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There’s a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls–every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. “This is a school,” he declares.
“We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green.”American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the “achievement gap” between social classes.
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This is not a story about that conversation. KUALA LUMPUR: More aggressive efforts should be undertaken to inculcate courtesy and noble values among Malaysians, said social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.He said promoting those virtues was essential in view of the deterioration of such values, particularly among young Malaysians.“Based on my observation, the virtues of courtesy, politeness, patience, humility, tolerance and respect have yet to become our way of life. Despite our technological progress, we are confronted with the issue of decaying morality in our daily lives,” said the 1Malaysia Foundation trustee in a statement, here, yesterday.He was commenting on the latest appraisal by the Reader’s Digest magazine, which placed Kuala Lumpur at number 34 out of 36 major cities in the world in a list of Least Courteous Cities.Six years ago, Reader’s Digest placed Malaysia’s rudeness level at 33 out of the 35 countries ranked.Read more @Posted in Comments Off. It was lucky the Olympics opening ceremony was not washed out by rain, because floods, heat waves and droughts are on the rise this year.FRIDAY night’s opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London was widely acclaimed for its spectacular display. But besides the brilliant design and smooth implementation, another factor played an important role – luck.It was lucky that the ceremony was not ruined by rain. Just a few weeks ago, much of Britain was deluged by floods caused by a lengthy spell of rain.TV screens and newspapers were filled with images of cars being washed down streets that had turned into rivers.Even now, the Olympic Games organisers, athletes and spectators alike must be keeping their fingers crossed that there is no major downpour in the days ahead.The unusually intense rainfall and floods have reached historically worst levels in Britain. In January, a government report said that flooding caused by heavier rainfall will be Britain’s worst effect from climate change in the coming decades, costing damage valued at billions of pounds a year.Extreme weather events are of course not confined to Britain.
They are taking place all over the world at an increasing rate and with damaging intensity.Only last week, at least 77 people died and thousands were displaced in the worst flooding to hit Beijing in more than 60 years. This was due to a long downpour on July 21.It was the heaviest rain in Beijing since records began in 1951, causing rivers to burst their banks and flood major highways, submerging cars with people trapped inside, and sweeping houses and people away.Meanwhile, the United States is facing a severe heat wave and drought. This has caused significant falls in farm output, with serious effects on global food supply and prices.The dry weather in the United States is partly attributed to La Nina, which has a cooling effect on the Pacific Ocean, bringing warmer and dryer weather to the south of the country, including Texas whose agriculture has been devastated in the past year.But many climate scientists are also linking the drought to climate change.
According to Peter Stott of the British government’s Met Office Hadley Centre, La Nina is only part of the story.Stott co-authored a recent study which links climate change with the Texas drought and other extreme weather events. Interviewed by the Voice of America, he said his study found “clear evidence for human influence on the Texas heat wave and also in the very unusual temperatures we had in the United Kingdom in 2011”.According to the study, the 2011 Texas drought was 20 times more likely to occur than in the 1960s as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. The heat wave last November in England was 62 times more likely to have occurred than 50 years ago.by Martin Khor.Read more @Posted in Comments Off. ANY move to allow children to take handphones to school was bound to be controversial. Fireworks explode over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games July 27, 2012.Oh Danny Boyle. The Slumdog Millionaire director’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics started with such verve and promise. There were fireworks!
There were sheep! There were geese! There was electricity in the stadium, not just the kind generated by 80,000 people in a state of excited anticipation but also a clever arrangement of LED panels at every seat that sent pulses of color across the stands. Rustic folk strolled beneath fluffy cumuli and disported themselves in a vision of the green and pleasant Britain celebrated in verse by William Blake at the beginning of the 19th century, as the industrial revolution gathered steam. By 1916, when Sir Hubert Parry set the poem to music, creating the greatest of all anthems, “Jerusalem,” ever more Britons lived in cities and worked in factories; world war would soon further threaten Blake’s idyll. Boyle’s history appeared to cast industrialists as the greater danger, though the program notes made clear that the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, played by Kenneth Branagh, should be regarded as a hero. Great chimneys sprouted from the stadium floor and the once carefree yokels were transformed into drudges.
It was powerful and surprisingly scary for an event that at previous Games has dazzled but never daunted. “This is.ing terrifying!! I want my mummy,” tweeted the British critic and journalist Giles Coren.( INTERACTIVE PANORAMA: ). From construction and spelling to connotations and speech sounds, English is a language that is perplexing yet beautiful.IN this final article on grammatical terminology, reference is made to the definitions of a number of studies that are conducted into particular aspects of the English language.SemanticsSemantics is the study of meaning in language, ie.
The meanings of speech forms, especially the development and changes in meaning of words and word groups.Semantics study how the meanings, connotations, implications and ambiguities of words and concepts in language are created, determined and varied by the use and inter-relationships of words, phrases and sentences.SemioticsSemiotics is the study and analysis of signs and symbols in communication, eg. Body language.PhonologyPhonology is the study of the pattern or system of speech sounds in languages.Phonologists study phonemes, ie. Vowels and consonants as well as prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation).Phonology is often included as part of phonetics but also as a separate and distinct, linguistic study.OrthographyOrthography is the study of accepted or traditional correct spelling, ie. Correct according to usage.It also studies how the letters or symbols of the alphabet are arranged or occur sequentially in words.Besides that, the study also includes the relationship between sounds and symbols, and symbol combinations.by Keith Wright, the author and creator of the 4S Approach To Literacy and Language (4S).Read more @Posted in Comments Off.
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FIREWORKS enlighten the Olympics. –Photo taken from london2012.comLONDON: The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who, Associated Press reported.And the creative genius of Danny Boyle spliced it all together.Brilliant.
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Cheeky, too.The highlight of the Oscar-winning director’s $42 million show was pure movie magic, using trickery to make it seem that Britain’s beloved 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II had parachuted into the stadium with the nation’s most famous spy.A short film showed 007 driving up to Buckingham Palace in a black London cab and, pursued by her majesty’s royal dogs – Monty, Willow and Holly, playing themselves – meeting the queen, who played herself.“Good evening, Mr. Bond,” she said.They were shown flying in a helicopter over London landmarks and a waving statue of Winston Churchill – the queen in a salmon-colored gown, Bond dashing as ever in a black tuxedo – to the stadium and then leaping out into the inky night.At the same moment, real skydivers appeared in the skies over the stadium throbbing to the James Bond soundtrack. And moments after that, the monarch appeared in person, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip.Organizers said it was thought to be the first time the monarch has acted on film.“The queen made herself more accessible than ever before,” Boyle said.OLYMPIC RINGS assembled above the stadium. Photo by Associated PressIn the stadium, Elizabeth stood solemnly while a children’s choir serenaded her with “God Save the Queen,” and members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force raised the Union Jack. THE London Games, the 30th Olympiad, begins this morning, the third time the city is hosting the Games, the only city to do so. There will be 10,490 athletes from 205 nations competing in 26 sports. For the next 17 days we will be watching them trying to be “faster, stronger and higher”, the very spirit when the modern Olympics was resurrected in Athens in 1896.
There are those who will excel and others who will flounder, but as Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the man responsible for reviving the Games famously said, “the most important thing in the Olympics is not the winning but the taking part.”. The semester examination has just ended at my university. Working late till the wee hours of many mornings, I completed the evaluation of several thick bundles of examination scripts. As always, a fair number of answers were illegible, incomprehensible and terribly disorganised.FOR all of us in the teaching profession, the periodic ordeal of marking examination scripts arouses suicidal as well as homicidal instincts!Many students fail to exhibit basic knowledge of the subject and, understandably, fail the examination. Others have undoubted ability but not the technique or methodology of writing effective answers.
It is to the latter group of law students that I wish to address today’s column.Let me begin by saying that law is “reasoned argument”. To perform satisfactorily in the field, some special skills and techniques need to be cultivated.Language: A law student should understand that oral and written communication skills are absolutely indispensable for the effective practice of the law.
Law students should seek constantly to improve their command of the language by reading newspapers, law books and law journals.Original sources: A good law student buys her own textbooks and statutes and does not rely entirely on class handouts. She constantly supplements class handouts with self-study from textbooks and adds to the “bank account” of knowledge opened by the lecturer for the students.Art of reading: Reading is an art. Unless we have a smart strategy, it is entirely possible to get lost in the undergrowth. In reading a book or article, the student must avoid beginning at the beginning and plodding to the end. She must first look at the headings and sub-headings to get a broad feel or outline of what the chapter contains.She must proceed from the general to the particular; from the woods to the trees. If an easy book or handout is available, she must read that first to get a background.Self-study: Her study techniques must have three aims. First, to understand the basic principles of the law.
Second, to recall basic ideas. To achieve this she must summarise the main principles or ideas in simple diagrams, charts, “magic words” or acronyms.
These “scaffoldings” or outlines must be committed to memory. A third aim must be to evaluate existing materials and to highlight the flaws in the laws.Attending tutorials: Successful students go prepared to class bubbling with queries. During the class or tutorial, they don’t just hear, they listen. They jot down prolific notes. They ask questions orally or by e-mail or in other written form.
They participate.Study groups: Successful law students form informal groups for study and revision. They try to be in a group of hard workers and independent thinkers.
They encourage differences rather than conformity. They expose their understanding to scrutiny by others.Summarising notes: Organising, systematising and summarising knowledge is the best way to master it. In preparation for the examination, a good student summarises each topic on one A4 page or on index cards or uses flow charts or diagrams to organise the vast amount of material collected.by Shad Saleem Faruqi.Read more @Posted in Comments Off.