Announcement

Hello everyone!

Tomorrow is the last session of our Second Life meeting.

Date: 27 November 2012
Time - 12:00nn to 1:00pm (Singapore Time)
         - 1:00pm to 2:00pm (Korea Time)

Venue - Let's all gather at the VLC House first.

Hope to see you all! :D

20 November 2012 - Group 2

Elaine, Jimmy, Young and I were present for this session.
We talked more about bullying in schools.
Bullying situations can range from the obvious to the unseen ones.

Jimmy brought up the topic of organized gangs in schools and these gangs provide memberships and protection. Although school bullying and organized crimes by secondary school students are not prevalent in Singapore, we do have staring incidents leading to fights and deaths among teenagers.

Elaine mentioned that teen gangs do exist in secondary schools in Korea as well. These gangs do commit crimes like stealing others' money out of schools and may threaten or physically hurt others while doing so.

We feel that through campaigns and educational workshops on awareness of bullying, the acts of bullying can be reduced or prevented. Young mentioned that it is important for bystanders or victims to report school bullying to teachers or an adult, so that the problem can be resolved and handled.

Jimmy came up with an interesting question: Can someone be born a bully?
He feels that some people are born with a disposition that may be more aggressive and that nature makes up 60% of a person's character and 40% is due to nurture.

Elaine and I thought it will be the opposite as we feel that no one is born to be a bully as their actions can be prevented, and I  personally feel that one is guided by moral values that act as gatekeeper for one's actions.

The discussion ended at this point as the time was up.

Hope to see you all for the final session next Tuesday! :D

2012.11.20 Tuesday

2012.11.20.Tuesday

Today there were Liz, ebkim, adrianna (jaehoo), Helen (hailunhong), Moonhee, and KB (gblee0907) in group 1.

We had 3 things to do today.

1) Reviewing our respective group report posted on Google doc

2) Identifying the issues that need further discussion and resolve them collaboratively

3) Within our groups, we will decide who will contribute to the specific parts of the report

- in the report, there are sub-areas (e.g., problems, solutions)

We had a hard time getting into the document.:(

 But as soon as we got in, we started editing the document.

 Since we had little time left, we decided on which parts to take at the end of today’s meeting.

Moonhee – part 1

KB & Eunbi – part 2

Adrianna – part 3

Next meeting is going to be the last one for this semester so I hope everybody to come!

See you all next tuesday ! :)

Announcement

Second Life Meeting Schedule
 

Date: 20 November 2012
Time - 12:00nn to 1:00pm (Singapore Time)
         - 1:00pm to 2:00pm (Korea Time)

Venue - Let's all gather at the VLC House first.

See you all! :D

Hi, all

We had great time to decide our questions and discuss them in the Second Life :)

Based on our discussions, two group reports were made in Google Docs.

Group1: https://goo.gl/XGieS

Group2: https://goo.gl/R57Yp

We have two more sessions (20 and 27 Nov). It would be great if we collaboratively make group reports and share them at the last meeting. 

The Google documents are like MS-Word or Hangul, but you do not need to click on a save button because your writing will be automatically saved. You can revise the reports in the Internet. Please feel free to add your thoughts and put your name and date at the end of a paragraph or a sentence. You can also add pictures and videos. However, you may not want to delete what others have written in the shared document. 

We will talk about the group report and revise it together next week :) 

Young

Announcement

Hello everyone!

This is a reminder that there is no Second Life meeting this Tuesday (13 November 2012) as it is a public holiday in Singapore for the celebration of Deepavali.

Thank you!

30/10/12 session

Group members: Liz, Adrianna, KB, Yjaylol, Wove

Topic:
1) Identify and define a problem or a question about classroom practices, which you would want to investigate more (what problem or question does your group want to specifically explore?).  The problem should be important in both Korea and Singapore, and it should be related to classroom practices.
2) Discuss the reasons, consequences, relevant conditions, pedagogical interventions, etc. about the selected problem or question.

The session focus follows up with the previous session. As we have discussed on the topic “group work” during the previous session, Liz mention on how to form groups in a classroom settings. Kb mentions that usually in Korea, students are grouped according to number or where they sit. Adrianna agrees with KB and that teachers often get students to turn around and just form a group with the peers around them. Yjaylol follow on by saying that sometimes they group the class into the ‘boys’ group and ‘girls’ group. Wove then mentions that in Singapore, usually groupings are arranged according to their learning abilities with the stronger peers guiding the weaker peers. Different ability learners are present in each group which eliminates the possibility of them having low self-esteem. The teacher usually plans the groupings beforehand and their seats are allocated according to their grouping. Groupings may change every 3 to 4 months or each year depending on the respective teacher. Kb further question on how ability is measured in Singapore, Liz explained that it is usually measured by the student’s grades which lead to another question on what if no data of students are present. Wove thinks that it will be based on the teacher’s judgement for such cases and primary 1 is taken by the senior/experienced teachers.

Liz continues the discussion by mentioning if there is any pedagogical direction for group work and if these theories are relevant to group work in primary school. The group then decided that a possible problem is how can group work be carried out in the primary school classroom? Adrianna and Yjaylol think that students should be grouped according to their learning abilities and a variety kind of practices is needed to do group work with young children. As time was running out, the discussion became the homework of the session and a further discussion will continue in the following week. 

Announcement

Second Life Meeting Schedule
Date: 6 November 2012
Time - 12:00nn to 1:00pm (Singapore Time)
         - 1:00pm to 2:00pm (Korea Time)

Venue - Let's all gather at the VLC House first.

See you all! :D 

School Bullying in Korea

In our group, we posed a question, "How can teachers reduce school bullying in a classroom?" I found a video clip that shows how much school bullying is serious in Korea.

Elementary school students shared their thoughts about school bullying.

This video shows school bullying situations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTy4ciH4mo&feature=related

Announcement

 

Hello!

This is a reminder for the Second Life meeting tomorrow.

Date: 30 October 2012
Time - 12:00nn to 1:00pm (Singapore Time)
         - 1:00pm to 2:00pm (Korea Time)

Venue - Let's all gather at the VLC House first.

See you all! :D