Digital Native and Digital Media

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

By : Meilani Rl
            “Facebook, YouTube, Webquest, Skype…. Are there support my teaching process?”

            At the third and fourth meeting I was taught about digital native and media, it was interesting that we talked about how some social network can help me as a teacher in learning process. I had some point that I never realized before through some my friend’s presentation I know that we can use it, yeah.. We can use Skype for distant learning, or even we can use Facebook to make some fun activity.
            As a teacher I hope that I can use the entire social network to grab my student’s interest, but in the other hand it has many disadvantages for example the link that is misuse. We cannot avoid the fact that now students have right to access everything in the computer even the forbidden things. So my duty now is how to make some creative lesson by the technology even make them aware to using it appropriately. Actually the students is not too hard to control like we think, as a teacher we are not supposed to control them all the time what we can do is make them think to the reality, what is the best for them, why some links are inappropriate to them and what kind of activities they allow to use. in brief explanation we have to make our students who they are and what are things that they will face in real world to help them decide the right decision.
            As people who live in the digital era, it can be a benefit or even some dangerous things for us, but whatever it is the most important thing is our mind set. We learn about life day by day and we have right to choice, so whatever it can be it depends on how we see a life. Even this is a digital era we still a human who has to make our own life goes properly.   
     
    images sources from www.gandaraall.blogspot.com 

5 comments:

Rindy.agustiansyah said...

dear melani,
:D
i have some fear factors to be an digital native. may the teacher will be obsolete because technology?
may the students become an autism?
thank you,

Ika Siti Utami said...

living in digital era make us autis :(

ira_ira said...

what do you think mba mei? it really opposites usually people who control technology but sometimes it doesn't. technology control our life...

syaqifa said...

especially for introvert person like me, ka.. hehe :)

Mei_Mei said...

for all = thank you so much
as we know that we need pedagogical teaching as a guide line for use technology so it will be a benefit for each other. furthermore a good relation ship also help us to lead our students in the right way.. and for the autism students we have to make a creative lesson that make them enjoy the learning process and there are so many product will support us to do it such as video camcorder and etc.

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