some Classroom IT Tools
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A gastronomical paradise and home to hundreds of colourful festivals- Malaysia is a beautiful, naturally blessed, diverse country. It has developed itself enormously in the past 50 years. Interestingly, the biggest roundabout in the world is located at Putrajaya in Malaysia.
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Discussing ‘Freedom’ When Implementing Screen Time
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It was a period of anxiety. Some or my kids were doing well with the restriction but the others were not happy about it. When I was in my lecture, I received messages from them asking me why I blocked this and that, not being fair to them, and causing them difficulties. As parents,…
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Screen Time App to Assist 21st Century Parenting
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In my home country, I avoid giving my kids smart phones and constantly discussed with them to reduce peer pressure. After moving to Finland, I decided to give them smart phones believing that the way they’re using them can be shaped with proper discussion and supportive monitoring app. As a student of the learning sciences…
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Flipped Classroom: Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)
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This semester, we are using the Claned as our learning platform, specifically to test the collaborative learning features on it. In ‘Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)’ course, articles are shared on Claned, we can read and highlights the text, seen by other collaborators when switched on, commenting and many other features that make reading a…
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Between Academic Research and Classroom Examples
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SIG27 was a unique experience for me especially when I reflect it as a part of the process in transforming a novice to an expert. On top of all the introductory and core courses we had this Autumn semester, SIG27 also exposed me not only to the theories, researches and current trends in the…
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Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology for Teachers
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One of the introductory courses assigned to us, the new LET students, Autumn 2016 is the Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology (INTRO). The course is divided into two sections, one on the theoretical aspect of learning, conducted by Hany Hachem, and the practical aspect of educational technology (the workshop), conducted by Jari Laru.
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Why Don’t Students Like School?
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Our lecturer asked these simple questions in one of our learning sessions: Why activate prior knowledge? Why is learning a hard work? Answering these questions is essential for teachers to design a good learning activity.
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Self Regulated Learning to Transform Teacher Centered Setting
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In Khalifah Model School (Secondary), when we transformed the school system from teacher-centered essentialism to student-centered progressivism, we believed that this transformation will help to save our students from being victimised by public education that concentrates a lot on low order thinking skills, mainly memorising and understanding. The transformation involved a lot of different…
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Socrative and My Kids: How Pupils React to Technology
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“Okay kids, see you in the evening!” I stepped out from our apartment heading to the university. It’s the first day I left my wife and kids at our new home in Finland, while attending my morning classes at Linnanmaa campus, one class at 8:15 in the morning on the Introduction to Learning and Educational…
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Getting to Know the Collaborative Learning
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Learning, Education and Technology (LET) program is built on three major themes and they are (i) collaborative learning (ii) self regulated learning, and (iii) learning of expertise. During this first one month of the program, we had several sessions to make ourselves familiar with collaborative learning. Hany Hachem helped us a lot introducing the concept.…