Sabtu, Januari 31, 2009

Tryout UN : Part One

by kasmadi


Ujian Nasional masih tiga bulan lagi, tetapi gaungnya sudah membahana ke seluruh sekolah baik di kota-kota maupun dipelosok desa. Sebagai tolok ukur keberhasilan proses pembelajaran, ujian nasional masih sangat diperlukan guna mengetahui kualitas pendidikan Indonesia. Begitu alasan yang sering didengar dan dirilis surat kabar nasional. Pemerintah memerlukan (mungkin ini alasan politis) input dari penyelenggaraan ujian nasional sebagai dasar kebijakan disalah satu sektor pendidikan. Alasan tersebut bisa saja diterima.


Ujian nasional sebenarnya tidak menggambarkan kualitas pendidikan secara komprehensif. Dengan hanya menguji enam mata pelajaran untuk mengukur kualitas pendidikan ditingkat sekolah menengah atas. Ada unsur menafikan peran sekolah (baca: guru), disamping kemampuan (keragaman intelegensi/multiple intelegency). Sepertinya ranah psikomotor dan afektif diabaikan begitu saja, sedang yang diuji hanya ranah kognitif.

Nah, black in news-nya ujian nasional seharusnya tidak menjadi penentu kelulusan seorang siswa. Wah, memang betul itu mas. Namun kenyataannya dilapangan berbicara lain. Jika seorang siswa mendapat nilai 4,00 pada mata pelajaran matematika, sementara 5 pelajaran lain mendapat nilai di atas 7 anak tersebut tetap saja dinyatakan tidak lulus.

Dengan kondisi yang demikian, maka pihak sekolah mati-matian memprogramkan tryout. Kalau saja sekolah mau mengajarkan teknik-teknik jitu mensukseskan ujian nasional dengan elegan dan jujur. Tanpa diracuni usaha yang haram (meniru fatwa ulama kali), pasti sekolah itu akan mendapatkan blackinovation awards ......

to be continued

Tryout UN : Part Two


by kasmadi


"Busyet mampus gue, asli nggak bisa ngerjain. Soalnya ampun ....." begitu rutuk Didiet anak jurusan IPA saat mengerjakan soal tryout matematika.

"oii....gue isinye B semua....!!!" teriaknya lagi sambil tertawa.

Miris. ngiris hati.

Pemandangan yang menghujam uluhati atas sikap anak didik. Sebagai seorang guru, tentu fenomena seperti tergambar di atas sangat tidak mengenakkan. Kisah Didit di tersebut faktual dan bisa jadi mewakili gambaran sebagian anak-anak Jakarta dalam menghadapi ujian nasional. Ujian nasional menjadi april mop yang bisa banyak membuat kejutan.

Tryout hari ini yang dilaksanakan di setiap sekolah baik negeri maupun swasta di wilayah Jakarta Selatan benar-benar mewakili rupa dari banyak wajah pendidikan kita. Masih banyak sekali anak didik yang nyantai menjelang ujian nasional. Tryout yang seharusnya menjadi warming up, malah dianggap sebagai permainan belaka. Nggak bisa jawab, tanya saja teman depan, kira kanan dan belakang. Beres.

Black in News today for me....... rasanya sperlu inovasi-inovasi kreatif untuk mendongkrak semangat belajar anak-anak didik macam Didit. Pasti, banyak sekali yang seperti dia.

Tryout menjadi semacam "suplemen" yang hampir tiap minggu direguk sama anak didik disebagian Jakarta. memang perlu, tetapi jangan sampai tryout menjadi bumerang karena target kurikulum tertinggal. Sekolah menjadi panik karena harus mencapai target kelulusan yang dipatok kepsek. Allah saja yang Maha Penguji sudah memprediksi bahwa banyak sekali manusia yang tidak lulus ujianNya. Manusiawi kan?

Oh, harusnya pakai slogan autoblackthrough saja biar melecut semangat menghadapi april mop tersebut. so. smoga saja ujian nanti sukses dengan cara yang elegan baik guru, ortu dan siswa. Ga perlulah mencari bocoran sana-sini....

Sabtu, Januari 24, 2009

STATISTICAL FACTS BETWEEN MUSLIM AND JEWISH

Please take time to read this.
(Extracts of speech by Hafez A.B Mohamed: Director-General, Al Baraka
Bank.)

A. Demographics:

o World Jewish Population. 14 million
o Distribution: 7 m in America, 5 m in Asia, 2 m in Europe and
100 thousand in Africa

o World Muslim Population: 1.5 billion
o Distribution: 1 billion in Asia/Mid-East, 400 M in Africa,
44 M in Europe
and 6 M in the Americas
o Every fifth human being is a Muslim.
o For every single Hindu there are two Muslims
o For every Buddhist there are two Muslims
o For every Jew there are 107 Muslims
o Yet the 14 million Jews are more powerful than the entire 1.5 billion
Muslims

Why? Here are some of the reasons.

B. Movers of Current History
o Albert Einstein Jewish
o Sigmund Freud Jewish
o Karl Marx Jewish
o Paul Samuelson Jewish
o Milton Friedman Jewish

C. Medical Milestones
o Vaccinating Needle: Benjamin Ruben Jewish
o Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk Jewish
o Leukaemia Drug Gertrude Elion Jewish
o Hepatitis B Baruch Blumberg Jewish
o Syphilis Drug Paul Ehrlich Jewish
o Neuro muscular Elie Metchnikoff Jewish
o Endocrinology Andrew Schally Jewish
o Cognitive therapy. Aaron Beck Jewish
o Contraceptive Pill Gregory Pincus Jewish
o Understanding of Human Eye. G. Wald Jewish
o Embryology. Stanley Cohen Jewish
o Kidney Dialysis Willem Kloffcame Jewish

D. Nobel Prize Winners
o In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst
1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners

E. Inventions that changed History
o Micro- Processing Chip. Stanley Mezor Jewish
o Nuclear Chain Reactor Leo Sziland Jewish
o Optical Fibre Cable Peter Schultz Jewish
o Traffic Lights Charles Adler Jewish
o Stainless Steel Benno Strauss Jewish
o Sound Movies Isador Kisee Jewish
o Telephone Microphone Emile Berliner Jewish
o Video Tape Recorder Charles Ginsburg Jewish

F. Influential Global Business
o Polo Ralph Lauren Jewish
o Coca Cola Jewish
o Levi's Jeans Levi Strauss Jewish
o Sawbuck's Howard Schultz Jewish
o Google Sergey Brin Jewish
o Dell Computers Michael Dell Jewish
o Oracle Larry Ellison Jewish
o DKNY Donna Karan Jewish
o Baskin & Robbins Irv Robbins Jewish
o Dunkin Donuts Bill Rosenberg Jewish

G. Influential Intellectuals/ Politicians
o Henry Kissinger , US Sec of State Jewish
o Richard Levin, PresidentYaleUniver sity Jewish
o Alan Greenspan , US Federal Reserve Jewish
o Joseph Lieberman Jewish
o Madeleine Albright , US Sec of State Jewish
o CasperWeinberger , US Sec of Defence Jewish
o Maxim Litvinov , USSR Foreign Minister Jewish
o DavidMarshal , Singapore Chief Minister Jewish
o Isaacs Isaacs, Gov-GenAustralia Jewish
o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman Jewish
o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM Jewish
o Barry Goldwater , US Politician Jewish
o Jorge Sampaio, President Portugal Jewish
o Herb Gray, Canadian Deputy - PM Jewish
o Pierre Mendes, French PM Jewish
o Michael Howard, British Home Sec. Jewish
o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor Jewish
o Robert Rubin , US Sec of Treasury Jewish

H. Global Media Influential
o Wolf Blitzer, CNN Jewish
o Barbara Walters ABC News Jewish
o EugeneMeyer , Washington Post Jewish
o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine Jewish
o Katherine Graham , Washington Post Jewish
o Joseph Lelyeld, New York Times Jewish
o Max Frankel, New York Times Jewish

I. Global Philanthropists
o George Soros Jewish
o Walter Annenberg Jewish

Why are they powerful? why are Muslims powerless?
Here's another reason. We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge
.

o In the entire Muslim World (57 Muslim Countries) there are only 500 universities.
o In USA alone, 5,758 universities
o In India alone, 8,407 universities
o Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500
Ranking Universities of the World
o Literacy in the Christian World 90%
o Literacy in the Muslim World 40%
o 15 Christian majority-countries, literacy rate 100%
o Muslim majority - countries , None
o 98% in Christian countries completed primary
o Only 50% in Muslim countries completed primary.
o 40% in Christian countries attended university
o In Muslim countries a dismal 2% attended.
o Muslim majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims
o The USA has 5000 per million
o The Christian world 1000 technicians per million.
o Entire Arab World only 50 technicians per million.
o Muslim World spends on research/developmen t 0.2% of GDP
o Christian World spends 5 % of GDP

Conclusion.

o The Muslim World lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.
Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of
diffusing knowledge.
o Pakistan 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens
o Singapore 460 per 1000 citizens.
o In UK book titles per million is 2000
o In Egypt book titles per million is only 17

Conclusion.
o Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge
Applying Knowledge is another such test.
o Exports of high tech products from Pakistan is 0.9% of its exports.
o In Saudi Arabia is 0.2%
o Kuwait , Morocco and Algeria 0.3%
o Singapore alone is 68%

Conclusion.

o Muslim World is failing to apply knowledge.

What do you conclude? no need to tell the figures are speaking
themselves very loudly we are unable to listen

Advice

Please educate yourself and your children. always promote education,
don't compromise on it, don't ignore your children's slightest
misguidance from education (and please, for God's Sake, don't use your
personal contacts or sources to promote your children in their
education; if they fail, let them and make them learn to pass; b/c if
they can't do it now, they can't ever). We are World's biggest and
strongest nation, all we need is to identify and explore our
ownselves. Our victory is with our knowledge, our creativity, our
literacy...And nothing else.

....Wake up...

(from milis eramuslim)

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