Teacher’s flight simulator takes Orang Asli pupils ‘overseas’

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Shawn Stanly Anthony Dass brings his students around the world, all within the confines of their classroom in the Perak hinterlands.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2023/12/25/gerik-teacher-builds-flight-simulator-to-take-orang-asli-pupils-higher/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2Rn6xEV Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2OCwH8a  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2OKJbc6 Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3cpbWKK Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/2VUfOrv Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3B1e8lN Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/39dBDbe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #OrangAsli #FlightSimulator #Teacher #SKRPSBanun #School #Project

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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 (dramatic music)

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