Can you see how fast the technology of information is increasing now? Yes, it becomes very fast. Now we can find lots of information easily, and very fast. We only have to open the site, write the keyword and then with just one click you will find so many information that related to your keyword. In this era there are many social networks which can connect you to all of your friend or even to all of people in everywhere. For examples there are Friendster, facebook, skype, twitter, youtube, google talk, yahoo messager, hello, blog, and maybe there will be some new social network that will be exist in the future.
Everybody now has already become so familiar with those social networks. Even social networks are not only for chat with friends but also it used for sell something, to promote something and also for studying. Yes, for studying. The teacher and the students can use it for studying.
For example we can use facebook chat application to have a discussion with our callmates, or the teacher can ask the students to write something about the material and post it in facebook and then send the link to the teacher. Then the teacher and the other students can give feedback too through comment. We also can use youtube also as study tool for the teaching and learning activity. The teacher can download a video that has relation with the lesson and show it to the students in front of the class. The teacher and the students also can record a video about learning activities and upload it into youtube and the other students will give the comments about the video.
The other examples are skype and blog. The skype can help us to connect with the other people through video. So we still can talk face to face to each other even we are far apart with skype. So the teacher and students also can use it as video conference if the teacher can’t attend in the class. So there is no reason to be left behind about information. And with blog, we can use it to post and share our writing about the lesson that the students has already learned in the class and write their opinion or maybe their question about the lesson and the other students can help to give feedback or answer the question by write a comment there.
There are so many benefits that we can get from internet especially social network. But there are also the bad thing if we use internet to study because we can easily do plagiarism or cheat, and there are lots of bad content if we pen that. So the teacher can use those social networks in class but the teacher has to give the advice that the students is only able to open the site which has related to the material. Actually I still confuse how to make my students in future to not open the wrong site because as a teacher I can’t observe my students one by one. So how about the others? Do you have any suggestion how to make the students go in the right track?
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but you know, internet also can be our obstacle when we strict to use it. I meant, sometimes when we plan to teach and will access some web but the connection is error, that can be silly you know ? haha
so, how do you deal with this issue ?
ya, about the connection trouble I think it is out of our control. so if I wanna show something to my students I prefer to search it before the class begin and save it. So I only have to open my file and show to them.
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