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spiderpigUgh. C for Lit. I am missing an inch of a mile to my B, and 20000 leagues to an A. I fucked up big time.
See, I told you writing that Tyrone was the sun = a D for LDJ. I hate it when I'm proven correctly, quite paradoxically. I wish I was proven wrong when I said, "I screwed up literature". What's worse is that the Atwood paper (while though not my favourite text, but my favourite paper to do... only because it has LDJ and Atwood at the same time...) got an effing 26 when my assignment got a 39. I guess I should have taken JTan seriously when she was certain that I couldn't reproduce the same results during exam conditions.
But one can hope, can't she?
There's this thing about me and lit. I can't perform during exams. At least, not to my expectations. Whatever A I get during assignments, whatever slick new insights that I concoct all just die before the presense of exams. To quote that horrible Irish, "Some people just cannot handle exams. Some people just cannot perform up to their standards!"
Yeah thanks for going for the jugular. Hit, punch, 1 2 3 4 5 6 - K. O.
I am sufferring from writer's block. I have a vague idea for a short story I want to write - but I'm completely lost on how to convey it, how to create my own writing style without sounding too long-winded - maintaining that old quality of verbosity I used to have. I had it, once - the ability to weave true stories with trickles of honey in them. Reflective of the books I read. Now I'm reduced to writing essays. My short stories are possessed by the worst kind of demon - pretentiousness. I cannot. Cannot what?
Cannot what!
Haha, just sent my WLAN essay. It's really like a badly done GP essay (much worse than my real GP essay) due to the whole technicality of it all.
DESCRIBE HOW THE USE OF WIRELESS NETWORKING CAN AFFECT
LEARNING AND EDUCATION, BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
Upon the advent of wireless networking, abbreviated as WLAN, we can all safely and assuredly agree that man has reached another pinnacle of success – how else could we now surf the web in search of information about Mozambique and Angola from the security of our bathroom! Wireless networking has been used to small scales of successes, with wireless hotspots in our friendly neighborhood McDonalds and other various locations scattered around the island, and yet have a longer way to go. Taking course from the 5 major goals and benefits that WLAN should have to offer, namely in providing not only convenience, affordability, mobility, productivity, basic installation ease and flexibility, but also being the basis upon which WLAN can work hand-in-hand with 3G cellular networks in promising higher standards of bandwidth, enhanced global mobility and an unparallel quality of service. This would ultimately pave the way for a more all encompassing experience that users can gain in the aspects of education and life-long learning.
Let’s talk about the now, the present, the current. As mentioned earlier, in its current context, WLAN has been probably underused especially in the area of education – LAN itself has not seen pervasive use in the education sector of Singapore with the limited number of computer workstations present in schools. However, some schools have already taken up the baton and installed wireless networks in their campuses, permitting students to access information anytime and anywhere. Of course this leads to a highly debatable subject on how such accessibility will affect students and teachers both positively and negatively. While the minority of schools do have the benefit of WLAN, most schools still have to connect to the main LAN system, wasting valuable amount of lesson time. Imagine a teacher in two different classrooms – one with WLAN and the other with an ordinary LAN connection – pressed for time to showcase web-based information to his class. Another travesty! He’s forgotten to bring his LAN cable! Sounds familiar? Here’s where WLAN comes in handy. The teacher can conveniently hook up to the school’s main transmitter and effectively conduct his class with minimal interruptions. Of course, that’s just the most basic way wireless networking can affect current learning practices.
Then again, detractors of WLAN do have a solid argument against installing nation-wide WLAN in schools. The question is how schools regulate the convenience of a free-for-all WLAN without imposing too many restrictions that could hamper and hinder true information seeking. Firewalls and systemic content filters will alleviate the problem to a certain extent, but as always schools using WLAN do have to bear in mind future consequences that might arise. This effect while posing as an obstacle, may actually in its own paradoxical way, educate the students and the school of effective management in a sense – both teachers and students can then work together in establishing a fair network; something that WLAN could even play a part in – by having chat sessions which can be broadcasted through school.
Essentially, WLAN in the current decades have a limited scope that can be developed on in the future. While students are presently able to ‘surf the net’ on our PDAs and laptops in school thanks to WLAN, another avenue of expanding ‘mobile-learning’ can be derived from WLAN. Since costly and potentially dangerous wirings are now not needed when installing WLAN, science labs are now more accessible to PDAs and laptops, enabling students to conduct scientific experiments safely. Similarly, because of its mobility and flexibility, students can venture outside the confines of classrooms and into the nearby vicinity of their campus where WLAN signals can still be received, allowing teachers to conduct an array of more vibrant lessons. Scientific equipment can be expediently attached to their now mobile and networked computers and thus immediate data collection can be done.
Other aspects of how WLAN can be applied to schools when teaching and learning are more applicable to the future. With the use of WLAN and Intel Centrino equipped tablet PCs, students can perhaps wander around school and seek inspiration for prose pieces during a literature class, subsequently transferring their polished works to their teachers turn network-transfers or e-mailing – the benefits of wireless networking.
The same set-up can be even used during art lessons, with sketches being submitted through the wireless interface, completely hassle free. Perhaps one could even foresee a highly possible future where, through the use of wireless networking, students can have an interactive learning process similar to that of popular computer games.
Students can even use their PDAs in the WLAN setting to instantaneously upload and download information of the latest books found in the library, book reviews and scan in the barcodes of books to formulate their own reading list for other students to peruse.
Using the basis of mass multi-player online role-playing games (MMPORGs), schools can use the different hotspots/wireless network routers as a ‘interaction point’ – students during a certain lesson would have to venture to a pre-configured router and upon entering the vicinity, answer a question or complete a task. The student could even have to cooperate with other users connected to the current network in a collaborative effort of solve the questions posed.
In lieu of the current World Cup fever, Math classes could even make use of the wireless network in such a way that teachers could broadcast snippets of matches where students can understand mathematic concepts through calculating the velocity and angle of which the soccer ball was directed! The possibilities are endless!
To conclude, wireless networking no doubt possesses a multitude of facets to be explored by the education sector. Instead of sticking to the traditional use of using the WLAN to access information, schools can employ the above mentioned, innovative ways to incorporate a more effective and interactive use of WLAN.
The last techie, Ministry endorsed essay competition I took part in taught me the lesson that these competitions don't look for writing style much - they focus on ideas and ideas alone. Or rather, they don't look at practicality much. If you suggest building a collapsible robot you win. If you be realistic and talk about something like WiFi used nation-wide, they'd ignore you. So I went for ludicrous ideas this time. All in a day's work I say.
See, I told you writing that Tyrone was the sun = a D for LDJ. I hate it when I'm proven correctly, quite paradoxically. I wish I was proven wrong when I said, "I screwed up literature". What's worse is that the Atwood paper (while though not my favourite text, but my favourite paper to do... only because it has LDJ and Atwood at the same time...) got an effing 26 when my assignment got a 39. I guess I should have taken JTan seriously when she was certain that I couldn't reproduce the same results during exam conditions.
But one can hope, can't she?
There's this thing about me and lit. I can't perform during exams. At least, not to my expectations. Whatever A I get during assignments, whatever slick new insights that I concoct all just die before the presense of exams. To quote that horrible Irish, "Some people just cannot handle exams. Some people just cannot perform up to their standards!"
Yeah thanks for going for the jugular. Hit, punch, 1 2 3 4 5 6 - K. O.
I am sufferring from writer's block. I have a vague idea for a short story I want to write - but I'm completely lost on how to convey it, how to create my own writing style without sounding too long-winded - maintaining that old quality of verbosity I used to have. I had it, once - the ability to weave true stories with trickles of honey in them. Reflective of the books I read. Now I'm reduced to writing essays. My short stories are possessed by the worst kind of demon - pretentiousness. I cannot. Cannot what?
Cannot what!
Haha, just sent my WLAN essay. It's really like a badly done GP essay (much worse than my real GP essay) due to the whole technicality of it all.
DESCRIBE HOW THE USE OF WIRELESS NETWORKING CAN AFFECT
LEARNING AND EDUCATION, BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
Upon the advent of wireless networking, abbreviated as WLAN, we can all safely and assuredly agree that man has reached another pinnacle of success – how else could we now surf the web in search of information about Mozambique and Angola from the security of our bathroom! Wireless networking has been used to small scales of successes, with wireless hotspots in our friendly neighborhood McDonalds and other various locations scattered around the island, and yet have a longer way to go. Taking course from the 5 major goals and benefits that WLAN should have to offer, namely in providing not only convenience, affordability, mobility, productivity, basic installation ease and flexibility, but also being the basis upon which WLAN can work hand-in-hand with 3G cellular networks in promising higher standards of bandwidth, enhanced global mobility and an unparallel quality of service. This would ultimately pave the way for a more all encompassing experience that users can gain in the aspects of education and life-long learning.
Let’s talk about the now, the present, the current. As mentioned earlier, in its current context, WLAN has been probably underused especially in the area of education – LAN itself has not seen pervasive use in the education sector of Singapore with the limited number of computer workstations present in schools. However, some schools have already taken up the baton and installed wireless networks in their campuses, permitting students to access information anytime and anywhere. Of course this leads to a highly debatable subject on how such accessibility will affect students and teachers both positively and negatively. While the minority of schools do have the benefit of WLAN, most schools still have to connect to the main LAN system, wasting valuable amount of lesson time. Imagine a teacher in two different classrooms – one with WLAN and the other with an ordinary LAN connection – pressed for time to showcase web-based information to his class. Another travesty! He’s forgotten to bring his LAN cable! Sounds familiar? Here’s where WLAN comes in handy. The teacher can conveniently hook up to the school’s main transmitter and effectively conduct his class with minimal interruptions. Of course, that’s just the most basic way wireless networking can affect current learning practices.
Then again, detractors of WLAN do have a solid argument against installing nation-wide WLAN in schools. The question is how schools regulate the convenience of a free-for-all WLAN without imposing too many restrictions that could hamper and hinder true information seeking. Firewalls and systemic content filters will alleviate the problem to a certain extent, but as always schools using WLAN do have to bear in mind future consequences that might arise. This effect while posing as an obstacle, may actually in its own paradoxical way, educate the students and the school of effective management in a sense – both teachers and students can then work together in establishing a fair network; something that WLAN could even play a part in – by having chat sessions which can be broadcasted through school.
Essentially, WLAN in the current decades have a limited scope that can be developed on in the future. While students are presently able to ‘surf the net’ on our PDAs and laptops in school thanks to WLAN, another avenue of expanding ‘mobile-learning’ can be derived from WLAN. Since costly and potentially dangerous wirings are now not needed when installing WLAN, science labs are now more accessible to PDAs and laptops, enabling students to conduct scientific experiments safely. Similarly, because of its mobility and flexibility, students can venture outside the confines of classrooms and into the nearby vicinity of their campus where WLAN signals can still be received, allowing teachers to conduct an array of more vibrant lessons. Scientific equipment can be expediently attached to their now mobile and networked computers and thus immediate data collection can be done.
Other aspects of how WLAN can be applied to schools when teaching and learning are more applicable to the future. With the use of WLAN and Intel Centrino equipped tablet PCs, students can perhaps wander around school and seek inspiration for prose pieces during a literature class, subsequently transferring their polished works to their teachers turn network-transfers or e-mailing – the benefits of wireless networking.
The same set-up can be even used during art lessons, with sketches being submitted through the wireless interface, completely hassle free. Perhaps one could even foresee a highly possible future where, through the use of wireless networking, students can have an interactive learning process similar to that of popular computer games.
Students can even use their PDAs in the WLAN setting to instantaneously upload and download information of the latest books found in the library, book reviews and scan in the barcodes of books to formulate their own reading list for other students to peruse.
Using the basis of mass multi-player online role-playing games (MMPORGs), schools can use the different hotspots/wireless network routers as a ‘interaction point’ – students during a certain lesson would have to venture to a pre-configured router and upon entering the vicinity, answer a question or complete a task. The student could even have to cooperate with other users connected to the current network in a collaborative effort of solve the questions posed.
In lieu of the current World Cup fever, Math classes could even make use of the wireless network in such a way that teachers could broadcast snippets of matches where students can understand mathematic concepts through calculating the velocity and angle of which the soccer ball was directed! The possibilities are endless!
To conclude, wireless networking no doubt possesses a multitude of facets to be explored by the education sector. Instead of sticking to the traditional use of using the WLAN to access information, schools can employ the above mentioned, innovative ways to incorporate a more effective and interactive use of WLAN.
The last techie, Ministry endorsed essay competition I took part in taught me the lesson that these competitions don't look for writing style much - they focus on ideas and ideas alone. Or rather, they don't look at practicality much. If you suggest building a collapsible robot you win. If you be realistic and talk about something like WiFi used nation-wide, they'd ignore you. So I went for ludicrous ideas this time. All in a day's work I say.
