The Types of Learners

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Logo Baru Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia

RASIONAL 

Logo ini direka mengunakan huruf ‘Alif’ sebagai konsep teras. Pendekatan mengunakan huruf atau typography adalah berdasarkan pengertian bahawa manusia yang pada masa hidupnya, berada pada jalan yang lurus sebagaimana huruf ‘Alif’ itu. Alif juga membawa pengertian ILMU kerana Allah mengangkat orang-orang yang beriman dan orang-orang yang diberi ilmu dengan beberapa darjat. Ilmu juga diklasifikasikan sebagai pengetahuan atau kepandaian yang merangkumi semua bidang yakni duniawi mahupun ukhrawi. Ilmu juga di takrifkan sebagai pemindahan roh atau jiwa daripada kegelapan kepada kecerahan dan sebagai suatu kebenaran dan keyakinan. Logo ini menggunakan dua ‘P’ dan dua ‘Alif’ melambangkan dua peringkat pendidikan iaitu Sistem Sekolah dan Sistem Pengajian Tinggi. Hurup ‘P’ yang bertingkat ke arah Alif melambangkan tahap-tahap kecemerlangan pendidikan Malaysia. Bentuk Bulat melambangkan Malaysia sebagai pusat pendidikan yang bersifat global. Dari segi warna, biru bermaksud profesionalisma dalam sistem pendidikan negara. Kuning keemasan melambangkan kecemerlangan. Putih melambangkan sistem pendidikan yang bermutu tinggi dan membentuk insan yang berkualiti dan berilmu mulia.

Rekabentuk oleh Prof. Dato’ Dr Ahmad Zainuddin & Mohd Faizal Ahmad (Majlis Rekabentuk Malaysia)

Today in 2006

Apple New Section for Education

Apple just update their web with new Education section.

We believe that technology has the power to transform the classroom. It can pave new ways of thinking. New ways of sparking ideas. Yet the foundation never changes: A dedication to learning that’s always been part of our DNA. We’ve been proud to work alongside educators and students to reinvent what it means to teach and learn. And together we’re doing things we never thought possible.

http://www.apple.com/education/

Ku Li: Sistem pendidikan negara gagal

Baca komen Kuli tentang pendidikan negara:

http://www.astroawani.com/news/show/ku-li-sistem-pendidikan-negara-gagal-17799

Setuju negara kita perlukan revolusi pendidikan yang drastik, lebih ramai perlu tambil untuk bersama-sama memperbaiki labu yang telah rosak ini. Ibu bapa, golongan pendidik dan pelajar sudah bosan dengan sistem yang sama, terlalu banyak penyelarasan, dan perubahan yang tidak membina. Lebih autonomi perlu diberi kepada tadika, sekolah dan institusi pengajian tinggi untuk menentukan kaedah terbaik untuk demografik pelajar yang pelbagai. Beri peranan pada golongan lebih muda dalam pentadbiran. Cabar golongan ini.

Malaysian school students, teachers and parents to get Google Chromebook from the Ministry of Education

Today (Apr 11, 2013) the country of Malaysia is going a step further by adopting Google Apps for 10 million students, teachers and parents. As part of this initiative they are also deploying Chromebooks to primary and secondary schools nationwide. These efforts to integrate the web are a central part of a national plan (PDF) to reform its educational system. 

Source: Google Official Blog.

See if this really going to be happen.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On itsfoundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainablehuman development. --Kofi Annan

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Interesting infographic on distance learning and virtual learning environment

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The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Dr. Howard Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University, developed a theory called Multiple Intelligences. The theory suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, which is based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited.

Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. Here’s a brief summary of these eight intelligences:

1. Linguistic Intelligence (Word Smart): This type of intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically; and language as a means to remember information. Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence.
2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (Number/Reasoning Smart): This type consists of the capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Gardner’s words, it entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking.
3. Musical Intelligence (Music Smart): This type involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms.
4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Body Smart): This type entails the potential of using one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.
5. Spatial Intelligence (Picture Smart): This type involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas.
6. Interpersonal Intelligence (People Smart): This type is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others. Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counsellors all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence (Self Smart): This type entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations.
8. Naturalist Intelligence (Nature Smart): This type enables human beings to recognize, categorize and draw upon certain features of the environment. A number of schools in North America have looked to structure curricula according to these intelligences, and to design classrooms and even whole schools to reflect the understandings that Howard Gardner developed. It takes a commitment though from school boards, administrators and teachers to put something like this into practice.

Found this theory from lifehack.com post: The Secret to Helping Your Child Excel in School and in Life.

Old Versus New Assumptions About Learning (Grabinger, 1996) #infographic

Saja2 test buat infographic pakai Photoshop. Simple2 je..

Lahirnya Ibnu Khaldun

Google doodle ini adalah tribute kepada ulangtahun kelahiran Ibnu Khaldun semalam (May 27, 1332) iaitu 679 tahun yang lalu, Google doodle ini hanya ditayangkan di negara middle east atau timur tengah, tidak menyeluruh kepada semua negara-negara Islam, atau mungkin Google tidak menganggap Malaysia adalah negara Islam? Kepada yang tidak mengenali tokoh agung ini, Ibnu Khaldun merupakan seorang pengkaji dan menguasai ilmu sejarah dan sosiologi tamadun manusia terutamanya tamadun Islam. Keluarganya berasal dari Hadramut, Yemen sebuah negara Islam yang sedang bergolak sekarang, beliau dilahirkan di Tunisia pada Ramadhan 1, 732 (May 27, 1332). Beliau menjadi ikutan kepada pengkaji terkemudian, karyanya banyak dirujuk dimana-mana.

Malaysian IPTA & IPTS website ranking according to Webometrics

Malaysian IPTA & IPTS website ranking according to Webometrics:

If you think the Alexa.com and bizinformation.org/my/ ranking of local IPTAs as published in this blog previously is superficial as it only gathers the number of hits (or popularity) of the websites, then this Webometrics ranking will give you a more balanced answer to whatever needs your curiosity might demand.

The Webometrics is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It is also called the Ranking Web of World Universities.

Since 2004, the Ranking Web is published twice a year (January and July), covering more than 20,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. Its intention is to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities.

For more clarification regarding the motivations of the Ranking or the methodology, please read the FAQ.

As stated in its website, the original aim of the Ranking is to promote Web publication.

Therefore, if an institution's web performance is below the expected position (according to their academic excellence), university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their electronic publications.

Listed below is the 16 top ranking Malaysian IPTA and IPTS according to webometrics as gathered on 9 December 2010.


No 1. Universiti Sains Malaysia
No. 9 in South East Asia, No.58 in Asia and No.585 in world ranking

No.2. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
No. 13 in South East Asia, No.77 in Asia and No.758 in world ranking

No.3. Universiti Putra Malaysia
No. 14 in South East Asia, No.81 in Asia and No.773 in world ranking

No.4. University of Malaya
No. 18 in South East Asia, No.96 in Asia and No.850 in world ranking

No.5. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
No. 20 in South East Asia and No.913 in world ranking

No.6. Universiti Teknologi Mara
No.29 in South East Asia and No.1246 in world ranking

No.7 International Islamic University Malaysia
No. 32 in South East Asia and No.1400 in world ranking

No. 8 Multimedia University
No. 33 in South East Asia and No.1403 in world ranking

No. 9 Universiti Utara Malaysia
No. 40 in South East Asia and No.1534 in world ranking

No.10 Universiti Malaysia Perlis
No. 44 in South East Asia and No.1629 in world ranking

No.11 Universiti Teknologi Petronas
No. 67 in South East Asia and No.2304 in world ranking

No.12 Universiti Tenaga Nasional
No. 72 in South East Asia and No.2361 in world ranking

No.13 University of Nottingham Malaysia
No. 80 in South East Asia and No.2643 in world ranking

No.14 Universiti Malaysia Sabah
No. 88 in South East Asia and No.2825 in world ranking

No.15 Universiti Malaysia Pahang
No. 89 in South East Asia and No.2840 in world ranking

No.16 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
No. 94 in South East Asia and No.2983 in world ranking

USM buka kampus di India

myMetro | USM bakal buka kampus di India:

KOTA BHARU: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) bakal menempa nama di peringkat global apabila merancang membuka sebuah kampus di India dengan pengambilan sulung dijangka Julai ini.

Naib Canselornya, Prof Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abd Razak, berkata universiti dikenali sebagai Jawaharlal Nehru Medical University Belgaum itu menawarkan bidang pengajian perubatan.

Katanya, tawaran membuka kampus cawangan terbaru itu selepas pihaknya menerima pelawaan kerajaan India bagi menampung keperluan pelajar Malaysia dan antarabangsa yang berminat dalam bidang perubatan.


“Kami berbangga dengan pelawaan terbabit kerana sejak USM ditubuhkan, akhirnya kami diberi peluang untuk mengendalikan kampus perubatan baru yang turut mengambil kakitangan negara India.


“Segala kemudahan bagi menyediakan prasarana untuk kampus USM yang akan ditempatkan di Jawaharlal Nehru Medical University diuruskan pihak negara berkenaan dan kita gunakan sepenuhnya kurikulum bersepadu yang diguna pakai USM,” katanya.


Dzulkifli berkata demikian selepas berucap pada Konvensyen Kualiti Kampus Kesihatan USM Kubang Kerian, di sini, semalam.

Pada majlis itu, USM Kampus Kesihatan Kubang Kerian menerima anugerah sijil MS 9001:2008 selain penyampaian hadiah Kumpulan Inovasi dan Kreatif (KIK) dan pertandingan kualiti peringkat kampus berkenaan.

P/s: cool!

Great teacher is a great artist

Typography hari ini. Pagi yang tak tau nk buat apa ni, x de kerja nk buat, buatlah benda2 ngarut2 mcm ni, best jugak pakai font Cambria ni..

Untk pengetahuan John Steinbeck ni seorang penulis yang terkemuka suatu masa dahula era 50-60an, pernah dapat noble prize dalam literature.

Very cool ABC3D book (video)

Where to buy this amazing book? Link.

Study says, early whale had leg

An early whale had large back legs, a tail like a dog's, and a hip-wiggling swimming style, according to a new fossil study.

The discovery helps pinpoint the advent of "modern" whale flukes to between 38 and 40 million years ago, scientists say.

Flukes are the two wide, flat triangular lobes on a whale's back end and are made of skin and connective tissue, with bones in the middle.

Scientists have known whales evolved from semiaquatic, four-footed creatures with long, thin tails to today's fully aquatic mammals with fluked tails, no back legs, and flippers instead of front legs. link

25 Simple Tips to Improve Your Health and Fitness

25 Simple Tips to Improve Your Health and Fitness | Lyved |

1. Diets are evil

Because of their temporary nature, diets don’t work. The people who do lose weight end up gaining it back again once they come off the diet. Instead of dieting, try to change your lifestyle. The changes you make to the way you eat should be sustainable for the rest of your life.


2. Get rid of the junk food

The easiest way to ensure that you don’t eat the food you shouldn’t is to make sure it isn’t available. Go through your fridge and toss out all the junk food. Next time you go grocery shopping, make sure that you don’t buy more.


3. Make use of healthy snacks

Having a snack between your meals is a good idea – as long as they’re healthy. Stock up on fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds. Have them readily available for whenever you might feel hungry. This means both at home and at the office.


4. All carbs are not created equal

While carbohydrates are a necessary part of your diet, there are some that do more damage than good. Avoid white carbs wherever possible and switch to the whole-grain alternatives.


5. Kill the caffeine addiction

Whether it’s coffee or soft drinks, caffeine is a drug. It’s a legal drug but a drug nonetheless. If you feel the need for a warm drink, choose an herbal tea instead.


6. Don’t forget the fat

Although trans-fats and the like should be avoided, you need to consume sufficient essential fatty acids. Make sure you are getting your omega-3 and omega-6 fats. These can be found in flax oil, nuts, and seeds.


7. Water is your friend

Your body is made up mostly of water. The problem is most people walk around dehydrated. If you are feeling thirsty, it’s too late: you are already dehydrated. Make sure to drink half your body weight in ounces every day. That means if you weigh 200 pounds, you need to be drinking 100 ounces of water each day.


8. Breathe deeply

Oxygen is more important than water for your health. You can survive days without water but only minutes without oxygen. Most people today have very shallow breathing and are not getting enough air. Breathe deeply from your diaphragm to ensure your cells are well oxygenated.


9. Eat your veggies

Vegetables are rich in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) that are essential to your health. Plus they have a cleansing effect on your body because of their alkaline pH.


10. Buy organic

Much of the commercial produce available today is devoid of nutritional value due to the depleted soil used in the industrial farming process. Organic produce also has the benefit of tasting a lot better. It might be more expensive but the benefit is well worth it.


11. Get friends that live healthy

The ongoing interaction with people who have the health you desire will be a positive influence on you. It is far easier to make the transition to healthy living when you have the social support.


12. Find healthy foods you enjoy

Just because you are eating healthy does not mean you need to suffer eating foods you hate. Look for healthy foods you enjoy and eat them more often. Find recipes online that are both healthy and enjoyable.


13. Take your lunch to work

Not only will brown bagging your lunch save you some money, it will help you avoid eating unhealthy foods for lunch. Take the extra time to make your lunch in the morning or make extra for dinner and eat the leftovers.


14. Eat out intelligently

For the restaurants that you visit frequently, find out the menu choices that are healthy options. This way, you can enjoy going out without jeopardizing your health.


15. Give yourself a cheat meal

Every now and then, it’s okay to indulge in something you know that it is not good for you but you enjoy. You shouldn’t deprive yourself. Just make sure that this only happens from time to time.


16. Sleep deeply

Get a good night’s rest every evening. Sleep in a quiet room that is dark for the appropriate amount of time for you. Most people have heard that you need 8 hours of sleep for proper health. In my experience, the amount of sleep I need varies with my eating habits and exercise. When I am living in a healthy manner, I find I feel fully energized with about 6 hours of sleep. Find the amount of sleep that is right for you.


17. Schedule exercise

Make your workout an important appointment for yourself. Schedule it at a specific time and place. Make it as important to you as a business meeting or doctor’s appointment.


18. Get a workout buddy

Sometimes your motivation to exercise wanes. When you have a partner that pushes you, it is far easier to take action. Working out with a friend also tends to make it a lot more fun.


19. Exercise aerobically

Cardiovascular exercise helps to burn fat and raises your metabolism. It also strengthens your heart and lungs. Do at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week.


20. Don’t forget to stretch

Stretching is important for your flexibility and the recovery of your muscles. Don’t stretch a cold muscle – it’s a good way to injure yourself. If you stretch before your workout, only do so after warming up. It’s always a good idea to stretch after a workout where your muscles are already warm.


21. Train for strength

Building muscle not only increasing your strength but also increases your metabolism. Strength training also stimulates the release human growth hormone in your body which slows the aging process. It’s important to engage in strength training 2-4 times a week.


22. Make exercise a habit

The easiest way to follow through and make sure that you exercise is to make it automatic. Exercise at the same time every day if possible.


23. Get a trainer

Although a personal trainer is not necessary, having one while you start out exercising can be very helpful. They can show the proper form for exercises and help motivate you to really push yourself.


24. Make changes gradually

If you’ve been living an unhealthy lifestyle for a long time, the challenge of healthy living can seem daunting. Instead of trying to change everything at once and getting overwhelmed, make sustainable changes gradually.


25. Don’t give up

If you fall back into unhealthy patterns, there is no reason to beat yourself up about it. Identify why the lapse occurred and learn from your mistakes. Move forward with this knowledge and continue to move towards health.

Setujukah Starbuck beroperasi di IPTA?

Satu undian berkenaan "Setujukah Starbuck beroperasi di IPTA?" telah di jalankan oleh Dr. Azarae Hj. Idris
(Timbalan Naib Canselor, Hal Ehwal Pelajar & Alumni, Universiti Malaya) di blog Cetusan Pak Rae.

Sila nyatakan pendirian anda, pada saya, saya mmg tidak bersetuju sangat kerana jika alasan perkhidmatan wi-fi internet adalah lebih elok ia di sediakan oleh syarikat-syarikat internet sedia ada seperti JARING atau Streamyx.

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