Technology to teach listening and speaking

by : Meilani RL

            Today technology becoming a part of learning process in order to make it interesting and easy to absorb by the students. Now teaching listening, speaking, writing and reading are not a scary things anymore like ten years ago, we can integrated them into one programme for example voice thread. But now we are going to talk about listening and speaking only, as we know that they usually related to the student’s life and for me it is a little bit difficult rather than writing or reading.

            In learning English we have some approaches that will help us to receive the materials, it means some method that success develop student’s listening skill. According to Kreshen hypothesis he said that listening has two approaches, they are natural approach and total physical response which focuses on comprehensible input and optimum affective state of the learner. Comprehensible here means students understand what they learn by the technology that provides them the picture, sound, description about the idea of listening. Not only have that with computer students easily repeated the materials until they really got it.

            The second approaches is optimum affective which has a lot of impact in student’s environment in learning second language, the teachers have to make a good situation where the students relax and comfort to learn. Based on Kreshen theory we know that the more students feel stress they will not get anything, so in here as a new generation of teacher our duty is make a new learning process involves the technology also the pedagogical. Even technology willincrease very fastas long as we live, we still need a teacher to guide it to make sure that students walk in the right track. I am proud to be a teacher with or without technology because no matter what, the great teacher is somebody who can teach her/his students in their own way in every condition.

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Learning with Mall

         by : Meilani Ristiana Limbong

      Teaching learning in the new era of technology required us to combine all of them into a system that support us in collaborative learning. In this session I was taught about mobile learning how these technologies provide some applications which makes learning easier. According to Kukulska and Shield (2008) mobile learning is undergoing rapid evolution, it means that the mobile learning is always develop by the creator in order to design a system to fulfil learner’s need. They are some mobile learning that currently used such as mobile phones, PDA, IPod, Mp3 player. Many people said that those technology has many advantages one of them are portable but in the other hand we also know that technology also has many disadvantages for example make people individualistic, need a lot of cost to provide it and etc.

            As a teacher we realized that we need that kind of technology but the most important thing is the content that we taught to them, how well we organized class and make them reach the learning objectivity. It means that our pedagogy and the technology must be balance and support each other. As a teacher you cannot always reliant to the technology, how about the teacher in the past or teacher in the isolated place, are they stop teaching because there are no technology provide them? No. you are the teacher it means you and your students are the centre of the learning process. But we lived in the world that always progress by the day so we have to increase our capability too. As we know with some of the technology we can combine some of the collaborative learning like speaking and listening, writing and multimedia or maybe with other major such us physic, biology and economic.

            The most important thing in this session was I have to be a multi teacher, I mean the capability to mix between those kind of technology and the pedagogy approach.

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Digital Native and Digital Media

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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Technology in Learning Process

Language Teaching Methodology

(Technology in teaching at 21^st century

         A long ago people always did their activities so limited there were no cellphone, no computer or many things that you used now. But now life is very easy as we know we can break the entire obstacles like distance, time or even money. You can chat with your friend all over the world with internet, you can visit other country through a website know it well as you come in reality. As a new generation of teacher these facilities support our teaching learning to be a creative learning. We can use all of the things to make our lesson interesting and absorb easily, even you can teach them without face to face each others. Knowing about all the advances sometimes that technology has some disadvantages that are why I need learn about this course. 
            Being a teachers it means I will facing a lot of kind of students who had familiar with all technology, sometimes it will make my lesson are easily explained but in others way it can be boomerang when it use inappropriate (Some of news had said that today many people access their internet inappropriate such as for pornography or criminal things L ).

Through this course I learn to use technology for teaching, it means using it for something that useful for me and my students. In my first meeting I had learn about history of technology, when it was come out and how the technology developed. I think it was very important because as a role model sometimes our students need that information (I mean an curiosity students maybe J ). In a second session I was taught about some kind of ICT can help me in teaching learning? Why I should concerned on that? By the session I had knew that technology is not always can help you, even many people use it does not mean that it will be our domain source. There are many places cannot use computer because there were no provider can support them. Or maybe there are still a lot of school that is poor or limited in provide facility. That was realize me we are still need improvement, and I will be the agent of change. Are you agree with me?

            Now I realize as a teacher I have to be prepare what will going on me in the next future, are world will still at this time? Or maybe there will be many progressions on the technology? So what are you thinking about? Can you predict it form now?


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