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Introduction
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What is the reason behind the development of this educational website?
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- Educational assessment in grades 3, 6, and 8 show that less than 50 of children in respective grades cannot read and write. This situation includes our children who study in international schools.
- There can be many reasons. One of which is the lack of good materials. The current textbooks only promote memory by doing traditional actions of copying and citing. Our website is designed to fulfill these shortages by introducing learning tasks and assessment questions according to Bloom Taxonomy.
- The incident of Covid-19 that require distance learning now will continue in the future. Cambodia needs good digital content that will stimulate learning. The content and the design of our website is like no others in Cambodia.
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What school challenges will the use of the website help address?
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If these are your concerns and challenges, the use of our website at your school will significantly mitigate them.
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- Student’s competency and interest in Khmer language is relatively poorer than those in the English language.
- The school lack resources in Khmer that support active teaching and learning.
- Khmer teachers lack innovative and differentiated instructional pedagogy according to students’ abilities.
- Teachers do not have time to conduct project-based assignments or inquiry-based teaching and learning.
- The printing of handouts for student practices and tests is costly and less efficient and effective.
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Content of the website
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What contents does the website contain?
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- We use state textbooks – Khmer, Mathematics, and Science from grades 1 to 3 to develop learning tasks and assessment questions.
- We use Bloom taxonomy as a reference to ensure that children will use the learning tasks and assessment items to learn Khmer, Mathematics, and Science as well as to use these subjects as tools to develop their 21st-century skills through basically countless learning tasks and assessment questions.
- We also upload a lot of reading materials developed by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, Letsreadasia.org, and Teacher Created Materials that authorize us to do the translation.
- We also upload an abridged Khmer dictionary (វចនានុក្រមសង្កប្ប) including about 8000 common words with easy definition, synonym, and antonym to make it easy for children to have quick access while using the website.
- We use photos and images that are friendly to children.
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What are the features of the website?
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- The website has five features that serve the active teaching and learning pedagogy purpose. These are the Learning, Analyzing, Assessing, Homework, and Forum page.
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What is a learning page?
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In this page, teachers as digital content developers can upload lessons in different forms such as reading text, audio files, and video files,s and create different types of learning tasks such as close questions and open questions with supporting audio, visual, and textual references. Teachers can also provide hints or feedback to every learning task so that students can check their wrong answers against the correct answers. The hint can be in the form of writing, video, or audio. The learning page is a like worksheet that teachers create both questions and answers. Therefore, it is more appropriate for close questions.
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What is an analyzing page?
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- The system records and analyzes all the learning activities and each individual student’s learning history.
- It records the time, duration, type, and number of learning tasks and results.
- The information stored on our analytical page functions as evidence and helps students and teachers remain informed of all the progress and problems.
- Teachers use analytical reports in order to analyze the student’s strengths and weaknesses collectively or individually and design differentiated instruction to meet the needs of the learners.
- Teachers can also use the analytical report for the formative assessment purpose by focusing on the procedures such as duration and number of learning tasks completed over the week or month rather than the achievement.
- The same information can also be used as data for students to learn to observe and analyze their strengths and weaknesses. It helps them take action accordingly to adjust their learning style and improve their results.
- The analytical data can be downloaded and used in combination with assessment results by the management in order evaluate the performance of the students and the teachers.
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What is an assessment page?
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- Teachers can create test and exam items for students and teachers to diagnose the prior knowledge in each lesson, assess the progress of the learning, and evaluate the results at different stages such as by lesson, month, and semester.
- Teachers can use lesson tests as formative and summative evaluations. For formative, teachers examine the test items carefully and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the students and adjust the instructional materials and teaching method accordingly.
- For summative assessment, teachers can take the average or the highest score from each lesson to make a tally with monthly assessment results or semester results.
- The assessment data can be downloaded and used in combination with analytical data by the management in order evaluate the performance of the students and the teachers.
- The data on the analytical page manifests the ongoing effort and the data on the assessment page presents the cognitive progress of the student by lesson and subject when the lesson or course is completed.
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What is a homework page?
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- This is a free page where teachers can create and assign homework of any type without predetermined answers. Students can submit their completed homework in the form of audio, image, video, and document.
- Teachers can give scores and provide feedback in the same manner as they do with papers.
- The homework assigned by a particular teacher can only be seen by the students under the teacher's management. Other users of the website do not have access to the content on the homework page created by a particular teacher.
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What is a forum page?
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- Students and teachers can post announcements, questions, responses, and feedback to promote real-time interactions, sharing, and support. The posts can be shared within the class to limit the level of publicity or publicly for everyone registered to use the website.
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Benefits of the website
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How will the teachers benefit from the website?
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- Teacher’s time spent on material development, test item writing, and homework marking will significantly be reduced. Everything is done by a machine and proper records. This will leave teachers with more time to provide differentiated instruction to gifted or slow learners.
- Teachers will shift from memory-based teaching to competency-based teaching to promote critical thinking among students via the learning tasks and assessment items on the website. Most of the activities on the website can be used as training references, especially for worksheets and test questions.
- Teachers will have time to introduce project-based assignment and inquiry-based teaching and learning – a method strongly encouraged by the current reform of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.
- Teachers can assign and check homework from their mobile phones by working closely with students and parents and telling the students where and how to carry out self-directed learning by themselves.
- Teachers can use the website to organize competitions individually or in groups. This can be scaled up to the grade level and school level.
- At the minimum level, teachers can use their mobile phones to access the well-design learning tasks to develop their teaching and learning materials and tests to test students every day or monthly. It will take students about 3-5 minutes for a test paper with 10-20 questions.
- At the end of each month, teachers can just retrieve the test result and copy and paste it into the result table used by the school.
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How will the students benefit from the website?
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- Students in practice self-directed learning as the content of the website is developed in a scaffolding manner where students start with guided practices and move to free practices.
- Students can assess their weaknesses via pre-test results in each lesson, set the learning goal, and check the goal against the post-test result. If the goal is not achieved, students can repeat the learning tasks where the problem prevails.
- By implementing pre-test, self-directed learning, and post-test students will develop high-order thinking skills by analyzing personal data on the website.
- Students can prepare themselves for the class making it a lot easy for teachers to start the new lesson.
- Students can use the website to learn tasks and tests to develop their soft skills such as personal development plans, commitment, responsibility, and integrity.
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How will the parents benefit from the website?
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- Parents can get involved in children’s learning objectively by just spending a few minutes when the children do the pre-test and a few minutes for the post-test.
- Parents can see the results of their children and know what are their strengths and weaknesses.
- Parents can use pre-test and post-test results as a means to encourage children to make use of electronic devices for learning.
- Parents in rural areas whose literacy skills and numeracy skills are low can also use the website the learn by themselves too.
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How will the management benefit from the website?
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- The management can implement teacher’s performance policy with a strong emphasis on student learning. Schools in cooperation with teachers do the diagnostic test at the beginning of the school and develop a plan to support the students learning to achieve the agreed target for example at least 80% of the students will score above the standard.
- The management will save the budget from the reduced printing of homework, quiz, and test.
- The management will be able to induce differentiated instruction or project-based learning practice as teachers are freed from preparing the materials and marking work.
- Schools can use the test items to organize a competition with community participation with minimal preparation.
- Schools can also use student data to analyze the learning results across the classroom and school years.
- In the long run, schools can use this platform to mobilize contributions from parents.
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Security, safety, and support
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What privacy and safety measures of the users exist?
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- All users’ information is stored on secure systems.
- Students’ account is fully controlled by parents’ account.
- All contents and images are made for kids.
- The microphone is only allowed to use for voice recognition in repeating words.
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What supporting services does the company provide to the user?
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- Our IT support is available to ensure the smooth and enjoyable use of the website.
- Our content development team will provide website orientation to the teachers to ensure that they every feature of the website for ease of use.
- Our pedagogical experts will provide training to teachers on topics related to current educational reform, curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
- All of these services are provided at no extra cost.
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System requirement
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What is the system requirement to use the website?
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The website can be used at different levels.
- A smartphone with an internet connection is needed for individual students to study at home. Teachers simply assign homework for students to learn factual and procedural knowledge at home and do collaborative work at school.
- A classroom with a smart TV and internet connection is needed for classroom teaching and learning. Teachers can make use of all the learning tasks to conduct the teaching and learning. There are several variations of teaching based on the design of the learning tasks.
- A computer lab with an internet connection allows for the students to do individual practices. In this case, students can do the learning tasks and tests at the same time according to their level of understanding of the lesson.
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Testimony of the website
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Is there any evidence of the past successful case?
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