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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.
