Week 1 has passed. The stress somehow deteriorated,because the unexpected is revealed, and the PUN on words has started. It was a pretty nice week getting to know the flow of events and the assignments, getting acquainted to our classmates,and getting to know ourselves that we still lack a large amount of familiarity, awareness, and understanding that is gained through experience or study.
The entities that most caught my attention this week were Yudi's webquests,and Hot Potatoes,Chrabel's eagerness in creating his own class webquest, and in Nada's urge in finding a unique freeware/software to enable her students to animate their own story after making variations to it. Can I get more curious and eclectic than this? Well it is said "necessity is the mother of invention", so it seems we truly lack some necessities that's why we have this rush to propose , invent, and create.
During this week I had few more questions thrown at me from another mate, which were both new and controversial for me. What influences an academic discrepancy among world's different regions? To tell the truth not in a million years would that question occur to me if it wasn't for Hassan. however the more intriguing part is I looked, I searched,and I spied to get some clues. In developed countries like the States per Se family Vs. socioeconomic status and that's what might influence academic discrepancy. Schools there have nothing to do with achievements, they're just means to a certain end. However in less developed countries SES has nothing to do with academic achievement unless it is only in some urban areas of certain countries. What might influence these kind of countries are type pf schools, and surprisingly enough ethnicity. For this tackled topic it's worth checking these sites :
http://pics3441.upmf-grenoble.fr/articles/sopo/Social%20Class%20and%20Academic%20Achievement.pdf ; http://pagerankstudio.com/Blog/2010/10/academic-achievement-cultural-and-social-influences/.
http://pics3441.upmf-grenoble.fr/articles/sopo/Social%20Class%20and%20Academic%20Achievement.pdf ; http://pagerankstudio.com/Blog/2010/10/academic-achievement-cultural-and-social-influences/.
I spied Hassan, and answered one question, and the other question is yet to follow.
The week passed by so fast and the criteria expressed, knowledge shared, and the 'spy-work' was massive! A new week, a new task, a new pair of binoculars. Catch you real soon with new clandestine infos.
Enjoy,
Eugenie
