It's not that the low-SES parents do not care about their children while the high-SES parents do care about their children. It's that the low-SES parents -- for many reasons -- interact with their children differently than high-SES parents interact with their children.
Research shows that the quantity/quality of parent/child verbal interaction from birth to kindergarten for low-SES parents is -- on average -- substantially inferior to that of high-SES parents. This research shows that this holds true even in low-SES families where the child's physical needs are consistently met -- that is, these low-SES parents are not neglecting their children, they are simply not giving their children enough verbal interaction and enough high-quality verbal interaction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/25/what-school-reformers-can-learn-from-poker/?tid=up_next
Bicara tentang kepimpinan, pengurusan dan ICT sambil makan-makan.
29 Mei, 2014
Education is more than just instruction of course content
US professor Zhao believes Korean education must change
By Jung Min-ho
President Barack Obama lauded Korean education during his State of the Union speech in 2011, likening the teachers to "nation builders. " But Yong Zhao, an education professor at the University of Oregon, thinks the president was wrong.
The eminent educator believes Korean teachers need to break the "illusion" that they are doing well just because their students get high scores in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which he thinks only hinders the nation's necessary education reform.
"Obama is absolutely wrong," Zhao said in a recent interview with The Korea Times. "For Korea and China to grow more, their (education) system needs to change."
Zhao visited Chadwick International School in Songdo, Incheon, last week to give a special lecture about how the education system should meet challenges in the era of globalization. He met with Incheon city education officials to share his insights and expertise. It was his first visit to Chadwick.
In the 2009 PISA, Korea's 15-year-olds ranked fourth in science (excluding Shanghai and Hong Kong), second in mathematics and first in reading.
He thinks the rankings only "create illusory models of excellence, romanticize misery and glorify educational authoritarianism."
"PISA shows Korea is doing great; thus, Korean education should not change," he said. "If you reform, it will make you score less … This makes it impossible for you to change."
He sees PISA as today's "most destructive force" that impedes progress of education around the world. And the worst part of PISA rankings is that other countries, obsessed with short-term achievement, blindly imitate countries like Korea.
"Asian countries like China, Singapore and Korea score very high. Everybody thinks we have the best education. So people from other countries copy (them), it destroys their advantages (in their own system)," he said.
Zhao's works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. The China-born scholar has authored over 100 articles and 20 books, including "World Class Learners," which won the Society of Professors of Education Book Award last year.
For the past half century, Korean education has played a vital role in lifting the country to where it is now today. But for the next 50 years, he believes, Korea will have to revise its authoritarian education system and snap out of its obsession with scores, for further prosperity.
He noted the strength of Korean education, which contributed to the country's economic growth in the 1980s and '90s, may not be useful for the creative economy in the 21st century, "where we have the most educated bartenders in history."
"Korea passed the stage," he said. "Old education system was very good for producing workers for assembly lines. But what you need for the next stage, to become an advanced country, you need innovators."
In authoritarian systems, governments, teachers, parents are the authority; students have to comply with them, he said. "There, they do some things they do not like. They do not even know what they like."
The biggest problem of the top-down teaching is that students cannot learn beyond what their teachers tell them. Besides, once they get into college, many of them stop learning because learning is just a means of achieving their goal, not the purpose.
According to QS World University Rankings 2013, only two Korean universities made the top 100 list. They were Seoul National University, ranked 35th, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, at 60.
"We are great students only before college," he noted. "We focus on scores; we focus on getting to best universities; we focus on rote memorization; we do not focus on their joy of learning."
Zhao received his B.A. in English language education from the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China, before earning his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education at the University of Oregon, where he also works as a professor in the department of educational measurement, policy and leadership.
His serious message is this: for countries to succeed, they have to nurture creativity, which can be accomplished by passion-based learning.
"We need more creative students. Our children are not as creative. And they are under a lot of pressure with too much homework and private tutoring. That has damaged their happiness and they are not as confident," he said.
"That's why Chadwick is great because it allows everybody to develop what they are good at by participating in learning and by respecting every individual's talent," he added.
He said education should focus on developing children's strengths, not "fixing their deficiencies. " He also believes good education is more than just instruction of course content.
"It is a whole, entire experience of your life; who you talk with; where you play; what you talk about," he said. "Many Asian parents misunderstand. They think education is what their children learn from their teachers."
With the education market around the world increasingly opening, international schools, which have different values and systems, will challenge the old systems, he said.
"I hope globalization will bring different education models like Chadwick. It could challenge the old system like the iPhone changed the game," he noted. "It is like a bringing in a different definition of good education."
By Jung Min-ho
President Barack Obama lauded Korean education during his State of the Union speech in 2011, likening the teachers to "nation builders. " But Yong Zhao, an education professor at the University of Oregon, thinks the president was wrong.
The eminent educator believes Korean teachers need to break the "illusion" that they are doing well just because their students get high scores in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which he thinks only hinders the nation's necessary education reform.
"Obama is absolutely wrong," Zhao said in a recent interview with The Korea Times. "For Korea and China to grow more, their (education) system needs to change."
Zhao visited Chadwick International School in Songdo, Incheon, last week to give a special lecture about how the education system should meet challenges in the era of globalization. He met with Incheon city education officials to share his insights and expertise. It was his first visit to Chadwick.
In the 2009 PISA, Korea's 15-year-olds ranked fourth in science (excluding Shanghai and Hong Kong), second in mathematics and first in reading.
He thinks the rankings only "create illusory models of excellence, romanticize misery and glorify educational authoritarianism."
"PISA shows Korea is doing great; thus, Korean education should not change," he said. "If you reform, it will make you score less … This makes it impossible for you to change."
He sees PISA as today's "most destructive force" that impedes progress of education around the world. And the worst part of PISA rankings is that other countries, obsessed with short-term achievement, blindly imitate countries like Korea.
"Asian countries like China, Singapore and Korea score very high. Everybody thinks we have the best education. So people from other countries copy (them), it destroys their advantages (in their own system)," he said.
Zhao's works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. The China-born scholar has authored over 100 articles and 20 books, including "World Class Learners," which won the Society of Professors of Education Book Award last year.
For the past half century, Korean education has played a vital role in lifting the country to where it is now today. But for the next 50 years, he believes, Korea will have to revise its authoritarian education system and snap out of its obsession with scores, for further prosperity.
He noted the strength of Korean education, which contributed to the country's economic growth in the 1980s and '90s, may not be useful for the creative economy in the 21st century, "where we have the most educated bartenders in history."
"Korea passed the stage," he said. "Old education system was very good for producing workers for assembly lines. But what you need for the next stage, to become an advanced country, you need innovators."
In authoritarian systems, governments, teachers, parents are the authority; students have to comply with them, he said. "There, they do some things they do not like. They do not even know what they like."
The biggest problem of the top-down teaching is that students cannot learn beyond what their teachers tell them. Besides, once they get into college, many of them stop learning because learning is just a means of achieving their goal, not the purpose.
According to QS World University Rankings 2013, only two Korean universities made the top 100 list. They were Seoul National University, ranked 35th, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, at 60.
"We are great students only before college," he noted. "We focus on scores; we focus on getting to best universities; we focus on rote memorization; we do not focus on their joy of learning."
Zhao received his B.A. in English language education from the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China, before earning his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education at the University of Oregon, where he also works as a professor in the department of educational measurement, policy and leadership.
His serious message is this: for countries to succeed, they have to nurture creativity, which can be accomplished by passion-based learning.
"We need more creative students. Our children are not as creative. And they are under a lot of pressure with too much homework and private tutoring. That has damaged their happiness and they are not as confident," he said.
"That's why Chadwick is great because it allows everybody to develop what they are good at by participating in learning and by respecting every individual's talent," he added.
He said education should focus on developing children's strengths, not "fixing their deficiencies. " He also believes good education is more than just instruction of course content.
"It is a whole, entire experience of your life; who you talk with; where you play; what you talk about," he said. "Many Asian parents misunderstand. They think education is what their children learn from their teachers."
With the education market around the world increasingly opening, international schools, which have different values and systems, will challenge the old systems, he said.
"I hope globalization will bring different education models like Chadwick. It could challenge the old system like the iPhone changed the game," he noted. "It is like a bringing in a different definition of good education."
20 September, 2012
31 Mei, 2012
Kursus Pengurusan Berkesan dengan Pengurus Sekolah Orang Asli
Tamat sudah satu lagi tugas sebagai pengurus.
27 April, 2012
Esok saya tinggalkan Mersing. Macam tahun 1986 dulu, saya tinggalkan Mersing selepas 2 minggu bercuti di Pulau Tioman. Kali ini saya tinggalkan Mersing selepas 3 hari mengajar Pengetua dan Guru Besar Mersing.
Pertama kali saya datang ke Mersing, 26 tahun dulu. Mersing pekan yang kecil. Saya naik bas dari Kuala Lumpur jam 11 malam. Turun di Keluang jam 3 pagi pagi. Terkial-kial seorang diri di Stesyen Bas Keluang menunggu jam tujuh pagi untuk bas pertama ke Mersing. Sampai di Mersing, disambut ulat menjual chalet dan bot untuk ke Tioman.
Kali ini saya memandu ke Mersing. Jam 11 pagi dari Puchong. Ikut Lekas ke Kuala Pilah, Serting Ulu dan berhenti makan tengahari di simpang Bandar Muadzam. Makan nasi berlauk kari daging cincang. Lama dah tak makan daging cincang yang sedap. Saya sungguh berselera, walaupun panas makan di gerai berbumbung zink.
Dari Simpang Muadzam saya meneruskan perjalanan ke Rompin. Kiri kanan kelapa sawit lambai melambai. Tanah Felda. Lepas 2 jam saya sampai ke Rompin. Masuk jalan tepi pantai. Jalan luas 2 lorong, terus ke Endau. Saya sampai ke Mersing pukul 4.30. Kami singgah di PPD jumpa pegawai Latihan, En Jamaludin yang segak bergaya.
Selepas sedikit perbincangan, En Jamaludin mencadangkan kami tinggal di Hotel Timota atau Hotel Havanita. Ganjil-ganjil nama hotel di Tioman. Hotel Timota penuh, kami ke Hotel Havanita.
Kami menginap di Hotel Havanita yang nampak biasa, di tepi jalan menghala ke Endau. Satu km dari pekan Mersing. Semalam RM 140.00, goverment rate. Senang saya berulang alikke PPD lebih kurang 3 km. Tengah hari pun sempat balik hotel jamak zuhur dan asar.
Mersing sekarang sibuk, dah ada KFC dan Merry Brown. Semasa saya ke pekan lepas Isya' tadi, ramai yang beratur di KFC. Semalam hari gaji. Malam ni alam Jumaat pulak.Senang pergi KFC, anak seronok, ibunya pun seronok tak payah masak. Si bapa lagi seronok, pelan lancar. Saya yang berjauhan dari keluarga ni tulis blog ajelah.
Pertama kali saya datang ke Mersing, 26 tahun dulu. Mersing pekan yang kecil. Saya naik bas dari Kuala Lumpur jam 11 malam. Turun di Keluang jam 3 pagi pagi. Terkial-kial seorang diri di Stesyen Bas Keluang menunggu jam tujuh pagi untuk bas pertama ke Mersing. Sampai di Mersing, disambut ulat menjual chalet dan bot untuk ke Tioman.
Kali ini saya memandu ke Mersing. Jam 11 pagi dari Puchong. Ikut Lekas ke Kuala Pilah, Serting Ulu dan berhenti makan tengahari di simpang Bandar Muadzam. Makan nasi berlauk kari daging cincang. Lama dah tak makan daging cincang yang sedap. Saya sungguh berselera, walaupun panas makan di gerai berbumbung zink.
Dari Simpang Muadzam saya meneruskan perjalanan ke Rompin. Kiri kanan kelapa sawit lambai melambai. Tanah Felda. Lepas 2 jam saya sampai ke Rompin. Masuk jalan tepi pantai. Jalan luas 2 lorong, terus ke Endau. Saya sampai ke Mersing pukul 4.30. Kami singgah di PPD jumpa pegawai Latihan, En Jamaludin yang segak bergaya.
Selepas sedikit perbincangan, En Jamaludin mencadangkan kami tinggal di Hotel Timota atau Hotel Havanita. Ganjil-ganjil nama hotel di Tioman. Hotel Timota penuh, kami ke Hotel Havanita.
Kami menginap di Hotel Havanita yang nampak biasa, di tepi jalan menghala ke Endau. Satu km dari pekan Mersing. Semalam RM 140.00, goverment rate. Senang saya berulang alikke PPD lebih kurang 3 km. Tengah hari pun sempat balik hotel jamak zuhur dan asar.
Mersing sekarang sibuk, dah ada KFC dan Merry Brown. Semasa saya ke pekan lepas Isya' tadi, ramai yang beratur di KFC. Semalam hari gaji. Malam ni alam Jumaat pulak.Senang pergi KFC, anak seronok, ibunya pun seronok tak payah masak. Si bapa lagi seronok, pelan lancar. Saya yang berjauhan dari keluarga ni tulis blog ajelah.
26 April, 2012
Pengurusan Berkesan Mengguna ICT di Mersing
Pernah seorang Penolong Kanan di Negeri Sembilan yang saya beri kursus tentang Twitter dan Blogspot, memberitahu saya " anak saya kata ibu tak payahlah belajar Twitter dan Blog. Ini untuk orang tua saja".
Terkedu juga saya dengar. Kemuadian saya rasionalkan penolong kanan tersebut. Kata saya,puan sebagai pemimpin, puan berperanan membawa organisasi pimpinan puan ke satu destinasiyang dihajati. Mesti ada agenda. Perlu ada propaganda.
Blog dan Twitter, selain alat komunikasi moden, boleh dijadikan alat propaganda untuk mempengaruhi yang dipimpin, kata saya. Beliau setuju. Anak beliau pun setuju bila diceritakan semula rasional saya.
Sudah 4 hari saya di Mersing, bersama seorang kawan lain mengajar Pengurusan Berkesan Mengguna ICT kepada Guru Besar dan Pengetua. Kursus dilaksanakan di PPD Mersing. E. Jamaluddin, Pegawai Latihan dan En. Azman, pegawai ICT banyak membantu. Kursus tamat petang tadi.
Saya mengajar Twitter dan Blogspot. Masa mengajar Twitter, capaian Internet tidak beberapa baik. Masa saya cuma 2 jam. Alhamdulillah, sempat juga mereka buka akaun.
Dua jam lagi saya ajar Blogspot. Jelas keseronokan peserta kursus, puas hati berjaya membuat blog sendiri.
Terkedu juga saya dengar. Kemuadian saya rasionalkan penolong kanan tersebut. Kata saya,puan sebagai pemimpin, puan berperanan membawa organisasi pimpinan puan ke satu destinasiyang dihajati. Mesti ada agenda. Perlu ada propaganda.
Blog dan Twitter, selain alat komunikasi moden, boleh dijadikan alat propaganda untuk mempengaruhi yang dipimpin, kata saya. Beliau setuju. Anak beliau pun setuju bila diceritakan semula rasional saya.
Sudah 4 hari saya di Mersing, bersama seorang kawan lain mengajar Pengurusan Berkesan Mengguna ICT kepada Guru Besar dan Pengetua. Kursus dilaksanakan di PPD Mersing. E. Jamaluddin, Pegawai Latihan dan En. Azman, pegawai ICT banyak membantu. Kursus tamat petang tadi.
Saya mengajar Twitter dan Blogspot. Masa mengajar Twitter, capaian Internet tidak beberapa baik. Masa saya cuma 2 jam. Alhamdulillah, sempat juga mereka buka akaun.
Dua jam lagi saya ajar Blogspot. Jelas keseronokan peserta kursus, puas hati berjaya membuat blog sendiri.
24 April, 2012
CD-Hayat: Komputer Tanpa Hard Disk
Sekarang saya sedang cuba menulis buku. Buku ini tentang penemuan saya menggunakan komputer tanpa cakera keras (hard disk). Saya percaya buku ini dapat membantu orang ramai yang kerosakan hard disk.
Pengalaman saya menggunakan komputer tanpa hard disk bermula apabila hard disk laptop saya rosak. Bukan rosak teruk sangat, tetapi laptop Acer saya memberi amaran 'SMART failure predicted on hard disk.
Selepas menerima amaran tersebut, terus laptop saya tidak boleh boot. Saya ke kedai komputer, tanya harga hard disk baru. Masa tu harga RM160.00. Mahal, saya tangguh dulu. Baru-baru ini saya tanya semula, harga naik sampai RM 280.00. Alasannya banjir di Thailand. Masalah kalau macam ini.
Teringat saya pernah guna sistem operasi Ubuntu yang boleh boot dari thumb drive, saya pun mula Google cara terbaik untuk mengatasi masalah saya.
Laptop saya cuma ada 512MB RAM, tak sampai 1 G pun. Jika saya guna Linux versi Ubuntu perlahan sedikit. Ini adalah kerana Ubuntu sudah menjadi Sistem Operasi yang canggih, memerlukan ruang memori yang lebih besar untuk beroperasi. Ini tidak menyelesaikan masalah saya.
Pilihan yang ada ialah saya oleh guna Linux Puppy. Saya dengar kawan kata sistem operasi Linux Puppy sesuai untuk komputer lama.
Saya pun mula menggoogle Linux Puppy. Akhirnya saya dapat membina live CD Linux Puppy. Komputer boleh boot terus dari CD. Saya jenamakan life cd sebagai CD-Hayat. Saya terus jatuh cinta pandang pertama dengan Linux Puppy bila saya mula guna CD-Hayat ini. Pertama sebab ia sangat ringan.
Linux Puppy memuatkan semua aturcara ke RAM, menyebabkan proses menjadi sangat cepat. Aplikasi dapat dilancar dengan pantas.
Dengan CD-Hayat, laptop saya beroperasi dengan lancar, tanpa hard disk. Masalah saya selesai. Masalah baru nak sesuaikan diri dengan antaramuka Linux Puppy. Bukan masalah sangat pada saya. Pada pandangan saya, bila guna komputer kita mesti fleksibel. Tak boleh terikat sangat dengan Microsoft.
Apa yang membuatkan saya lebih gembira, CD-Hayat membuat capaian Internet dengan mudah boleh dilaksanakan. Tidak kira jika guna wifi atau kabel. Jika saya capai intenet dengan kabel UTP, cucuk saja terus dapat. Tak payah ubah apa-apa setting.
Kerja dengan dokumen saya guna Abi Word. Macam Microsoft Word 2003 dulu. Yang penting, bila nak save, save sebagai .doc. Tak ada masalah untuk buka semula fail menggunakan Microsoft Word. Saya juga boleh gunakan perisian Gnumeric untuk kerja-kerja hamparan elektonik. Gnumeric berfungsi sama macam Ms Excel.
Selepas menerima amaran tersebut, terus laptop saya tidak boleh boot. Saya ke kedai komputer, tanya harga hard disk baru. Masa tu harga RM160.00. Mahal, saya tangguh dulu. Baru-baru ini saya tanya semula, harga naik sampai RM 280.00. Alasannya banjir di Thailand. Masalah kalau macam ini.
Teringat saya pernah guna sistem operasi Ubuntu yang boleh boot dari thumb drive, saya pun mula Google cara terbaik untuk mengatasi masalah saya.
Laptop saya cuma ada 512MB RAM, tak sampai 1 G pun. Jika saya guna Linux versi Ubuntu perlahan sedikit. Ini adalah kerana Ubuntu sudah menjadi Sistem Operasi yang canggih, memerlukan ruang memori yang lebih besar untuk beroperasi. Ini tidak menyelesaikan masalah saya.
Pilihan yang ada ialah saya oleh guna Linux Puppy. Saya dengar kawan kata sistem operasi Linux Puppy sesuai untuk komputer lama.
Saya pun mula menggoogle Linux Puppy. Akhirnya saya dapat membina live CD Linux Puppy. Komputer boleh boot terus dari CD. Saya jenamakan life cd sebagai CD-Hayat. Saya terus jatuh cinta pandang pertama dengan Linux Puppy bila saya mula guna CD-Hayat ini. Pertama sebab ia sangat ringan.
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| Antaramuka desktop Linux Puppy |
Linux Puppy memuatkan semua aturcara ke RAM, menyebabkan proses menjadi sangat cepat. Aplikasi dapat dilancar dengan pantas.
Dengan CD-Hayat, laptop saya beroperasi dengan lancar, tanpa hard disk. Masalah saya selesai. Masalah baru nak sesuaikan diri dengan antaramuka Linux Puppy. Bukan masalah sangat pada saya. Pada pandangan saya, bila guna komputer kita mesti fleksibel. Tak boleh terikat sangat dengan Microsoft.
Apa yang membuatkan saya lebih gembira, CD-Hayat membuat capaian Internet dengan mudah boleh dilaksanakan. Tidak kira jika guna wifi atau kabel. Jika saya capai intenet dengan kabel UTP, cucuk saja terus dapat. Tak payah ubah apa-apa setting.
Kerja dengan dokumen saya guna Abi Word. Macam Microsoft Word 2003 dulu. Yang penting, bila nak save, save sebagai .doc. Tak ada masalah untuk buka semula fail menggunakan Microsoft Word. Saya juga boleh gunakan perisian Gnumeric untuk kerja-kerja hamparan elektonik. Gnumeric berfungsi sama macam Ms Excel.
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