Nov 22, 2012 7:29 pm
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Examinees will not be able to tie wrist watches during Friday's combined medical and dental admission test, thanks to a recent revelation that watches were used for cheating in several competitive examinations.Medical Education Director of the Directorate General of Health Services Dr Shah Abdul Latif told bdnews24.com that they took the decision, for the first time in Bangladesh, as part of their 'foolproof' plan to conduct the 'highly competitive' entry-test. He said centre chiefs had been instructed to ensure 'adequate number of wall clocks' in every examination room.
Some 58,723 aspirants will vie for 8,493 seats in all public and private medical and dental colleges in this year's entry test that came after street protests and a court order.
The number of seats in the 22 government medical colleges is 2,811 and 4,245 in 53 private medical colleges. The nine public dental colleges and medical colleges' dental units have 567 seats, while 14 private dental institutes have 870 seats.
Usually examinees are barred to carry cell phones with them.
The Director said the recent reports of fraud in examinations using watches 'alerted' them and they took the decision of barring watches at a meeting on Sunday.
Police in October arrested 10 people, most of whom were students, in connection with forgery in the Dhaka University, Jagannath University admission tests and some other recruitment examinations.
The crooks would supply answers to their client-examinees through short messages on wrist watch-like mobiles in those examinations.
The Director said the meeting also formed 'high-powered' teams for every centre to monitor the one-hour 100-mark multiple choice questions (MCQ) examination from 10am to 11am at 23 centres across Bangladesh.
Minister, State Minister, Senior Secretary, additional secretaries, joint secretaries and many other officials under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will monitor the test in teams.
The Director said they had close contact with law enforcing agencies including Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to nail down 'even a rumour of question paper leak out'.
The government set Nov 23 for the examination after High Court ordered to take test for enrolling in medical and dental institutions on Sep 10.
Earlier, Health Minister A F M Ruhal Haque on Aug 12 announced that they would enrol students based on their GPAs in the SSC and HSC examinations from this year.
The decision triggered protest and aspirants, mostly second-timers, took to the street and two lawyers filed separate law suits.
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Nasreddin (Turkish: Nasreddin Hoca, Ottoman Turkish: نصر الدين خواجه, Persian: خواجه نصرالدین, Pashto: ملا نصرالدین, Arabic: نصرالدین جحا / ALA-LC: Naṣraddīn Juḥā, Urdu: ملا نصرالدین , Uzbek: Nosiriddin Xo'ja, Nasreddīn Hodja, Bosnian: Nasrudin Hodža) was a Seljuq satirical Sufi, believed to have lived and died during the 13th century in Akshehir, near Konya, a capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, in today's Turkey. He is considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or the butt of a joke. A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature. The International Nasreddin Hodja fest is celebrated between 5–10 July in his hometown every year
কে বেশি পেটুক
নাসিরুদ্দিন হোজ্জার বাড়িতে তাঁর কিছু বন্ধু এসেছেন। অতিথিদের তরমুজ দিয়ে আপ্যায়ন করলেন হোজ্জা। বন্ধুদের সঙ্গে খেতে বসলেন হোজ্জা নিজেও।
হোজ্জার পাশেই বসেছিলেন তাঁর এক দুষ্টু বন্ধু। তরমুজ খেয়ে খেয়ে বন্ধুটি হোজ্জার সামনে তরমুজের খোসা রাখছিলেন। খাওয়া শেষে দেখা গেল, হোজ্জার সামনে তরমুজের খোসার স্তূপ।
দুষ্টু বন্ধুটি অন্যদের বললেন, ‘দেখেছেন কাণ্ড? হোজ্জা কেমন পেটুক? তার সামনে তরমুজের খোসার স্তূপ হয়ে গেছে’!
হোজ্জা হেসে বললেন, ‘আর আমার বন্ধুটির সামনে দেখছি একটা খোসাও নেই! উনি খোসাশুদ্ধ খেয়েছেন! এখন আপনারাই বলুন, কে বেশি পেটুক!’
দেখতে বাধ্য
একদিন বাদশা হোজ্জাকে বললেন, ‘হোজ্জা, কাল থেকে আমি আর আয়নায় নিজের চেহারা দেখব না। আমার চেহারা যে এত বিচ্ছিরি, তা এত দিনে জানলাম।’
জবাবে হোজ্জা বললেন, ‘হুজুর, মাফ করবেন, আয়নায় নিজেকে দেখে বলছেন আপনি দেখতে বিচ্ছিরি। কিন্তু এই এত দিন সবাই আয়না ছাড়াই আপনাকে দেখতে বাধ্য হয়েছে।’
India have retained 15 players from the squad that lost to England in Mumbai for the third Test at Eden Gardens, beginning in Kolkata on December 5. Fast bowler Umesh Yadav, who did not play the second Test because of a back injury, was not fit and hence left out.
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The BCCI had on Monday said the selectors would pick the squad for the two remaining Tests and the two Twenty20 internationals that follow, but today's release said the selection for the fourth Test, in Nagpur, and the Twenty20 games will be made later.
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This shows the SynergyNet classroom. (Credit: Durham University)
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2012) — Researchers designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics.
New results from a 3-year project working with over 400 pupils, mostly 8-10 year olds, show that collaborative learning increases both fluency and flexibility in maths. It also shows that using an interactive 'smart' desk can have benefits over doing mathematics on paper.
Using multi-touch desks in the new classroom, the children were able to work together in new ways to solve and answer questions and problems using inventive solutions. Seeing what your friends are doing, and being able to fully participate in group activities, offers new ways of working in class, the researchers say.
The 'Star Trek classroom' could also help learning and teaching in other subjects.
The findings published in the journal Learning and Instruction, show that children who use a collaborative maths activity in the SynergyNet classroom improve in both mathematical flexibility and fluency, while children working on traditional paper-based activities only improve in flexibility.
During the project, the team found that 45% of students who used NumberNet increased in the number of unique mathematical expressions they created after using NumberNet, compared to 16% of students in the traditional paper-based activity.
Lead researcher, Professor Liz Burd, School of Education, said: "Our aim was to encourage far higher levels of active student engagement, where knowledge is obtained by sharing, problem-solving and creating, rather than by passive listening. This classroom enables both active engagement and equal access.
"We found our tables encouraged students to collaborate more effectively. We were delighted to observe groups of students enhancing others' understanding of mathematical concepts. Such collaboration just did not happen when students used paper-based approaches."
The Durham University team designed software and desks that recognize multiple touches on the desktop using vision systems that see infrared light. The project called SynergyNet set out to integrate a fully collaborative system of desks, building it into the fabric and furniture of the classroom. The new desks with a 'multi-touch' surface are the central component, and these are networked and linked to a main smartboard.
In terms of current teaching, the new system means that the 'move-to-use' whiteboard is by-passed and the new desks can be both screen and keyboard. The desks act like multi-touch whiteboards and several students can use any one desk at once.
The technology allows all students to take part as opposed to one individual dominating.
Researcher, Emma Mercier, School of Education, said: "Cooperative learning works very well in the new classroom because the pupils interact and learn in a different way. The children really enjoy doing maths in this way and are always disappointed when you turn the desks off!
"We can achieve fluency in maths through practice, however, boosting a pupil's ability to find a range of solutions to arithmetic questions is harder to teach. This classroom can help teachers to use collaborative learning to improve their pupils' flexibility in maths."
The teacher plays a key role in the classroom and can send tasks to different tables to individuals and groups. The teacher can also send one group's answers on to the next group to work on and add to, or to the board for a class discussion.
A live feed of the desks goes directly to the teacher who can intervene quickly to help an individual while allowing the group work to continue.
Professor Steve Higgins said: "Technology like this has enormous potential for teaching as it can help the teacher to manage and to orchestrate the learning of individuals and groups of learners to ensure they are both challenged and supported so that they can learn effectively."
Such a classroom may be some way off being a regular feature of schools across the world due to the costs in setting it up, and the level of support needed to make it work, however, in just 3 years the project team have noted major improvements in the technology, and a reduction in costs.
The researchers also recognise that task management in the class environment is an issue requiring thought and planning, but the overall potential of the new classroom for improved numeracy, learning, and on-going assessment is very good.
The project has worked with 12 different schools in the North East.
SynergyNet is one of eight technology enhanced learning research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of the £12M Teaching and Learning Research Programme into Technology Enhanced Learning.
The project is an inter-disciplinary collaboration at Durham University between the School of Education, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Computer Science.