Reflection 02-11-2012

As the class started, Bernard was telling us about his breakfast meeting with someone from the Digital Malaysia before coming.

We looked a little bit blur as he talked about that Digital Malaysia thing. so, we did some research. thanks to Google by the way. hee :) 

according to Bernard, Digital Malaysia has about RM 300K to be given away. The government is going to farm any brilliant yet simple idea that has to do with contents of digital. This is a big opportunities he said. They're searching for young talents with great ideas. yeah! he was referring to us :) 

A big opportunities for ideas

suddenly he threw us a challenge. since we're the Academy of Islamic Studies (API) students, so, the challenge was relating to the field that close to us.

how can we improve the learning of pendidikan islam in schools through technology? 

but he said, the mobile technology would be less applicable since most of the students who attend schools don't own smartphones.

so, then, we are given a task which is: 

Discuss? Think of way to improve islamic studies via technology in 30 minutes

If you’re going to be in the education field after graduation?

later then, some groups had presented their ideas..

 

The heart of learning and education

Target – school children, parents and teachers.

1. Great ideas – develop a game with the Islamic values. Make a “must play” time for all student, provide them with tools to play  
2. i-tube – upload videos on ibadah, sirah, aqeeda, etc.  
3. islamic version of google – search set for only Islamic items.

Some history telling moment we had with Bernard

 

it was on Google itself. 

In 2004, there were university students made their target to scan about  15millions book up until 2015, turned those books into e-books, but their idea was stopped by the publishing industry since there would cause a huge problem including the book selling, royalty etc.

As we reached the last session for the day, Bernard asked us to prepare for the next class which was go and see application store on the net, then type the word "Islam", then examine the technology that has been developed from that on word search.

Not forget to mention, the mobile industry in the world is up. Now, in 2012, Malaysia’s worth 1.2 billions US dollars in mobile industry. So forth, they expect later in 2014, mobile industry in Malaysia will be up to 8 billion US dollars.  

so, where are us in the 2014 apps?

Let’s go to where the opportunity is. As the digital Thing is the most Gangho now :)

Innovative idea + digital content = :) better life for entrepreneurs..