Term 3 Week 2 Reflection

For the lessons conducted for the week, the use of ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) enhanced the teaching and learning in a few ways.

During the lesson on the topic of pressure for 3E1, there was time left at the end of the lesson for the pupils to reflect on their learning and to bring up areas where they were unsure in the 'Forum' section of the Learning Management System (LMS).

This way, pupils can take time to consolidate their own learning and also to provide feedback to the teacher on their understanding. After pupils have written down their comments, the teacher can spend the next 5 minutes to look through the comments with the class and to highlight strength and weaknesses of the class as a whole. Possible Misconceptions can be addressed almost immediately or at the next lesson. The pictures of the 3E1 pupils engaged and their comments captured from the forum are shown below.

3E1 Pupils @ Work on the UMPC

Video of the 3E1 pupils in class using UMPC

As for the Sec 4A2 pupils, they were given a topical test on the topic of Practical Electricity. Each pupil would login to a online test and used the UMPC to attempt the questions online.

As for the Sec 4E1 and 5NA pupils, they were given time to write their reflection of the recently over Mid Year Exams.

4E1 Pupils @ Work on the UMPC

Questions such as:-

1. How did you think you have fared?
2. Your strength -which topics, your weakness -which topics?
3. How have you spend your june holidays?
4. Ways to improve your results.

An example of a pupil's entry as follows :-

"1. i think this time i did very badly for my science especially chemistry. i guess i did not revise enough and most of the topics need lots of practice like the electricity and we need to remember the formula in order to work the steps. if the formula is remembered wrongly, the whole steps would be wrong.

2. my strength is on the topic of heat transfer when the question is about the convection. the convection of the water is much easier to understand and easier to score as most of the question is about the same thus answering the question will be okay. Another strength is on the drawing of the loudness and pitch. My weakness is on the topic on the moments of a force. I am not too sure on the anti-clockwise and clockwise moment. Sometimes hard to determine which is the moment of the force on the clockwise and the anti-clockwise.

3. I spent my holidays mostly to complete my homework and going back to school for lessons. I only have a few days to revise every topics on different subjects so i did not have enough to look through everything. Some of the topics also forgotten so quite hard to catch up the work so i really have to work harder in order to score better and get a A1 instead of the C6 when combine both the chemistry and the physic.

4. I think i will need to practice more on the certain topics like my weakness on the moment of a force. i will approach teacher more to ask the doubts. "

The pupil's reflection allows both the pupil him/herself to benefit as it provides the platform for them to look through and write down their weaknesses and strength. At the same time, the teacher can take note of the common strength and weaknesses of the class to address those issues during lesson time.