This video was made by college students about their difficult in learning in their universities. Very applicable to pre-tertiary schools.

Another one! This one on why technology is relevant in our younger generation's education.

Another video, this one on Web 2.0

An interesting video on the need to rethink schooling.

Picked up this book from Kino, a Chinese book translated from Japanese.

The author was sent to live with his maternal grandmother when he was in primary two. His father died shortly after WWII, and his mother had to work hard in Hiroshima to support him and his elder brother. The author took up running as suggested by his grandmother because everything else (Judo, Kendo) cost money. He wrote to his mum to come visit during the annual school sports day but his mother could not make it. Deyong is the name of the author in chinese translated from japanese. Bento (bian4 dang1) is like a japanese lunch box.  read more »

An SL Mathematics teacher marking the exam papers asked me: is it ok to draw the 3D axes in any orientation? To understand this question, this is how the textbooks we use always draw the 3D axes:

The textbook even describes this as "the X-axis is considered to come directly out of the page". So this teacher wanted to know whether to deduct marks for students who drew it like this:  read more »

Carbon DrawingI really enjoy my Visual Arts and Creativity course in NIE. Every week we meet to discuss arts and creativity in education, and then engage in creating some artwork. Here's a photo of my work this week. It's very fun. The lecturer placed this wooden model (lower torso only) in the centre of the class, then threw some cane wound into a circle on it. We were supposed to draw as we wish, and the point is not to draw something realistic, just our impression on the theme of movement. We did a few rounds form different angles, and we then had to pick the one we liked most to share. Haha, it was really fun just doodling away without a care in the world. Very therapeutic. A fellow classmate told me it looked like a chinese painting. I thought so too, perhaps it's because I learnt chinese painting before, that I created something which resembles a chinese painting? I think MOE should allocate time for all students (not just lower sec students) do art or music every week. It's very releasing. And no, it shouldn't be graded.