I’ve been rather busy with the computer at home, mainly working on EduDelta matters but also on my new personal project. After cleaning up Kwang Guan’s formatting problem with the proposal, revamping our project website and adding more content about our project on the website, I must say I’ve become rather versed with matters of publicity and image management for a project/organization/team. Of course, it has been fun and this is really the time when I realised what sort of organization I want to be working in. I would enjoy lots of informality, innovation, a strong willingness to explore the unknown and untried in a workplace.
The other thing I’ve been working on is something I had always wanted to do – develop the main erpz.net site. I’ve been trying all these years since its founding in 2004 but I don’t have very concrete ideas that I can sustain my energy working on. Originally I had the idea to make it a blog with false content, then a site for political discussion but they all failed. Erpz.net stayed as ‘Work In Progress’ for close to 1.5 years until a couple of days ago when it struck me that so many people around me have been trying to improve themselves by working hard through education. With EduDelta, we try and solve a cost and resource problem for kids from poor families without access to quality tuition that provides secondary support to their school work. Somehow there’s another set of tools missing from the picture. For those poor kids who are doing well in school, what they lack is not secondary education support but some information on college application, scholarship avenues and access to methods of handling resource-intensive projects that are now part of school assessment. At the same time I know of intelligent students who could have done well in school if not for their poor thinking habits and wrong attitude towards learning. I want to correct all that problems.
And that’s why I’m starting ERPZ. It’s going to revolutionize our thinking about education. Too often we have been focused on the hard stuff but with the rise of project assessment, an attempt to match skills learnt in school to the ones used at work, a new means of handling learning and education is needed. We need to learn the attitudes to adopt, the mindsets to take on and the techniques of handling the myriad of new assessments concocted by schools these days. Propagating these ideas through giving tuition would be too slow. Secondary, Junior College and University students should be mature enough to find out the right way to get things done by themselves and I’m giving them extra help.
