Syukur alhamdulillah masih diizinkan Allah bangun pagi walaupun kaki dok cramp2, lutut dah tak sekuat dulu. Sedekahkan alfatihah untuk diri sendiri setiap bangun pagi dan ucap alhamdulillah.
Z came back from her European holidays on Monday. So my bday gifts both from her and her dad pun tiba minggu ini. Alhamdulillah. I have decided not to eat out as always sebab teringat kata-kata Yusuf Estes : anda siapa yang nak meraikan harijadi anda? Siapa yang bertarung nyawa di saat anda dilahirkan? Kenapa nak syok sendiri makan2, tiup2 lilin etc. Wough. Jadi we will have a doa selamat at our surau mlm ni (sekali dgn kesyukuran cos' Z will be working at The Hague for over a year starting March InshaAllah). And that is it. Semoga Allah rahmati kedua ibubapa saya dan semoga saya sentiasa dilindungi Allah dari kejahatan yang nampak dan tidak nampak. Saya tiada kudrat mahupun kederat untuk melawan.
A lot had happened this week. The roundtable discussion on the use of foreign textbooks in Msian schools left me dumbfounded. The younger gen (who were present which I know would not even represent even 5% of the nation) seemed to embrace globalisation in its totality.That is not as worrying as what seems to me like the death of critical thinking in them! (the "saya menurut perintah walaupun boss suruh saya terjun ke laut" mindset). Someone asked if there were an external reviewer comm to vet books before they were made textbooks? Jawapannya ada. Then how come masih ada mistakes? Prof Gana said yes, he found many too. Prof Zuraidah (key person in introducing the book?) said yes, she found mistakes too. Then why the hell was the book pushed as textbooks? Then I raised the issue why want to use CEFR? One of the comm members said cos' x number of countries are using it (so?). And that the framework was the output of 30-40 years of research (if it's so dated, why are we still using it in the 21st century? Even Blooms Taxonomy is so faulty and it's been there since the 1960s..and we still subscribe to it). I saw Pulse 2 : text is too easy for our teens that it looks like they are dumbing down the minds of our young gen.When I was 13, I could write creative and critical essays because we had literary texts introduced in our English classes (abridged version but that stirred our love for reading and knowing other cultures too so tak timbul issue foreign text ni tapi the outcome would be more impactful than just knowing about basic rules of grammar or mastery of parrot-like 4 skills of reading, writing, listening and writing..where are critical and creative thinking skills and the opportunity to explore free writing?) My bet is to give the teachers flexibility how to teach their kids. The book can be used as a resource book but must not be forced as a textbook and this cefr thingy: throw it out the window, Standardisation is a thing of the past. We are supposed to be creative and innovative in solving our own problems. I heard how teachers of other languages (like Chinese and maybe Malay) said cefr was not appropriate for their subjects. There you go!
And I don't believe when I was told : ini kehendak kpt, we cannot do anything.And when things do not work accordingly, how quick to use that "kerajaan takda duit nak implement". Bukankah nak termuntah mendengarnya? Kalau takda duit,buat cara takda duit.Jangan menyusahkan orang lain.Ini..buku tak cukup utk semua..ada buku takda workbook. Ada buku, dvd pulak takda.Ni main masak-masak ke apa?
And so this is me at 25. :)
And bon voyage to my friends from Andalas. We had a fruitful 3-day book retreat on the Raos.Took them out to makan durian Musang King in Bentong and cendol Tok Ki. I told them cincau ni bagus untuk high blood pressure. Dr Pramono said yes but not good for the eyes. I went say what? He said yah, mana bisa letak di dalam mata. Haha. Humour orang Jawa tinggal di Sumatra. :))
Pak Undri itu pakar budaya. It's so enlightening moving around and discussing things with them. And Dr Afi is as always..fast and funny.
Z came back from her European holidays on Monday. So my bday gifts both from her and her dad pun tiba minggu ini. Alhamdulillah. I have decided not to eat out as always sebab teringat kata-kata Yusuf Estes : anda siapa yang nak meraikan harijadi anda? Siapa yang bertarung nyawa di saat anda dilahirkan? Kenapa nak syok sendiri makan2, tiup2 lilin etc. Wough. Jadi we will have a doa selamat at our surau mlm ni (sekali dgn kesyukuran cos' Z will be working at The Hague for over a year starting March InshaAllah). And that is it. Semoga Allah rahmati kedua ibubapa saya dan semoga saya sentiasa dilindungi Allah dari kejahatan yang nampak dan tidak nampak. Saya tiada kudrat mahupun kederat untuk melawan.
A lot had happened this week. The roundtable discussion on the use of foreign textbooks in Msian schools left me dumbfounded. The younger gen (who were present which I know would not even represent even 5% of the nation) seemed to embrace globalisation in its totality.That is not as worrying as what seems to me like the death of critical thinking in them! (the "saya menurut perintah walaupun boss suruh saya terjun ke laut" mindset). Someone asked if there were an external reviewer comm to vet books before they were made textbooks? Jawapannya ada. Then how come masih ada mistakes? Prof Gana said yes, he found many too. Prof Zuraidah (key person in introducing the book?) said yes, she found mistakes too. Then why the hell was the book pushed as textbooks? Then I raised the issue why want to use CEFR? One of the comm members said cos' x number of countries are using it (so?). And that the framework was the output of 30-40 years of research (if it's so dated, why are we still using it in the 21st century? Even Blooms Taxonomy is so faulty and it's been there since the 1960s..and we still subscribe to it). I saw Pulse 2 : text is too easy for our teens that it looks like they are dumbing down the minds of our young gen.When I was 13, I could write creative and critical essays because we had literary texts introduced in our English classes (abridged version but that stirred our love for reading and knowing other cultures too so tak timbul issue foreign text ni tapi the outcome would be more impactful than just knowing about basic rules of grammar or mastery of parrot-like 4 skills of reading, writing, listening and writing..where are critical and creative thinking skills and the opportunity to explore free writing?) My bet is to give the teachers flexibility how to teach their kids. The book can be used as a resource book but must not be forced as a textbook and this cefr thingy: throw it out the window, Standardisation is a thing of the past. We are supposed to be creative and innovative in solving our own problems. I heard how teachers of other languages (like Chinese and maybe Malay) said cefr was not appropriate for their subjects. There you go!
And I don't believe when I was told : ini kehendak kpt, we cannot do anything.And when things do not work accordingly, how quick to use that "kerajaan takda duit nak implement". Bukankah nak termuntah mendengarnya? Kalau takda duit,buat cara takda duit.Jangan menyusahkan orang lain.Ini..buku tak cukup utk semua..ada buku takda workbook. Ada buku, dvd pulak takda.Ni main masak-masak ke apa?
And so this is me at 25. :)
And bon voyage to my friends from Andalas. We had a fruitful 3-day book retreat on the Raos.Took them out to makan durian Musang King in Bentong and cendol Tok Ki. I told them cincau ni bagus untuk high blood pressure. Dr Pramono said yes but not good for the eyes. I went say what? He said yah, mana bisa letak di dalam mata. Haha. Humour orang Jawa tinggal di Sumatra. :))
Pak Undri itu pakar budaya. It's so enlightening moving around and discussing things with them. And Dr Afi is as always..fast and funny.
2 comments:
Kak F
Semoga afiat pada hari lahir yang ke-25 nya...
Dasar, kalau mahu dibuat usah ikut-ikutan atau mahu jadi jagoan.
Harus selalu kembali ke akar.
Selamat hari lahir Kak F. Dirahmati terus sekeluarga.
Tahniah Z di The Hague.
Mawar: Sangat tepat pemikiran Mawar itu.TK.
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