Whatever You Believe, You Become.- Michael Jackson
Hi! We are from the Liger Learning Centre. In Liger, we do project-based learning, which includes something called “Explorations.” They are seven-week projects where we connect with our community to learn and make change. In class, we explored and analyzed Humans of New York and Humans of Phnom Penh, sharing our opinions and discussing some ideas. Then we decided to make our own. Check it out!.
http://humansofcambodia.ligercambodiablog.org/
This what I love I can’t forget anyway. PPYFF is the first event that make my movie win the Best Screen Play.
On Tuesday we are a Liger students was very excited to show what we do in Liger. At about 8 o’clock in the morning I saw some of the leader of the other school which is want to know how good is Liger. Im Khouch which is assisten of primenister Hong Jun Naron and also represent Ministry of education youth and sport of Cambodia. For about 30 high school manger and represent Ministry of education youth and sport stuff were make into 7 groups to make it easy to listen Liger workshop so me one of the STEAM member. Me and Soliday are the translation into Khmer so we both are got a really heavy job. The first workshop I felt little nervous but I felt I still talked very well and the visitor was look at me and smile at me so I feel very well to talk to all of them. I hope that it will be more big work shop like that more because can make me have more challenge that I should work one for my foundation.
We want to let people know how to change their behavior and would like them know how bad the plastic were. We also want to give what the information that we have been research to the competition.
Solution of the plastic
Educate people by waste
3R (reduce reuse recycle)
Football: The sport I have played the most is football. One day, during
my second year in Liger school, I heard my coach, Jeff, said that our
team would have a big competition with a lot of schools in one day. I
waited for the day and waited and waited for this big football competition. I
went to tell my coach Jeff, “I wait a long time to play in the football
competition Jeff.” Jeff replied back, “You need to make this simple and
you need to practice a lot to be a winner”.
I started to do like Jeff told me. When the big competition day came, I
woke up in the morning with a smile on my face and my father said, “This
day you need to win this competition, so you need to eat a lot because
that can make you strong.”
I came to school. Then my school bus started to drive on the road to one
organization. When we wanted the organization, there were a lot of
schools, like iCAN school, Northbridge school, CIA school and other
schools. Before we played we needed to listen to the referee tell us when
we would start to play.
My team started to play with one school called CIA. We beat them. I shot
one goal and my friends named David and Chhoeu shot two more goals.
My team could go into the next round and we won one more game. I shot
two more goal in another game, so I had a total of three goals.
We played until there were four teams left but we lost one team by
penalty kicks. Next time we need to practice more. When I came home I
felt tired and went to sleep. This football competition made me like this
sport more and more.
I like football because this sport shows me a lot of teams work and I can make a lot of friends.
For example, I met my friend named Jaime and he met me
a lot of times when I played in football competitions. Jaime, he came from
iCAN school and he shared a lot of ideas about how to win with me. He
told me about strategy in the football game. That strategy it was my
favorite thing in football that I will not forget. Also, this football sport, it
makes me healthy and more good.
Advanced Enrichment Name: Infographics 2
Learning Facilitator: Jessica
Number of Students: 9
Advanced Enrichment Dates: Oct. 20 – Jan. 16
Days We Meet: Thursday and Friday
Course Description: On the first day of Infographics class, we drew and labeled the picture to make infographics for The Little Red Hen story. We learned a lot about facts in lots of countries. We learned one new app called Piktochart. We used it to make our personal profile. We did a lot of research. We researched about current events. We researched about the hurricane in Philippines. Another project that we researched was about the South Sudan-the newest country in the world. Next we researched Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Then we would share it with other students. We spent a lot of time doing each project. We used our computer to do research. We read and listened to find information.
Name of Course: Scratch
Learning Facilitator: Max
Number of Students: 13
Advanced Enrichment Dates: August 12-Oct 17
Days we Meet: Thursday and Friday
Course Description: In our Advanced Enrichment class we learned how to program in Scratch. Scratch is a program for making continuous animation, games, simulation, music and art. This program uses custom programming language. We learned each category of custom programming language: Motion, Control, Looks, Sensing, Sounds and Pen. Motion is moving custom program. Control is controlling custom program, for example when we click right arrow the avatar go to right. Looks is size, avatar, and communicating custom program. Sensing is sensor custom program, for example when we touch color black the avatar turn to black. Sounds is sounds custom program, for example when we press space avatar say hello. Pen is coloring custom program. We learned what the categories mean and we translated in Khmer to make more understand and remember. We played with the program to change the color to make it big. We thought what story we were going to make. Then we made the stories in Scratch. Also some of us made the games. When we had some of questions we asked teacher or our friends to help. We played with makey makey that connects to Scratch. One example of a game we made is when we touch the Earth material that connects to makey makey and the makey makey connects to computer. The computer plays the sounds.
Exploration Name: Life on Border
Exploration Dates: March 10 – May 2
Number of Students: 15
Essential Questions/Areas:
(1) What do students know about planning and running Exploration projects?
(2) What are the steps of running Exploration project?
(3) How to keep track ofworking process?
(4) How to use resources efficiently and transparently?
(5) How is the situation of people living along the border such as: education, health, economic and immigration?
(7) Why do people move there?
(8) What are the advantages and disadvantages of living there?
Description:
In our Life On Border group we learned a lot of things about border. Students know how to run the Exploration very well. Students know the goal to run their project. The first step that we can run our project is we learn about our goal. Our goal is Project Summary, Project Outcome, Project Mentors, Field Experiences, 21st Century Learning Skills and Core Curriculum Areas. After we learned about our goal we planned and thought. The situation of the people that live along the border is normal. Some people don’t have money so they don’t have work. Some people go to find work at Thailand so when the people go already some of the people can’t come back. People’s health is not so good at the border because they don’t have money to buy their food. They move to the border because if the people have the money they come to border to sell something because the border have a lot of people came from Russia to the Cambodia. So that why people want to make their business there. The advantage to live there is there are not a lot of bad people at there so it safe for people. The disadvantage to live there is if people don’t have money and they don’t have work they will not be safe for their life. We went to the border to learn and we saw some people have a work and some people don’t have work. Some people have a work but it like cart worker it is not easy to get the money. We interview the cart worker and the sellers. We went to casino to visit, but we didn’t get a chance to go in.
Exploration Name: Community English
Exploration Dates: August 12th-September 16th
Number of Students: 12
Essential Questions: Is there a best way to teach and learn?
How does knowing English effect change?
Description: Our first opening Exploration was Community English. In Community English we learned how to prepare and teach lessons to other people. But before we taught we needed to find the people who want to learn with us. To find the students we went into the community. After we knew clearly who wanted to come and learn at Liger, we gave the permission to their parents. So all of their parents can trust us. Then they let their child come and learn at Liger.
After we knew exactly who would come to learn, we prepared the lesson for them. When we went to the community to find them we also asked them what do they want to learn and that’s how we can prepare the lesson. When we finished planning the lesson we practiced before teaching students. We practiced with each other in our class. Even if we practiced with each other it does not mean that we are expert or good at it. So we had a trip to two schools. The schools are Northbridge and ICAN. At ICAN we met with one woman named Kate. Kate and Jessica prepared the schedule for us and some ICAN students to tour us around. We went there because we wanted to get experiences from the teachers at their school. Two to three days after that we went to Northbridge. At the end of the Exploration we asked some of the students how they felt and what did they think about our teaching (if its good or not). We gave them the lessons for free.
Exploration Name: Future Jobs
Exploration Dates: January 20th – March 7th
Number of Students: 12
Essential Questions:
1. How will jobs that help Cambodia look different in the future?
2. What motivates people to choose the job they do?
Description:
During the round four exploration we learned about Future Jobs. In Future Jobs we had to develop the presentation questions (ask more questions). We asked more questions because in our Exploration we had a lot of trips that taught us about the jobs in the real life. After that we learned about Nanotechnology, Water crisis and Alternative fuels. Nanotechnology is smaller than atoms. One thing we learned was that it is waterproof and can go underground without breaking. In Water crisis topic we learned that 70% of the Earth is seawater and 30% is land. But just 3% is good water. 884 million people don’t have good water and nearly 1,000,000,000 don’t have water. The last topic was Alternative fuel. We noticed that the gas can live 60 years, oil can live 60 years and coal can live 1000 years. Last we prepared for our job shadow on the next day. Job shadow means to go to the real place of work to do the job with the people that are in the job that helps Cambodia a lot. All of us went to different places with our partner. For example, some of us went to World Vision and some went to Northbridge International School.