the weekend is here!

YEA~ baby. Tomorrow's public holiday plus some days off gives me a 6-day weekend! Now.. how am I going to spend it??? Give me some ideas!

Yesterday I was surfing around and I found this novel (to me) way of teaching kids how to write essays. It's so amazingly simple I wonder I've never been taught this way in school!

Teachers have broken down in my class so many times (we weren't even the worst around), we got tired of acting sorry and quiet, and getting our class rep to run after the teacher. A recurrent jeremiad is the whopping stack of homework they have to assess. I'm guessing that this gives them more homework, depriving them of their life. When they erase the line between work and rest, the joys and pains of teaching becomes a blur and what might have once been sufficiently enjoyable becomes a daily torture after the first period with the nasty class.

SO. I'm suggesting, for the primary to pre-U level, that they farm out the work which don't really need the teacher to do personally to a programme, leaving them more time for work that don't evoke binary answers. If a computer does it, the teacher can see the mistakes and strengths of the class in a chart, and can have access to each individual students performance according to topics. Which is basically what teachers do when they assess the homework personally, right?

Assuming that kids don't stop receiving essay assignments and suddenly find that all their homework are MCQs, this might actually shear off the lethal tumour which was once the educators's time. And the workplace suddenly becomes a garden burgeoning with creativity and a deeper insight into the mind and the desire to learn, which for some of us was being murdered slowly and stealthily since the day we had to ace all our exams.

another random post

Hey guys! Sorry for slacking on this blog. You know how sometimes when you face a giamongus mountain it makes you just wanna slack at the foot of the mountain, instead of climbing it as you planned? Yup that's me now when it comes to SO many things.. For example, one mountain is improving my sight-reading! =(

While googling for how to run a happening youth camp (ahhh!!), I suddenly remembered a friend who was telling me that he feels people in church can get so fake sometimes, and he didn't see any value of being in a community who was so judgmental of him.

Let's assume that he's not hypersensitive. That led me to remember also the old notion of church being a collective of imperfect people (as popularized by switchfoot). While some of us are frowning upon another fellow Christian for not doing the right things, we are all equally in need of help to be a better person, to better the world in all its dichotomy.

I don't know if this short discussion can be called a discussion (my brain's busy in the alimetary department). But anyway I got to go now. I'll end off with a fun fact!

After years of study techniques workshops my schools made me attend, I knew that the number of hours you spend sleeping are as important as those you spend studying, but not why. But I was convinced only after finding out that getting a good night of sleep after a long day of learning helps consolidate memory formation of the prior day.

Tata!