Self Initiated Post:Hwa Chong Future School Program

Self Initiated Post:Hwa Chong Future School Program

What i feel about the Hwa Chong Future School Program:

Firstly, the future school program is basically a new approach to learning whereby students and teachers alike have to use a PC to access the web, where they can do and submit the assignments digitally. There are many benefits to this system:

(Note: this is just my opinion)

- In this modern society, more and more things are digital, and now much of our lives are spent in front of the computer ( facebook, games, research), in a way the future school program keeps up with the modern times and allows students to feel more at home

- Research can be carried out very easily online, and students will be able to access information very easily and is more efficient compared to asking peers or teachers to clarify doubts

- There are many great tools which are available online, for example google docs which allows an entire class to view a document at the same time and each student is able to individually edit the documents (eg. highlight good points) on the fly as well, allowing the class to learn together

Also , bubbl.us is a great free site where one can create colourful mind maps, great for organising your thoughts and creating notes

- Almost everything is streamlined, it is easier to multi task, share documents (eg. hotmail) and other things which would normally take much normal to do without computers, and the aforementioned reasons

However, it is not without its shortfalls. In school, the only way to access the internet is through the School's wifi, which sometimes can be incredibly slow.( Especially when an entire class tries to access the same website, the page can be really slow to load) Also, with access to the computer, students are able to access any games or websites such as facebook. Prime examples would be games such as Dota, battleon, mousehunt, farmville and minecraft. These would distract the students and decrease their productivity at times, an issue that has to be tackled for future school to be truly efficient and effective.