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omg you guys must watch this.. and the whole series!!
i also wanna learn japanese!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmhE4JP94I&NR=1
it's like the back button on the internet.. hmm maybe in future we really will conduct everything online.. i doubt that though! there's still value in sitting in a lecture hall and listening.. there's evidence but i dunno where to cite the research.oops.
anyway yea the ken robinson talk is really not groundbreaking at all.. the talk really is good for mainly two things, i think: making noise to gain political backing, and congregating to make more noise and hopefully influence thought. an event, after all, has a greater impact than a whole slew of books sitting on a shelf. ok make that three things- it's great entertainment.. i really wonder what activists really do, though, to
anyways, if im not wrong the gep was actually suggested by a psychologist, and even if not, psychologists helped develop the program and its tests. and they were obviously not testing for academic talent, they were testing for intellectual talent, so they were looking for young kids who had brains that would gladly poke and prod at ideas. maybe a better name for gep would have been igep; the intellectually gifted education programme ahaha.. to highlighted how imbalanced such minds were, heh. although, i do think that we had a lot of fun in school.. all the enrichment stuff were very activities-based too. i think they should have some of the gep activities for all students, really. except maybe the impossibly difficult math tests.. im not sure failing consistently at the age of 10 does much for one's psyche. hahaha. hum.
somebody hire me at moe curriculum planning dept already!
anyways choon maybe you're multitalented, and that is why you cant figure out what to do.. and maybe it doesnt matter.. if all else fails, teach english as a second language, or be a banker ;p or web administrator