ICT Tools and the Role
Nowadays, ICT is something that can’t be separated from our life. One of
its utilization is in educational life. What is meant by ICT tools here is a
technology that is useful for supporting learning and teaching process in
education like PC or laptop, projector, interactive whiteboard, LCD, monitor
and so on.
The use of ICT can give good
impact to the learning process, especially for the student learning and the
teaching methods. As cited from http://www.elmoglobal.com/en/html/ict/01.aspx, “A
report made by the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Japan, proved
that an increase in student exposure to educational ICT through
curriculum integration has a significant and positive impact on student
achievement, especially in terms of Knowledge
- Comprehension, Practical
skill, Presentation
skill in subject
areas such as mathematics, science, and social study.” For teachers, ICT helps
them to present the material and organize the class activity interestingly, dynamically,
and effectively. For example, teachers can use interactive board, video, power
point, blog, e-book and so on. For students, ICT helps them accessing
information easily, doing their assignments in more fun way, and gaining the
information or the material in more interesting way. It also makes the lesson
more enjoyable, which could improve students’ attendance and concentration. Students
will be more enthusiastic in doing their assignment if the teacher can make use
of the ICT tools appropriately. For example, watching or making a video as the
assignment, posting the assignment to their blogs, doing an online quiz, and so
on.
ICT
in English Class
In English class, ICT also
has an important role to support the learning and teaching process. For
example, for the teaching process, a teacher can make use of an online or
offline dictionary which is supported by the sound of how to pronounce a word
in teaching pronunciation. Then, she/he can also make us of video to give the
students example of how native speaker speak in listening class, to measure
their understanding of a story or speech in the video by asking the students to
retell or rewrite them and many others. For the learning process, a student can
also make use of the online or offline dictionary to help them in pronouncing
or translating something. Then, many websites that provide some material about
English can also help them in learning English. For example Zenius English, BBC Learning English, VOA Learning English, and so on.
The
ICT application in Education and Language Learning
For the detail, here are some
examples of the ICT application in Education and Language Learning.
1. Prezi
This is a kind of presentation software or what we
previously known as PowerPoint. But I think it is more interesting than
PowerPoint. Prezi provides us a virtual canvas upon which to pin text slides,
video clips and images and to present our ideas. In term of style, Prezi can
engage the students’ attention who is bored with the cheesy slide transition on
the white board.
2. StudyBlue
StudyBlue
is an online studying platform for high school and college students. The website
allows users to upload class study materials, create electronic flashcard to
study and share with others, and practice quizzes. StudyBlue allows students to
store their notes in the cloud and connect with other students studying the
same subjects. StudyBlue content can be accessed online or on mobile phone application.
3. Google Docs
Google Docs offers online word processing,
spreadsheet creation and presentation package. If students use Google Docs
forward processing, for example, their work is accessible from any computer
connected to the internet. Better still, when they add their teacher as a collaborator
to a document, not only can teachers add real-time comments to pupils' work,
but they can monitor every revision made by a pupil or group.
4. Edmodo
Edmodo is a social-networking website for teachers,
students, and parents. This website appearance is similar to Facebook. Teachers
can invite students into private groups that can be used for online classroom
discussions, but in a format that keeps the teacher firmly in control. Teachers
give students a class signup code, which can be deactivated once all students
have signed up, and students in turn are encouraged to share the code with
their parents, allowing them to monitor their own child's activity. The applications
are Discussions, Learning Communities, a Parent Role, Analytics, Security,
Groups, and many more. Edmodo has the right features, without there being so
much to learn that teachers get overwhelmed and lost.
5. Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
This dictionary has two versions, online and offline. For the online version you can visit here. You can also pin it to your website or blog. As the example, you can see it in right sidebar of this blog. For the offline one, you can download and install it from here. This dictionary is completed by the phonetic transcription and the sound of how to pronounce a word, thesaurus, word building (to find out the part of speech of a word), extra example, verb ending, and collocations. It's so complete that can help you learning English better.
5. Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
This dictionary has two versions, online and offline. For the online version you can visit here. You can also pin it to your website or blog. As the example, you can see it in right sidebar of this blog. For the offline one, you can download and install it from here. This dictionary is completed by the phonetic transcription and the sound of how to pronounce a word, thesaurus, word building (to find out the part of speech of a word), extra example, verb ending, and collocations. It's so complete that can help you learning English better.
Sources:
0 comments:
Post a Comment