Using ICT to Help Students Learn and Use English

Nowadays, technology develops rapidly. It is available anywhere and for any purposes. It also provides some ease for teaching. Teachers have got some possibilities to make a good use of technology for their teaching. Therefore, I  want to share about an article which it is written by Sri Prihartini Yulia a teacher in SMP Negeri 3 Sleman Jogyakarta. She has tried some activities of using technology for learning with her students. Her point is that she is trying new ways of teaching. She hopes that those will make her students enjoy their learning and facilitate them to learn. For this reason she wants to share some of activities she did or she is still doing it and the activities work on her students. Here is the list of activities: 1. Using interactive software. When it has been installed in a language laboratory. The teacher needs to learn how to operate it and how can students learn using it. The teacher’s duty then, just introduce the way to operate it. Then decide the target students have to achieve when learning using it. While students work with it is just monitor. Finally check their achievements. 2. Asking students to explore the web to get source of learning. After letting students learn from the text models the teacher provides, the teacher asks her students to find similar models from the website. It is possible to be done after the teacher observe that there are some internet cafe surrounds. They have to download the texts and deconstruct them. 3. Asking students to submit their assignment via email The teacher could ask the students to learn how to make an email address, the teacher asks them to try to submit their assignments via email. The teacher asked her students to compose a text then submit it. Nowadays, most of students use a mobile phone equipped with camera. The teacher could ask them to make a video of themselves when they are producing monologue telling the way to do something. You can read more in http://hrd.apec.org/index.php/Teaching_Tip:_Using_ICT_to_Help_Students_Learn_and_Use_English