Million Dollar Experience

It is sad to realize that this course has come to an end. I learnt a lot throughout this course and I enjoyed this course so much. To be frank, I feel that this course motivates me to be a resourceful teacher, a skilful learner, and a thoughtful thinker. The course has totally changed my perspective towards the integration of technology into the teaching and learning processes in primary schools. I admit the fact that, I used to think that making technology as a useful resource in teaching primary school is impractical, unachievable, and unfeasible…

Now that I have learnt the advantages of the use of technology in teaching and learning processes through this course, I look at technology in a different point of view. I am not anymore sceptical about the effectiveness of the integration of technology into teaching and learning process since, this course has taught me to exploit technology in creative, practical, and effective ways. I have faith in myself now…and I believe that I can be a good teacher. Thus, I would like to take this opportunity to say millionbillionzillion thanks to Prof. Raja Maznah and to her entire teaching team for giving me the opportunity to improve myself in so many respects of life. I really appreciate every effort that Prof. and her teaching team made in guiding the 75 of us towards becoming better teachers.

This course also has given me the opportunity to learn from my friends. So to Muhafiz and my dear team-mates Eureka! (Jahwati, Aizam, Mazliana & Izzwaida), thank you so much! You guys have been such wonderful friends and supportive team-mates and I could never repay all those knowledge and skills that I have learnt from you. And to the rest of my friends and coursemates, thank you to you guys too as I gained lots of useful ideas, skills, knowledge and information from all of you. I would also like to thank my family for their moral and especially financial (hehehe) supports. Their endless love, blessing and support enable me to undergo this course conveniently and blissfully.

Before I go, here are my soft skills acquisitions that I have developed all the way through the course:

o Communication
I have developed both verbal and non verbal communicative skills throughout this course as this course gave me the chance to present my ideas and group works during class presentations which enhanced my verbal communicative skills. Besides, since this course required us to work in group, I had the opportunity to communicate with my teammates as well as the rest of my coursemates and that enabled me to interact more effectively. As for non-verbal communicative skills, I have improved those skills through blogging as blogging pushed me to express my thoughts well through writing.

o Creative and Critical Thinking
Through forums in Moodle especially, I managed to get myself engaged in higher order thinking skills. I am now able to analyse and evaluate problems and issues related to the integration of technology in schools in a way that is more critical and analytic. I also managed to acquire most of the knowledge and skills taught and I believed that, those knowledge and skills enhanced my thinking skills too. In term of creative thinking skills, I am able to enhance my creative thinking skills through the tasks and assignment given as they required me think creatively in order to come up with interesting products. Through class presentation, I got the chance to increase my creative thinking skills through wonderful ideas and works presented peers.

o Team Work
This course provided us the opportunity to work in groups. Through assignment and task assigned to all of us, I managed to gain fruitful experience regarding group work. I learnt to present my ideas to my group members effectively and I learnt to appreciate each others’ ideas. I learnt how to accept people’s criticism and take those criticisms in a non-offensive ways and use them as ways to improve myself and my works. Besides, cooperation and respect among my teammates were instilled throughout the course.

o Leadership
I believe that leadership is very much related with responsibility. I may not be the real leader but I was able to acquire similar attitude which a leader should have – to be responsible. This course has taught me to be responsible towards my own learning thus, I have been very committed in any task and work assigned. Besides, another leadership quality that I have developed throughout this course is being able to work with people. This is because, through this course, I was able to interact with people effectively, express my thought well as well as to understand others. I also learnt how to express my feelings, taughts, and emotions in a socially acceptable manner.

o Ethics and professional Values
Via this course, I had the opportunity to instil myself with professional values such as responsible, resourceful, practical and creative. Besides, the Fish Philosophy taught by Prof. Raja Maznah also enabled me to gain humanistic values (which I believe to be professional), which are very useful for me as a future teacher.

o Entrepreneurship
Hmm…still thinking of one. But somehow, this course me has taught me to be productive and to be creative in developing a product. Besides, I also learnt to exploit things to the fullest and make full use of everything that I have through this course. Moreover, this course has also taught me to be practical in every aspect of life. I believe that those are some of the important entrepreneurship values that I have learnt from this course.

o Lifelong learning
Like what I have said earlier, this course motivates me to be a skilful learner and a thoughtful thinker. This course taught me to be an independent learner and I think this will contribute to lifelong learning. Besides, this course is very interesting that it makes me want to learn and explore more of it. In addition, I also have developed several positive attitudes towards learning throughout this course and I believe that those attitudes are important in ensuring lifelong learning.

To encapsulate, this course has given me sooOOoo much. I learnt a lot through this course. It is a Million Dollar Experience. So…

Thank You Everyone!!!

*adieu*adieu*adieu*

Yours sincerely,

f a t i h a s E n O m