Today is the second day I attend the class of PMEY3104 Integration of Technology in Primary Science Teaching. The class is held at level 3, Block A, Multimedia Lab. Before Professor Dr.Rohaida Mohd. Saat start the lesson, she discuss and conform about the date due all the assignments for this subject. The details are in the following table.
ASSIGNMENT | TITLE | DATE DUE |
1 | Blogging for course reflection (5%) | ON-GOING |
2 | Critical review of a journal article (Individual work, 15%) | 24 AUGUST 2010 |
3 | Retrieved and Management of information (group work,15%) | 28 SEPTEMBER 2010 |
4 | Development of simple instructional materials (group work, 25%) | 19 OCKTOBER 2010 |
Professor also reminds us about the Blog. She asked us to post our URL Blog at Spectrum with full name and matrix no. This will help her to check our progress of Blog. At the moment, there are only few of us posted the URL of Blog. So friends, please don’t forget to post by this week!
Professor Dr.Rohaida Mohd. Saat also show us a sample of research article. The title, authors and summary of the sample is in the following box
Educational Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2001 TITLE: Using Video Analysis or Data loggers During Practical Work in First Year Physics AUTHORS: SUSAN RODRIGUES Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052 Australia JON PEARCE & MICHELLE LIVETT School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052 Australia SUMMARY: Information communication technologies are rapidly finding a niche in practical work in science laboratories in both schools and tertiary institutions. This paper reports on a project investigating students’ learning processes when video analysis and data logging practical work were used in a Ž first-year undergraduate physics course. Student volunteers were group interviewed. Preliminary Ž findings suggest that students were motivated by the tasks and perceived that the tasks helped them understand their physics concepts. The manual movement of the cart and the freeze-frame element of the video analysis were viewed positively by the students. Further analysis indicates that students used elements of the video analysis and data logging practical work to reinforce already existing ideas rather than challenge the robustness of their existing ideas. SOURCE: http://spectrum.um.edu.my/main/file.php/8797/Example_of_journal_article/paper_on_data_loggers.pdf |
Professor further explains that this research article reports on a project investigating students’ learning processes when video analysis and data logging practical work were used in a first-year undergraduate physics course. I never heard video analysis or data loggers before. According to Professor, it is an effective tool to collect data efficiently, simple, safe, and fast compare to traditional equipment. She also reminds us to find a research article for our coming assignment-CRITICAL REVIEW OF A JOURNAL ARTICLE (INDIVIDUAL work) (15%).
Nex Professor Dr.Rohaida Mohd. Saat starts the lesson entitled Brief History of the use of Technology. The summary of the slides are in the following table.
Brief History of the use of Technology | |
SLIDE | SUMMARY/KEY IDEAS |
1 | Brief history of the use of technology in 1468 till 20th. |
2 | Computers (Hardware) |
3 | Computers (Software) |
4 | Common Terminologies |
5 | Common Terminologies |
The power point you can check at:http://spectrum.um.edu.my/main/course/view.php?id=8797
I gather a lot of information regarding computers. At first I get to know how technology at early year has developed tremendously till 20th century era where humans are able to create:
Artificial Intelligence
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Moreover, I also learn about the specific name for components /things related to hardware and software of computers. This ultimately helps me to differentiate between hardware and software even more clearly. In addition I also learn about common terminologies in computer like CPU, Bit, Bytes, etc.
There are 3 terminologies that new for me which are FTP, Browser cookie and RSS.
TERMINOLOGY FUNCTION FTP File Transfer Protocol; transfers file from computers to webservers; need FTP program Browser cookie packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser, used for user authentication, user tracking, and maintaining user-specific information RSS a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works-such as blog entries
After the lesson ends, Professor Dr.Rohaida Mohd Saat asks us to gather information about Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality in science education. We have to work in a group and there are four groups in total. We also need to simplify the information and put it in a power point presentation. We only given about 30 minutes to complete this task.
My group (Group 2) which consist of me myself Nizam,Marhani,Nazrul,Rafidah and Hafizzudin manage to get the information and make the power point about Artificial Intelligence. After 30 minutes we are the first group to present information about artificial intelligence. It is followed by Group 1, Group 3 and Group 4.
Frankly speaking, I never come across the terminology of Artificial Intelligence or Virtual Reality. However, I learn and gather new information about it through the presentation session.
In conclusion, today’s lesson is interesting as I gather new information and details about the use of technology. This information has successfully broadened my mind about the discovery of human being in technology that makes our life easy and wonderful!
I LOVE TECHNOLOGY!
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