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Tuesday 12 April 2016
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| Technology in the classroom. |
Technology in
learning is helpful for teachers or even students. Especially, learning about languages
through technology. It will be enjoyable for students to bring it up to the
classroom. It brings many benefits by using this modern technology. In learning,
the teacher needs media or sample to do the best goal of learning for students.
Goals addressed include competency of online tools for
teaching, creating ways to collaborate, curate, present and implement online
resources into a curriculum, and knowledge of online safety procedures and
conduct codes for students and teachers. By using special technology, the students or learners stimulate being active
to do the activity freely and happily.
There are many
ways to do that fun activity. One of the best technology is website. It is made
in order to help teachers or educators to be an active one. Not only for
students to be an active, but also the teacher themselves hopefully to be an
active one first. The example of the website is “edteachteacher”. It serves
many teaching-learning references. There are some sub-menu that contains lesson
and the activities, book resources, presentations and multimedia that will be used
by teachers, research of writing, even iPads and mobile device applications and
many more. Each sub-menu has different function to fulfill or help teacher. What
amazing website it is! Only using for one website, they can explore many things
and sources. This is one of the benefits that can be earned by the teachers in
many ways.
Studying instruction by technology
brings unexpected possibility in classroom. A teacher’s method, he or she can
give instruction to their students for online self-studying. They can read and complete exercises in the web-browser, from anywhere with an Internet
connection. After that, having discussion forums with teachers on the course. Then, end-of-course quiz provides feedback and
suggests areas for revision. By
doing so, the teacher needs to observe and supervise the process in class. It takes
course duration more effective and efficient for sure. The students can absorb
easily and the teacher does not have to take some complicated learning on it. Furthermore, in the book, there are plenty of examples of case studies of teachers
doing these kinds of activities, so you can see how technology can be
effectively used to support the language development process. These ideas
will help teacher integrate technology into practices in a way that leads to real
outcomes for your learners.
Garry Motteram argued
that digital technologies are ideally placed to help
teachers working with learners, and learners working independently, to do the
necessary ‘languaging’ (M. Swain) that makes their language
development possible. I
personally agree. It is such a great innovation that students can learned
individually without teacher standing always behind them. they can explore more
deeper. For example, If we take writing as a starting
point, technology in the form of word processors (and the many other ways we
now have of producing text) allows us to work at the language. The tools can
also help us by showing that our spelling or grammar needs work, too.
Technology makes this much easier, and makes it more likely that learners will
engage with the editing process to produce the highest-quality text that they
can.
Thursday 7 April 2016
Education is a
worthy investment for human life. Investment to get well-living or position. By
education, people can be deserved by many good things around them. It seems
like the world in our hands,everything is easy to control. Through education, everyone knows what’s going on in this world. That’s why by being educated-people we
can share our sight to others.
Year by year, education
is rapidly developed. It happens because of the awareness of the developers or
the government in educational field. How to get an easy way in teaching-learning
in this modern era. By using the advantages of internet, they make many awesome
applications for teachers. Therefore,
such a good news if the educators (teachers) can follow the development of that application
for education well. Here are some of the applications.
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For
teaching students how to present, create and code
. TED-Ed
. Haikudeck
. Duolingo
. Draw and Tell
. Animoto
. iMovie
. Instructables
. Hopscotch
. Tinkercad
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For
everyday classroom needs
. Evernote
. Expalain Everything
. Educreations
. Oxford Dictionaries
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For collaborating
on school projects
. Slack
. Google Apps for Education
. Schoology
. Mindmeister
. Wikispaces
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For communiating
with students (and their families)
. Remind
. Edublogs
. ClassDojo
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For giving
(and receiving) students feedback
. Edmodo
. Socrative
. Moodle
.
Google Forms
The social media applications
above are recommended by teachers. They are very helpful for educators in
teaching-learning process in classroom. By using these applications, the teacher and student are
easier in mastering the materials. Making
some learning videos, presentation, discussion in forum are easy now.
Saturday 26 March 2016
Blended Learning
Students are able
to learn everywhere and every time they need. They are mostly using online media
to support them in many ways. As a result, to answer the development of technology era, the educator using blended
learning as the method to use in teaching-learning process. This method, using
combination between e-learning and traditional. A
course created in a blended learning model uses the classroom time for
activities that benefit the most from direct interaction. Traditional education
(especially at the college level) tends to place an emphasis on delivering
material by way of a lecture, while in a blended learning model lectures can be
videotaped ahead of time so the student can watch on their own time. The
classroom time is more likely to be for structured exercises that emphasize the
application of the curriculum to solve problems or work through tasks.
The students are
ready to use blended learning , because most of them are having iPad or computer;
at least a half of students in the class. They learn through a mix of online/offline
and supervised brick-and-mortar/remote. In some
situations, the move to blended learning has inspired educators to redefine
traditional roles. The word “facilitator”
has emerged as an alternative to “teacher,” bringing with it a slightly different
focus. The facilitator places an emphasis on empowering students with the
skills and knowledge required to make the most of the online material and
independent study time, guiding students toward the most meaningful experience
possible.
Blended learning
can be grouped into six distinct models, it is a preliminary classification of
the blended learning models currently in use.
Face-to-face
Driver
Face-to-face teachers
deliver most of the curriculum. He/she employs online learning in technology
lab or the back of the classroom to supplement.
Rotation
Students rotate
on a fixed schedule between self-paced online learning and sitting in a
classroom with a face-to-face teacher.
Flex
An online
platform delivers most of the curriculum. Teachers provide on-site, as-needed
support through in-person tutoring or small groups sessions.
Online lab
An online platform delivers the entire
course, but in a brick-and-mortar location often students who participate in an
online lab program also take traditional courses.
Self-blended
Students choose to take remote online
courses to supplement their school’s traditional curriculum. This model of
blended learning is extremely popular among high school students.
Online Driver
An online platform and teacher deliver all
the curriculum. Students work remotely and face-to-face check-ins are either
available or mandatory.
Each school has
different way of blended learning models
to be used to advance their students based on their situation and
condition. For sure is every models have the advantages for student and
teacher.
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Miken Foundation
in 1999 said that technology and telecommunications networks filling every inch of
our live. It is true that new technology flows every part of our daily, it
means very important. Technology plays main role in many field such as
political, cultural, economic, social institution, etc. Because it contains
information. The resulting information, knowledge and economic development
are positive benefits. These initiatives reflect a political, cultural and
economic will on the part of participating institutions and individuals.This information is deeply multi-function to
access anything worthy.
Technology is a tool
in creating global learning by one click. Through technology it will breakdown
geographical, economical, language, and time-zone barrier. The example,
over a four-year period (1997-2000), the WorLD Program will
link 1200 secondary schools in 40 developing countries in South American,
Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East with partner schools in Australia,
Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. Currently, there are 150 pilot
schools connected in 14 developing countries, partnered with schools in 22
other countries. 780 Teachers have been trained to date. The program is active
in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Paraguay,
Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe (World Bank, 1999). Fortunately, the technologist
create the intelligence tool to help students more easily hold the globe. It is Peer-to-Peer video conferencing. They can communicate with other friend in other
side of the world. How fascinating! Through the use of Peer-to-Peer video conferencing, students can
study new languages and to learn about cultural differences while building a
global support network. Other example because of technology is educational accessing information and best practice research is plentiful .
Educators in developing countries face several challenges in access to staff
development. Long distance/high cost travel, visa acquisition, and prohibitive
professional journal costs present insurmountable difficulties. Technology
allows these barriers to be overcome, however.
By way of
technology, it is also an opportunity to engage young children in
an ongoing exploration of the world. They have the ability to expose children to
concepts of diversity, multiculturalism, and multilingualism at an early age. In this level, the children can choose to continue their high school careers
"cybernetically" by accessing various distance education courses. It can be done by sending text,
voice, and images are transferred with a click on a cellular phone or a
computer.
By the needs of
students in this global era are complicated and challenging, they can improve their language skills through student-to-student
conversations regardless of where they live. Communication through
speaking is a very important element. A global contact network built from having
personal conversations with other students around the world will provide
lasting benefits throughout the student’s career. They communicate with
people in remote parts of the world and read documents without physically
holding them. Social interaction helps build connections for a better world.
Absolutely, for
those who is using the technology in good ways, they will get high praise using
this online access tools provide from internet. Networking is not only for
local area but also from many sources moreover around the world. My lecturer
ever said that “Please, make a friend with other people from overseas, you’ll
find out what will you get later. It is the magic of making good-networking
with them.” Even though the friends of yours are far away over there, with
technology all are settled well. By clicking some sites in internet, you are
connecting with them. What a nice life!
Besides the
advantages, the technology brings us some unhappy feeling. Such as the fear
about nothing. While it is bad news from abroad, the local citizen in other
country will feel the weird atmosphere. Further,
the information can cause problem and make noisy for some countries. The worst
thing is causing air pollution, it makes our earth change the climate
apparently.
Facing the
reality that technology brings us to the darkness, we must be aware. Thee important behavior is
to strengthen the relationship of each country around the world. It keeps the world
in peace. The way can be by youth. Young generation (I mean students) are acquiring other languages and learning
about other cultures and customs. My friends and I from English Education have
already done the performance about knowing and learning the diversity, multiculturalism, and multilingualism from overseas. We learned CCU (one of courses, the abbreviation for
Cross-Cultural Understanding). Our ability to educate
and prepare the world’s future leaders in politics, business, and education
along with our determination to set positive examples for the value of
democracy, civility, and human rights can shape the future of the world. That’s why, we need it in order to
support the information globalize in modern technology era.
