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Hello Everyone,

Nice to meet you again~

Today I learned something new and quite cool to be use on teaching and learning. Have you heard about AR or VR? AR is Augmented Reality and VR is Virtual Reality. But in this segment, I will focus on AR :) Have you watch Iron man , then it will be more easier to relate with what we are going to be discussed~

Augmented Reality :  (direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics ).

In Iron man, there are a lot of moments where the main character deals with the buildings and his gadgets by virtual asses to the technology right. Where he sits down in the chairs and move his hands to move the screens to all of the places...hmm...can remember???

It will be very useful tools in teaching the students but I personally think that it will become more popular in the future as the development of this technology is still new and still in process. Imagine having a class where you can learn virtually in 3D about the content of the subject where all the details can be seen. Take for example where the Biology teacher can teach the students how to dissect a frog without actually need to use the real frog because of the help of visual image. This will help the students to see the organs more clearly and also contribute to their experiences as well. For geography for instance, the layers of the earth can be learn by separating the earth segment in the virtual model where the students can relate their learning.

Talking about this remind myself of my school time memories where at that time using slides and computer are considered the most advanced technology that we have in our school. Other than that, the teachers usually used text books to refers to the information and sometimes we will be shown structures of earth through some plastic earth model in geography class and even that makes our learning fun and interesting than usual. Imagine having 3D leaning environment surely it is more amazing as you can relate it realistically to the real life.Besides that, using it motivates all the learners as they are more curious on how to handle this tools and the process of learning itself are very different compared to traditional learning where all mostly what you do are sitting down and write your notes in the class. Using this Augmented Visual mechanism allows more hands on activity occurs and interactive learning with critical and creative development in young students especially because they can see the subject learn in many perspective as they can rotate the 3D image.

Despite all this research shown that having too much reliability towards this tools which I agreed will encountered the teachers job since mostly all the works been done by the mechanism in terms of explaining the content. More than that, this tools availability are limited and it took a long time to produce in this time and the use of it requires huge some of resources in supporting the usage of this technology unless if it were given free to all of the schools then only some of the schools and students can benefits from this. In addition to that, the teachers need to be fully aware and equipped with the knowledge and skills in using Augmented Visual tools so that they can used it and maximise it fully for the learning and towards the students.

Too much of the usage will lead eventually to some learners benefits greater than other learners as previously we discussed about VAK and I hope you still can remember what it is..okay VAK refers to (Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic) learners. In Augmented Visual (AV), students that learned through visual and kinesthetic gained more on the content and knowledge as it is their best way of learning and this giving perception that auditory learners does not benefits much from this learning styles and there are a lots of arguments on this topics so it means that as a teachers we should not excessively use this teaching methods but need to have a combination of traditional and modern teaching to balance the teaching methods so that our students can benefits from both teaching and learning styles. For me, I will definitely apply this in the future if the school manage to supply the facilities and besides it's cool to use it ..aha.. BUT , of course with proper knowledge and skills to use it okay :)

That's all my guest from me :) See you soon and thank you ;)

The Beginning of my career~

Learning Journal of Sekolah Tamil Ladang Semenyih :)

Oh~~~ My Brilliant Honorable Guests Welcome Again to HERE!!! Aha~

Since I am coming back from my holiday, I have been through new journey of life which one of it is  going to school and do some ACTUAL TEACHING!!! Which for your information I have been craving for and my target is especially primary little cutie students~

Ehemmm....

So,....well let me tell you MY STORY OF REFLECTION (MIRROR~MIRROR)~

"The Experience is such as The Furniture's completing the Desirable Living Room For Me~" Aha~ -By Me-

Four consecutive memorable days which 3 of them are spending with the students in school while the last one in our university~

Une Memoir~ 

[Beau Contact]

First steps to school wondering whether the teaching plan and lessons would suits the students taste. My Feelings for that day as such a mixture of spices to make a fantastico~ sauce. The feelings of spiciness and bitter sweet flavors center my life at that moment. Well, let's come back to reality now ;).

Teaching as a teacher to primary students in this case, Grade 6 allows me to experience a lot of opportunities that will prepared my expectation in the future. Throughout the journey, I get to know the students, their school and classroom environment, culture and how the students learn more deeply. 

There are a lot of factors to be taken care on especially one of them is how I need to address the issues of learners differences in terms of ethnicity and culture differences (social class) when planning the lesson plan and conducting my teaching strategies. Since this is Tamil school where majority of the school community is Indian, their culture of communication school and classroom environment are different in account to the students social class as well. Majority of the students and teachers used to communicate in Tamil language whether outside or inside classroom therefore, the use of English language is only restricted during English language class and this lead to students have quite low English level in terms of writing, reading and communication. 

Hmm...so being a teacher, you need to be aware of these factors because it is important so that we can relate better with our students. While planning the lesson plans, I need to be cautious not to touch matter that can be considered sensitive in Indian culture. Which means, I need to know and update my knowledge about Indian society culture in Malaysia so I can transfer the knowledge to my sweet students in a way they can understand in culture context. Moreover, the activities created must be correlation to Grade 6 curriculum in Malaysia and also something that students can relate to daily life when especially you give examples that related to the content. For instance, majority of the students are from middle and working class in social class stratification so it is common sense not to give example of "What can we recycle Prada bag into?" while learning as they don't really have the experience on the item okay. It will be much better to use common example such as "What can we recycle tissue box into?" because then all the students can participate in discussion session.


Despite all this factors, students learned best by more hands on activities because in this age they are more an active learner and also what we can relate is that students have different learning styles which in previous blog we talk about VAK (Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic) and therefore creating activities for learning need to include active body movement to make the students to remember what they learned because from my observation this way improve students memory and their meta-cognition too (meta-cognition: thinking about thinking). Teaching and creating activities required higher thinking of critical and creative skills too where we need to ensure students do make progress in their learning through appropriate assessment. Appropriate assessment is according to students English level where perhaps students with lower ability in reading for instance will be given simple text t read yet not too SIMPLE because they need to progress from their level, we don't want them to stuck at their level, do we...  So......hmm...I used a lot of so...okay...So...my dear LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, to become a good teacher, one must have the experience, knowledge and skills to handle the students and they need meet the students need too. Which means, RESPECT YOUR TEACHER when they are trying to help you improve your learning, COOPERATION with YOURSELF-CONTROL is a MUST !!! :) Okay ~ It will be better when you have the experience of becoming the teacher yourself because that way you will really know that being a teacher need a very big courage, patients and understanding to teach people.



That is all for today, what I can conclude here is that first of all knowing your students, social culture especially and ethnicity will eventually helps you to plan your lesson plans accordingly. More than ever, the activities that correlated to students ethnicity and social culture will broaden ways of teachers strategies to teach. My dear Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for making your time to read my blog and please do visit again. I hope we can learned something from the STORY OF beginning of MY LIFE~


ADIOS~