We live in an online world, at 10.12pm, we logged in to the Homework intranet but the "challenges" were closed for the day. "Challenges" is where we do Math sums to earn credits and virtual badges. (or will they issue real badges? I'm not too sure) Anyway, the sums are open between 6am to 10pm, so we just familiarized ourselves with the website and was surprised to discover there were 'homework' in stored, 5 homework, so we did all five. (there are homework assigned by the software and homework assigned by teacher. for extra practices, we can attempt the 'challenges'). Kiki says her Math teacher has gone through the lessons with them in class, so she found the questions online a re-cap of what was imparted.
Prior to that, we voted for our preferred colour for the new bus operator that would be operating in Singapore. Her Chinese teacher had briefed them on some current news and told us (parents) to be more active in engaging our kids, and to work hand-in-hand with the lesson plans. She says from now onward, a large part of our education system will focus on - critical analysis, critical thinking, constructive debate, presentation skills. (for both Chinese & English), no wonder the queue at Learning Lab is hotter than showrooms at new condo launch. I am unable to fathom what the parents are queuing for; payment? registration? such large crowd congesting the holding area.
Where else can I learn to develop children's critical thinking skills? Must do some research on this.
Maybe I should just straightaway treat KiCo as JC students lah. Like that I don't have to think so much. Just give them lots of open-ended food for thoughts views and give them contradicting views to push their minds to think, substantiate, put forth their points, chunk-up, chunk-down, relate, etc.
What number comes just before 1?
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