Reflection of the 21CHK-flat classroom

[tse yee cheung]

In the past two days, I've been joining the flat classroom conference. My schoolmates and I came from local schools in Hong Kong. So, for a period of time, we faces communication problems. By getting more to know each other, the problem is solved. From my perspective, I think that the use technology is becoming more and more important. In local school like mine, the use of technology is not as frequent as here. It is my first time that everyone carry their notebook and preset what they want in couple of hours. The topic Digital Divide is meaningful to me. previously, I went to third world countries such as Cambodia. They have no knowledge of Information technology as they are still very anxious about their next meal. These people have really no assess to the internet. There came the one notebook per child . And how about those second world countries, there're still people who can't assess the internet. those countries have the technology but they don't know how to use that properly. Some web 2.0 tools like Myspace, facebook, Youtube were still not used commonly in China, Thailand and Russia. It is something we can accomplish in a short time by sending campaigns, teams that are able and willing to get them the knowledge and skills required.
Other than the topic of digital divide, I've been learning too much from presentation skills. In my school, over 90% of the computers are PCs, it's hard for us to use apps like Keynote and iMovie to finish our presentation. We usually use the powerpoint, full of words at one page, presenting in boring tone and just speak while looking at a piece of speech or even stare on the powerpoint. It's totally different from what I've learnt previously. Presentation is about message and attractions. I knew yesterday multimedia is very important to a sucess presentation as it is something that probably catch the audience's attention. Also, feel confident while speaking, in a steady, calm tone. That's all what I knew in the flat classroom.

[Julie Lindsay]

Tse Yee, I really enjoyed reading your reflection. How interesting that you featured learning about presentation skills. You have an excellent perspective on who has technology and how they are able to use it globally. I am so pleased you were a part of our workshop!