Today, we will be posting a podcast entitle eLearning for KIDS in Bahasa Malaysia version. The podcast on eLearning for KIDS were taken from previous post. Readers can read them by clicking on the following link : here
Podcast:
Duration: 3 minutes and 51 seconds (Please click the play button to listen to the podcast)
Translation in English version:
Greetings, let me intoroduce myself,i'm James Chai. Its my turn to post a podcast. Today I will share about eLearning for KIDS. This topic would be most favourable to kids and as well to parents and guardians.
Do you know that, excessive video games would not help in learning and developing for kids. However, parents can guide their kids with the usage of digital technology to help kids in the form of learning and thinking. For example, parents can learn about using learning tools in a form of digital technology to help their kids. E-learning for kids is one of the best way to improvise the stage of learning in the process of learning for kids. It is one of the internet courses for kids that wish to improvise their skills and learning. E-learning also helps kids in mastering or understanding the basic of reading, sciences, mathematic, and computer. Nowadays, we are in the world of cyber technology where kids need to learn about the usage of computer and learning tools for future usage. Parents can motivate their kids with the helps of searching websites that provide resources of e-learning for free.
Websites can provide different types of learning courses in the form of online and offline. These courses created mainly for kids between 5 to 12 years old. Websites such as www.aaastudy.com provides math tutorials for free for kids that wanted to improvise their Mathematic skills. Do you know that, "practice make perfect?" AAA Mathematic various types of programs that can attract kids' attention.
Besides that, one of the program is online games. Online games in the form of e-learning can help kids to be more alert and sensitive. E-learning games are interactive and educational. Moreover, parents plays an important roles in engraving kids education. With the use of interactive learning tools provided for kids, kids can interact and learn about words and work hard in answering questions.
I would like to end the sharing of information till here. If readers would like to know more information, please keep track with our blog on the following link www.ee-learning.blogspot.com.
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Translation Script
Hello everyone, I am Brandy, today i am going to talk about The Pros of e-learning (电子商务学习的优点)
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First of all, we will be highlighting on the 3 important points of the pros of e-learning which are convenient, time and cost.
It is convenient to all the students during study, they can study anywhere no matter at night or morning if there is internet access provided. Self-paced is studying by their own. For the students who are slow learners, they can use the e-learning to fix it. Besides, students can read or download from internet. They can also discuss homework without using the phone.
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Apart from that, time is another advantages from e-learning because student do not need to worry about the traffic jam problem and do not need to waste time going to the library to search for information they want. The important thing is they can concentrate on their study with the use of e-learning. E-learning is provided 24 hours service. Students can always pick the time to study as their want.
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Other then convenient and time, student can still save their cost. They can save the transportation fees and fees from text book and so on. On the other hand, studying online can also satisfies the students. Other than that, deforestation is getting serious nowadays, we must save trees in order to make our Earth greener. By using e-learning, it can save our environment.
Today's post will be a little bit different from our previous posts. Today, we will be posting a podcast where the content will be from one of our previous post and will be in Chinese version. If you want to know what is happening on Malaysia education, you may want to read or listen to the news. The title of the news is "800 laptops for year 6 teachers".
Well, this podcast is about the planning on giving out 800 free laptops for to year 6 teachers starting from February, which is this month.
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Here is the link for you to download and listen to it: podcast Duration: 2 minutes and 2 seconds
English Translation Script
Music starts
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Hi everyone, I am Avelyn. Today, I will share with you all on a news about free laptops for teachers in Malaysian schools. Starting from this month, state government will give out 800 free laptops to teachers who are teaching Year 6 students.
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What is the main reason for giving out 800 free laptops to the teachers?
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Well, Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said that the state government wanted to boost up the students' academic performance in the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) with the use of e-learning as a teaching and learning tool. In our opinion, instead of using textbooks which will just harm the trees again, why not using e-books? Hey, we could save thousands of trees and feel good about saving the earth right?
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Not only that, teachers should set a good example by start using e-books to teach but how are they going to start using it? To go for training? Yes, teachers would undergo training courses to upgrade themselves on how to use the e-learning tools in class.
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Besides, there was a discussion going on between the state government and Intel Corporation Malaysia regarding about the project. The state government wanted all the teachers' laptops to install a software program which will enable the teachers to monitor their students' laptops. Why? So, students could not open the e-textbook of another subject while the teacher is teaching English.
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The cost will be very high as Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said that it would reach up millions of ringgit. The state government has seen the programme as a very important aspect to improve the learning by e-book project.
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Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said again that his vision is for the future generation in the state to be IT-savvy. So, do you think we should all work together for one mission and one vision which is to help our future generation to be IT-savvy.
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Thank you.
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Music ends: (2.01-2.02)
Glossary
1.Laptops=笔记本电脑
2.E-book=电子图书
3.Intel Corporation=英特尔公司
4.State Government=州政府 5.Mission=任务
6.Vision=目标
7.IT Savvy=科技精明
If you want to read on the article of the news, you can click [here].