Projects Day && THANKS

Hello!!

Yea, most importantly, it is nice and i am indeed glad that there are people

responding to the blog, for several moments, i thought no one is reading it and

actually thought that preserving this blog was a bad idea, as my intention

was to participate and engage in meaningful discussions with people. Of course,

any form of spammage or thoughts are welcomed! (Hello, lyc, bibiana, yu xuan, thanks for leaving

your nice comments!)

Well, Notice why i didn't update my blog on Sunday? i was very busy, intensively working on my projects. The arrival of project's day certainly isn't something to laugh and smile about. It is like seeing footsteps of a dark monster, without hearing a sound. XD

I have been doing my websites, and attempting to include all the information I have collated into the web report and website. This may seem to get monotonous to you, but that's supposedly great, because i intend to create a gloomy and dead atmosphere, showing you guys

how bored and irritated i am with the piles of project on my head. (Look at my head, and you

will see my projects outcome!) LOL!

Haha, if I have asked you about doing a survey, and you have done it, then a million thanks to you! It is unlikely that people would kindly respond and give opinions about surveys, as it is rather repetitive and irritating to do so. Yup, everyone has to agree with this. I am glad to recieve the comments from you all!

Anyways, on Monday, I went to school 0.0, and it was kinda boring. Programming languages

are rather similar, perhaps in the concept. I love programming, though debugging is tedious and difficult, because I enjoy looking at the pages of scripts I wrote myself for days working perfectly. It was rather sad though my team was not included in the top 20's for the flash competition, but it was expected because we didn't finish the game. Mr. Kent Cheong, said it was a waste of opportunity as our graphics was fabulous! Thanks to Ewald using photoshop. (to ewald > i should have tried fireworks earlier, could have helped u :(

Hmm, well, thats about it for today, don't worry, I will be posting up another post for tomorrow. Dont' forget I will try to post something that is beneficial for you guys for every post i submit!

Haha, have a good day! (Smiling is the best medicine)

Getting into children's minds

Have you ever wondered why you yourself, or may be your sisters or brothers,

can watch the movie "Harry Potter" over and over and over again, repetitively, and continuously without having droopy eyes or losing consciousness?

Well, this comes into an interesting topic on kid's psychology. Before that, let me give you an example, foreshadowing what I am going to write. A young small cute girl (lol descriptive) was asked a few questions.

"Amy, what do dogs eat?"

"Bones!"

"Good job! Now, do dogs have bones?"

"Yes" she replied enthusiastically

"Hmm, then do humans have bones"

"No"

"Do cats have bones"

"No!"
"Only dogs have bones!" Was what she answered in the end.

Notice how she makes the direct association of dogs eating bones with dogs having bones. This is the common thinking of small children, and is embedded inside a cycle.

Children learns qualitatively different ways of learning from adults! There is a cycle and stage that how children thoughts develops, and in each specific stage there is a certain progression of children's thoughts. This is called "genetic epistemology".

What causes this "stages" to occur? Well it is actually because of two constant push and pull factors: assimilation and accomodation. Assimilation means to take the world's view, and put it in your own perspective. One example of what children do that fits this factor, is taking something and putting it into their mouths. They are trying and learning things that are new. Accomodation is somewhat the opposite. It is to change your view into the world's general opinions, because something in the world doesn't fit it. Basically, a child may knock himself in his head, and stop doing so because he feels pain.

The three main stages are:

sensorimotor learning: 2years

preoperational thought: egocentrism, language, numbers, simple logic 2-7 years

operational thought: conservation of numbers, perspective taking.

So, why do children watch shows over and over again? Though having watched the show once, their brain are able to retake information with freshly eyes, and subseqeuntly reinsert it into their brains. Just like why playing peek a boo with a small infant is fun, because they just keep on thinking that when you close your hands, you disappear.

In conclusion, children are not stupid when they are young. They cannot learn things like a genius, because their brain are not developed enough to do so. So next time, when you see a kid ,thinking that cats do not have bones, don't think he is silly, tell yourself " this boy is definitely less than 7" :)

BTW, perhaps one more interesting fact. If you want to check whether a child is having a good family or not, simply put him in a room and ask his parents to leave, while you enter. If he cries and screams as if you are slaughtering him, and stops crying and hugs his parents when they reenter, he is perfectly normal!

However, when you walk in and he starts to hug you and kiss you in the cheeks, well, he has an issue.

See you!