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Teacher’s flight simulator takes Orang Asli pupils ‘overseas’
Free Malaysia Today
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12/23/2023
Shawn Stanly Anthony Dass brings his students around the world, all within the confines of their classroom in the Perak hinterlands.
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00:00
[Music]
00:03
How do you get from Penang to Sabah?
00:06
The answer might seem obvious to most,
00:09
but this simple question was the start of a project
00:12
for Sean Stanley Anthony Das
00:14
to give his students a taste of flying on an airplane.
00:17
[Music]
00:23
Sean's light bulb moment led to him building a flight simulator
00:27
in his classroom at Sekolah Kebangsaan RPS Banun Idbera,
00:31
located an hour away from Gerig Town.
00:34
But beyond that, the project opened a path for Sean
00:37
to adopt a creative teaching approach,
00:39
particularly beneficial for his students,
00:42
many of whom struggle with literacy.
00:45
[Speaking in Indonesian]
00:50
[Music]
00:53
So imagine this, going to a class
00:55
where two out of 80 students are literate.
00:59
They can read basic words,
01:03
though they may not comprehend it,
01:04
but they have basic reading and writing abilities,
01:07
but the majority of them don't.
01:09
So how then do you teach the textbooks
01:11
or contents from the textbooks to a class
01:13
which cannot even read?
01:15
[Music]
01:24
To build his flight simulator,
01:26
Sean, who teaches science, roped in his students.
01:29
[Music]
01:32
Me and a few students, the secondary boys,
01:35
we went into the forest, chopped off some bamboos
01:38
to make the foundations or the base of the aircraft.
01:43
And I went around school collecting unused boxes
01:47
from teachers.
01:48
[Music]
01:53
In just a few days, the typical science classroom
01:56
was transformed into the cockpit and fuselage
01:58
of the school's new airline, Air Banun.
02:03
With the help of a projector
02:04
and by creatively rearranging the classroom chairs,
02:07
Sean was able to take his students
02:09
on a virtual journey to distant lands,
02:11
from the pyramids of Egypt
02:13
to the volcanic mountains of Indonesia.
02:16
It makes me think that in the classroom,
02:19
a lot of possibilities,
02:20
a lot of things can actually happen.
02:22
We can bring, like as educators,
02:24
though some realities may be distant for our children,
02:27
we can bring these realities to our children in our classroom.
02:30
[Music]
02:32
He hopes that these initiatives will debunk myths
02:34
about the abilities of Orang Asli children,
02:37
and more importantly,
02:38
inspire them to take their community to new heights.
02:42
And I hope that one day,
02:44
no matter whatever profession my students may be in,
02:48
they will also be going on to be an inspiration
02:51
to others in the future as well.
02:54
Dhanushwaja Reza, FMP News.
02:57
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