Zayed University Students go to Japan

Wil McCarthy, Naomi Matsubara, Heba and Khadija join me in the studio to talk about the Japan Club at Zayed University. This club is not only Japan obsessed but they had the chance to go before the earthquake. The trip was a total eye opening experience.

The Big Start!

Al Tamimi Investments has created a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs to get their big start. www.thebigstart.ae

Jamish Damani is int he top 25 this year and Yahya Stapic was the winner last year. These guys are on fire!

Dubai's Expat Guide Book

Shaikha Al Qasimi and Fatma Al Shaibani have produced the Expat Guide Book Dubai as part of their graduation project. Their idea was to help expats get Dubai information and to also help them work out what is acceptable as behaviour and what is not.

Available in January at all fine book sellers.

+971 Magazine

Alia Bin Haider, Asma Al Bulooki and Zainab Al Abbas have joined forces to produce a magazine to help Emirati's learn more about their talents! Http://plus971magazine.blogspot.com

ZU Students Organize Football Tournament

Hemian Al Meraiki joined me to talk about how she managed to organize a GCC women's only university student tournament.

Dubai Youth Speak Out

Six Dubai students, aged 11 and 12, from Repton School, JESS and Dubai College talk about ambition, health and solving global problems. Maybe we really do need to listen to our youth today to solve the problems we have created!

April 30----students are cheats!

Maybe we are looking at a problem and cannot see it!

Sound familiar?

Cheating!

Students today are cheating their way through their education with great ease and skill.

What does the culture of cheating say about education, students, society even you and I?

I am worried that if our youth cheat through education what hope do we have when it comes to business?

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/bateman/Ways%20to%20Cheat.htm

Ways Students Cheat Today

After surveying 350+ UW-Madison students, these are the ways that students admitted to cheating:

• Plagiarism
• Taping a cheat sheet to a water bottle
• Programming notes into a calculator
• Text messaging exam information
• Headphones
• Writing on hand, arm, or other body part
• Writing on desk
• Sitting on a cheat sheet
• Putting notes on the floor/on your bag
• Looking at another student’s exam
• Buying papers online
• Turning in old papers from fraternity/sorority houses or friends papers
• Turning in the same paper for more than once class
• Having someone who took the test before you tell the student what questions are on the exam
• Copying another student’s homework
• Taking credit for group work that the student did not do
• Altering lab data
• Writing answers on gum wrappers
• Having another friend write a paper or take an exam

With the rise of technology comes news ways to cheat. Below are articles that address regarding technological advances and the classroom.

Articles:

• Internet gives rise to a bold new era in college-student cheating (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Consumer Technology; Putting Tech to the Test: As students turn to high-tech gadgets to cheat, schools consider turning to high-tech gadgets to stop them (Wall Street Journal, Sep 17, 2004)
• How to stop cheating at universities (Vancouver Sun, Sep 8, 2004)

April 16---students with a voice

This evening three of the winners of the 7th inter-school creative writing slam joined us in studio!

Give the podcast a listen, IT IS AMAZING!

Who joined us?

1. FATHIMA KHAN—Student of Our own English High School,Shj Won the WORTHY WORD SMITH TROPHY,
   
2. Bahar Behrouzi Homa : Student of Westminster school Dxb, Won the 1^st prize in category B
3. Christina AnnThomas— ,Student of OUR Own English High School Dubai Won the 1^st prize in the category A.

What we learned?

Students need to be allowed to experiment, live and be kids!

Students need an outlet.

Stop projecting on your kids, parents!

And most important and the hardest to do.... LISTEN to our youth the answers are there and sometimes that might mean backing off...

April 9 the Student's Gazette

Masarat Daud editor and dreamer has come up with a very interesting publication that fits a niche that was all but ignored int he UAE!

www.thestudentsgazette.com

Worth a look no question about that.

Contact Masarat if you have questions!

masarat@thestudentsgazette.com