Wednesday, January 17, 2007

In 2008,There's Will Be A School Of The Future Woh!!

The present generation of kids are sooo lucky.Come 2008,there will be a School Of The Future,believed to be in Pasir Ris.However I am a bit dissapointed when I read the details.Just by having Wi-Fi and tablet PCs a future school does not make.

MOE's Ideas

  • Smart card and tablet PC---students use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers, and even track the calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has wireless Internet access.
  • Interactive white boards--allow them to zoom in and out, write or draw, and link directly to the Internet.
  • Virtual reality laboratories--TBA
  • Software which assesses how quickly students learn a lesson. If they understand it, they can delve deeper into the subject. If not, they receive remedial help.

As you can plainly see,these are just today's technology.A true school of the future must have these

My Ideas

  • Robots instead of teachers,that have the patience and perserverance of Gandhi and Mother Theresa.These are known as the roboteacher.If the kids are too naughty,the roboteacher can emit laser beams to enforce discipline.
  • The classrooms would be made up of four plasma walls with no windows.If the roboteacher wants to teach about Paris,the four walls will show sceneries of Paris,where the student can see the Eifel tower or the Louvre in pure 3D,high definition glory.If the roboteacher wants to teach about the digestive system,the visual effects that's similar to the 3D cinemax can bring them through a journey into the human body.From the mouth to the rectum.Now that's holistic!!
  • Having choronosphere machines (sort of a time travel machine) as a tool to teach history.If a Malay roboteacher wants to teach about Hang Tuah for instance,he/she can bring the whole class back to the past,that is the Malacca sultanate empire circa 1400AD.
  • The pupils can download all the facts and figures directly into their brains by means of neurotechnology,thus eliminating the need for rote learning.

After all that's been said and (to be) done,I can't really guarantee that even with all these expensive and impressive infrastructure, all the kids will turn out to be President scholars.Maybe we shoulld just stick to pen and paper instead?

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