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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Apple Macbook Scores Big I think apple just scored big with our education system here. Finally some progress. Though why the random checks? I wonder how many of the students are grumbling over that. Will they be reprimanded for blogging, using Facebook or eBay excessively? I wonder. Singapore’s 21st century school of the future Imagine a classroom where keyboards, laptops and touchscreen monitors have replaced traditional pen, paper and chalkboard. At Maris Stella High School, this is no dream. Sitting on a quiet hill along Mount Vernon Road, the school is unlike any other in Singapore. For one, it makes it compulsory for all 1,500 of its students — all the way from Sec. One to Sec. Four from next year onwards – to purchase an Apple MacBook, which will be used for school assignments and projects. That’s not all. The school’s ground-breaking ”1:1 Learning Programme” requires all teachers to conduct multi-touch interactive lessons using Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Samsung’s flatscreen TVs. The school embraces technology on all fronts. Fewer worksheets are given out to students. Instead, teachers post classwork and homework assignments on the Studywiz e-learning portal, and students access them via their MacBook while in school or at home. Assignments are done in various forms of software — Microsoft Office for Mac (for creating documents) or GarageBand (for making podcasts) — depending on the teacher’s requirement. Teachers actively use Google Docs to create forms for taking attendance during CCA meetings. Each student and teacher has their individual Maris Stella Google Mail address, and teachers can send e-mails to a specific group of students — class, level, CCA or the entire school. Launched in September 2009, the school’s ”21st century classroom” is equipped with infrared LED light pens, remote controls of the popular Nintendo Wii gaming console, and Samsung’s flatscreen TVs, which act as a multi-touch whiteboard. The classroom can house two classes at one time. Students from disadvantaged families who cannot afford the MacBook will be rendered financial assistance and provisions will be made for by the school (an entry level MacBook on the Apple online store costs $1,488 while the higher-end MacBook Pro costs anywhere between S$1,788 to $3,398). The school even has its own Apple Service Centre situated within its grounds in case students encounter any hardware or software issues with their MacBook. To discourage the unrestricted use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter during school time, every student has a unique username and password to the school’s wireless network. As such, the school authorities can track down which websites have been visited. Random checks are also conducted and teachers often use Apple Remote Desktop to monitor student internet activity. |
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