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.
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