River Valley High School [*IP]

[peach68]

WeiHan:

Every initiative must have an objective.


Is there a well defined objective for ipad program?

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Off from my head, I can see how ipad can be used to make lessons more engaging. Teachers can test instantly in class to gauge if the students have understood certain section of the topics. The gauge questions can be send to the ipad of each students and they are expected to revert the answers immediately. Sleeping students will be exposed and the teachers can get a real time feel of the progress of each students in their understanding.

My daughter was asked to bring a dictionary to school, wondering they are not using ipad anymore?

[A Bit Kiasu]

worriermum:

r they supposed to choose 1 cca fr the uniform gp out of the 3 choices? I also wld like to know the sch fees as it is not stated anywhere. Does the sch hv study week prior to test/exam since they hv to stay for cca for 2/3 days, by the time they reached home they r too tired to do anything but zzz. Any parents/ seniors can help?

You can refer to http://www.rivervalleyhigh.moe.edu.sg/cos/o.x?c=/wbn/pagetree&func=view&rid=1136087 about the school CCA.

For Singaporean, the school fees is S$23 a month. You can opt for GIRO payment. I don't know about non-Singaporean.

There will be a few study days before year end exam. Secondary school curriculum is quite a big jump from primary school. Don't worry. Your kid will be able to adjust to it after a few weeks.

[RVHS]

Anyone can share this year HCL O level result?

[worriermum]

a bit kiasu, tks for the infor. do the test in sch refer to their ca1,sa1,ca2?sorry to ask so much…

[queensotong]

Poet2010:

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If your kid lacks the self-discipline in the use of the IPad, it's of utmost priority as parents to institute strict usage protocol of the mobile technology. Else, you should have opt out of the IPad 1:1 programme and loan the unit for use in school as mentioned by the former principal.

All programme and workplan instituted by the school would not be successful without the unyielding support of both parents and students.

A thinker for thoughts.

If that is the case, how can I go about informing the school regarding opting out of the IPad 1:1 programme?

Thanks

[WeiHan]

Personally, I don’t use an ipad but it seems very common and a trend that cannot be avoided.


I was abit surprised that even my 3 years old niece is using ipad to watch her cartoon and playing with some animation games and learning stuffs…She knows how to scroll and get to all the apps that she wants at this age.

[queensotong]

WeiHan:

Personally, I don't use an ipad but it seems very common and a trend that cannot be avoided.


I was abit surprised that even my 3 years old niece is using ipad to watch her cartoon and playing with some animation games and learning stuffs....She knows how to scroll and get to all the apps that she wants at this age.

:?

What has your 3 years old niece can use an ipad got to do with the problem of our child get hooked up too much by the ipad and adversely affected their results?

[WeiHan]

queensotong:

WeiHan:

Personally, I don't use an ipad but it seems very common and a trend that cannot be avoided.


I was abit surprised that even my 3 years old niece is using ipad to watch her cartoon and playing with some animation games and learning stuffs....She knows how to scroll and get to all the apps that she wants at this age.

:?

What has your 3 years old niece can use an ipad got to do with the problem of our child get hooked up too much by the ipad and adversely affected their results?

I was just saying that it looks like an irreversible trend..even 3 years old are using ipad...I really have a 3 years old niece and I don't meant to be sarcastic.

Another question is that how do you know that your child results is adversely affected by ipad? Why do you zoom in to ipad to be the reason and not maybe due to some other factors? Is there a similar period that the child isn't using ipad and his result was better to compare with a period that his result degrades after using ipad? There are students with 270+ psle t-scores and suddenly they flunk everything after they go to secondary schools and there wasn't even ipad around at the time.

[Poet2010]

queensotong:

WeiHan:

Personally, I don't use an ipad but it seems very common and a trend that cannot be avoided.


I was abit surprised that even my 3 years old niece is using ipad to watch her cartoon and playing with some animation games and learning stuffs....She knows how to scroll and get to all the apps that she wants at this age.

:?

What has your 3 years old niece can use an ipad got to do with the problem of our child get hooked up too much by the ipad and adversely affected their results?

queensotong,
I'm not being sarcastic in my comment on the IPad subject matter. Your thinking is of the \"straight-traditional\" type and that no longer applies in today's society. You need to look at the situation at various angle and not derive the answer to a problem on one single focal point.

Information technology in education and work is here to stay. Discipline in the usage of technology resides on individuals and their closest peers, kins or guardians. If IPad is really a problem for you, do approach the institution of concern and I believe you'll get a definite answer to your problem.

Safekeeping a key away from the locked door does not guarantee that the door would not be breached by a thief or burglar, less the overall security is in-built in an approach with clear objectives. Think ... Thanks

[snowman.022851697]

concernedparent999:

snowman.697:

Is there any proof that results decreased after iPad implementation? There may not be an obvious improvement but there's no decrease either. Being a student myself i can confidently say that the iPad has not resulted in weaker results. Not all students game. In my class, I don't recall anyone using the iPad for illegitimate purposes ever since school started.


I'm not defending the iPad program because I'm a student. In fact after the iPad was introduced, I basically put all my notes into google drive, which is synced with my gmail, which is synced with my phone and computer yada yada yada, which means I don't have to take out annoying notebooks all the time to do revision. And if a friend requires notes, or I lost mine, I just share the doc... Takes 5 seconds and its done.

IMO, if the child ends up using the iPad as a gaming/networking tool, then his results will reflect. There will be people who will learn it the hard way at the end of the year. I've personally been through it, and I think that's a more than enough way to make one reflect on himself. Furthermore, since all RV students are expected to be of good character... Theoretically, this problem shouldn't even exist, no?

Hi, are you blind? Where got students use iPad don't play one. Waste money sia :spank:

To answer your question, no, I'm certainly not blind. If I'm blind, I'll not be in rv. ^^ To answer your second question, of course got! I use ipad but don't play one. The rest of my class also don't play ipad during lessons one.

Don't generalise. Your daughter/son might be addicted to the ipad, but my school has 2.5k students, and he/she certainly doesn't represent the 2.5k. I own 2 computers, 2 phones, an ipad, and an android tablet, i dont see how they will affect my studies if i use them appropriately and have good time management.