Handphone as Learning Tool

What your mobile phone can do?

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Have you explored all the fitures on your handphone (HP)? Or maybe you just use it for text  messanging and making a phone call? Then, it's time for you to explore more and get benefit from your HP. HP can be use for learning tool. How? You don't have to have the expensive one. Make sure that your handphone provide an internet browser. Then just type "google" or other search engine and you will be able to find any material that you want for studying. It's so easy. Internet is a gate of knowledge. Perhaps you can get many important material which is not in your textbook. With HP you can access the information anywhere you want. Nowadays, a seven years old child already have HP. It is not an expensive and weird thing anymore.Unfortunately not all parents and teachers realize that their childrens' hp can be use for learning tool too.They have to teach their child to use hp in an effective way. For teachers, they can encourage their studens to learn something via hp.Example: teacher ask their students to use english in their mobile phones. It can increase their language skill. For maths teacher, you can ask your student to use their handphone as the calculator. It is just as simple as that.So from now on, when you used handphone, don't use it just for SMS and making a phone call, explore more and you will get more.

Here are the video about the evolution of mobilephones :

The Evolution

LTM (multiple intelligences seminar) reflection

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I felt so happy when my lecturer said that we will have a seminar about multiple intelligences. In my point of view, multiple intelligences is the best teaching methodologies ever. It is a new “weapon” to teach in a class with diverse students. Not like the ancient teaching methodology,  such as: TPR, suggestopedia, Audiolingualism and etc, multiple Intelligences offer the new way of teaching. It provides so many choices in teaching and learning. If we see in Indonesia, there are still many teachers who use the old style of teaching. Then what happen? Flash back to my school experience, the class will be so bored. Teacher treats student as they are all the same, in fact, we are all different. If teacher keep on doing the same things, not all the students can get the knowledge properly. Most of the teachers tend to stereotype student. They said that a clever student is someone who get high score in exam or someone who get the 1^st rank in class. Then what about the other student who don’t achieve the academic score? Are they all stupid? This is an old point of view. In multiple intelligences every student has their own intelligence. It is very unique. As a teacher, we have to consider each intelligence that each student has. We are responsible to implant our knowledge teaching style based on multiple intelligences.  Multiple intelligences provides teacher with so many interactive activity for teaching. This methodology helps teacher to help student for mastering a lesson perfectly. It is good to apply multiple intelligences in Indonesian school in order to achieve students and teachers academic goal.

The Seminar

Multiple Intelligences Flipchart

Diversity Creates Creativity

Imagine that you are a teacher. If all the students were from the same background, religion, ethnics, social economy and characteristics, what it will looks like? For me personally, It will be boring. If we give them a questions, probably they will give the same answer. Then imagine if in one class, there are 23 students with different background, it's gonna be an interesting class. If you ask them a question which needs a critical thought,  each of them will give different answer because they all have different characteristic. It's good to be different. As a teacher, it is a must for us to respect the diversity of our student. We cannot use the same way to approach our student. If you are different from others, it doesn't mean that you are not as good as them. The only key is to respect and tolerate with each other.

_teachers are concept of tolerence_

Long Life Learning (3L)

Teaching means Learning. If you want to teach means you also have to learn. During Technology and Language Learning class, I got a new concept in becoming a teacher. My lecturer Sir Iwan Syahril made a song named "The Teacher". He composed this song when he was studying Teacher Education in Columbia University, United States. The lyric was so touchy that makes me feel lucky to become a teacher in the future. 

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The most powerful part of this song for me is "I'm under construction". Sounds like i'm a building which is being repaired and prepared by an architect.The architect represent knowledge and skill in teaching. Teacher doesn't has to be a person who stands in front of the class and give so many assignment to their student. A teacher can be someone who teach you how to behave, how to survive, and how to treat yourself. I hope I can be a good teacher. Be a clever teacher is nice, but be a good teacher is more awesome. Being good in this context means that you are not teaching your student but also listen and learn from your student.

T.E.A.C.H.E.R

I got a picture from www.complete teacher.com last night.

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Actually it is a simple picture but have a deep meaning.

7 in 1 proffesions:

(playing several key roles)

1. Teacher as an actor. An actor has to act. It means that when you become a teacher you also have to act. Even though you are in a bad mood but infront of your student you shouldn't express your feeling. A teacher is a trend setter as well as an actor. If the teacher was lazy, it will impact the students as well.
2.  Teacher as a writer. To be a writer is not easy. So do be a teacher. You will need inspiration and creativity to write a book or an article so that many people read it. Same like being a teacher. Teaching needs creativity. You have to be creative to create an interesting and effective class. A writer has to be creative so do the teacher.
3. Teacher as a manager. A good teacher is a good manager. You need to have a good skill in managing your time in classroom. A teacher have to be able to delivered the lesson on time. A manager has to manage their employees and company. The employees represent the student and company represent the classroom.
4. Developer. A developer is someone who develops something (such as software, realestate). A success developer needs to have a good strategy in order to create successful project. A teacher have to develop his/her students knowledge and mind. Each students has different characteristics so that teacher needs different strategy to teach every students.
5. Salesperson. Salesperson is someone who sales something.Tthe successfulness of a salesperson is measured by the amount of sales he/she is able to make during a given period of time and how good is in persuading someone to buy his/her product. In teaching teacher have to "sell" his knowledge to his student. The word "sell" not literary means you get money, but sell means you implant your knowledge to your student. the way you "persuade" your students is very important in order to make her/hirbecome interesting to your lesson.
6. Proffesional. According to merriam-webster.com "proffesional" means engaged in one of the learned. A proffesional is someone who mastered something. A teacher have to be a proffesional. you have to be expert in your field.
7. Subject specialist. Mastering a specific subject is a must for a teacher.to take one step a head is a must.

Welcome ^-^

This is my first blog about education. In this blog i will share about my experience studying how to become an effective English teacher in the future. I will tell some interesting topic regarding to teaching methodologies and my experience being a student in Sampoerna school of education.
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