Mar 8

Scary Sky in Kemang

This foto was taken at around 4.50 PM at Celeberity Fitness, Kemang, Jakarta. I was about to get on the treadmill when I saw this awsome natural phenomenon outside the gym’s window. I totally stopped working out and took several photos and I even took a video recording of it.

Please see all my pictures in my Instagram, @andrisyafaat.

May 23

The All Time “Time Travelling” theme

Just watched X-Men : Days of Future past today in the big screen. I think this is the best X-Men movie I have ever watched, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. What I want to talk about is the theme of the movie which is time travelling. Time travelling, hmmm? Since the day H.G. Wells wrote his masterpiece science fiction novel “Time Machine” in the 19th century, the thematic time travelling plot in novels, movies up till now has fascinated a lot of people. One of my favorite time travelling movie is “Back to the Future”, a masterpiece from the well known Steven Spielberg. The most thought provoking question when I think of time travelling is if I had the opportunity to time travel, what would I do? or if I met my younger me, what would I say?

 

Oct 23

Students and the necessary skills

Here’s a presentation that I did in front of Sekolah HighScope Indonesia parents explaining about the skills needed for students/children when they go into real life situation (university or work settings). 

Oct 16

Goals,failure, goal, and more goals and failure to solve the mysteries of the future

As an educator it is our duty to steer students to the goal of success and create them to become human beings that can contribute to the community and to the world. Seems ambitious don’t you think? Well, we ought to be. Education is at the point where it is being questioned whether the things that we are doing right now as an educator really fits with what the world needs. Are we really preparing our students to succeed or to fail in the future?

In my opinion, it all starts with two triggering word as a starting point to the road of success : goals and failure. With the right and clear goals it is easier for both teachers and students to determine which direction they want in their future, but in the case of failure, it is often seen as challenging. Why? There are two sides of actions once someone is already in the “pit” of failure , they either rise up and keep on struggling or give up. Furthermore, it all depends on the conditions. In today’s concept of education all education experts and observers such as Tony Wagner and Sir Ken Robinson always highlights this particular concept of failure in their speech. Here is one from Sir Ken Robinson “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” and here’s one from Tony Wagner “We must focus on skills and not content,” and “to succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated risks and learn from failure”, so what can we learn from this? I think what school need to do is create an environment where children are confident with what they are doing and develop a culture when making mistake or failing at something is a positive behaviour that leads to become more curious.