Kamis, 29 September 2011

JURNAL 2, TLL.. (how digital world affects human's life)


Life is now confusing. When we are asked by our friend “do you have Fb account?” then we answer No, be ready they will laugh as loud as possible in front of us. Why is this so? Right now everything is online. Everything builds their houses in the internet. We can find everything in the Internet, search everything, and everything that even we never know before. People who seldom touch internet will be right now labeled by Cupu or something like that vexing word. This phenomenon commonly happens surround us, it is because internet can be accessed everywhere and anywhere now on. Today’s mobile phone is already sophisticated and completed by internet browser that can be used to connect to the internet connection.
You know, now on internet has changed human’s life, from far to be close, from imagination to be, reality, from difficult to be easy. Mostly internet helps us do everything we are fond of. However, it somehow makes “social inequality”. Why is this so? People who actively involve themselves to the internet society tend to call those people who never get used to the internet down. They feel being active in the internet is as if they have much money then they consider another people are poor. The real case, many students who study in the “school-standard high” will tend to insult their friend who studies in the “standard school”, because of what? It is mostly because of the different facilities provided. Students in the high standard school often share story about their school facilities to their friend who studies in the standard school. Then, students in the standard school will feel that their self esteem decreased. They feel that they are not modern as their friends like. They feel that they are not in the same level with them. Then “social inequality” happens.
Today is also called by digital era. We can create everything just by one tool, “COMPUTER”. Designing something, counting something, drawing something, typing something, just can be done by this tool. When the type-writer still existed, people would be very complicated. When they typed something, then some words were miss-typed, they had to retype it from the very beginning. However, since the computer exists, everything is easy. We can save our worksheet though it is not done yet, then we can continue it later. We can insert picture, drawing, painting, and change the word colors as what we like.
We must be grateful for sure due to this. But we must keep our manner. Don’t ever we forget where we are coming from! Technology is made to help us do our business, not to make business for help.

Selasa, 27 September 2011

Humanistic Studies Theme: Expectation towards the Subject, and How We Respond to Others


What I am going to write on the first is the word “awesome”. I will be very grateful to my God, because the curriculum from the government who obliges each High Institution to have this subject, and need it or not we have to master this subject. “Humanistic”, the word which is still strange in my ear since this subject is never learned by me before. When we little bit analyze the word humanistic, it actually comes from the word “human” which refers to God’s creature called people. Since this subject is the new subject for me, and the class just started last week, so I bet that this course will discuss about human, people, society, and how we interact with them.
Above is just my little bit prediction about where this subject is running at. What I am going to write next is about my expectation of joining this course, because when we join something, when we do something, there will be of course hope, and wish from what we have already conducted. I first hope by joining this course, I can obtain knowledge about human in the society. We all know that human is the social creature who cannot conduct their life alone. So that is why there is some ways which will be used by human to make their interaction towards someone others run well and no harm. You know that each creature has their own characteristic and no one exactly has the same. Start from different skin color, name, hair color, job, religion, and so on. So everyone is different.  I think this subject will answer what is being questioned in my thought about on how we interact with those different particular people. Interacting with someone others who is different from us is not a thing in a piece of cake. So we are highly recommended to have this course. As a teacher candidate, we will deal with varieties of students in the class. So to deal with it, we can get more knowledge from this course.
Responding and respecting others are the basic knowledge which must be owned by human as social creature to deal with the diversities which are brought by each person surrounding us. For instants, Rina is a Muslim and Rani is a Buddhist. Of course they have different way in praying to their own God, they have different place to go praying. It is just the simplest example of the phenomenon in the real life. When rina is going to mosque then Rani must respect her and not doing something disturbs her, and vice versa. Still more things to discuss about this issue, but it will be discussed more then in the next meeting.

Jumat, 23 September 2011

Subject : Principles of Effective Teaching and Assesment, Lecturer : Mrs. Ine (Reflection as to First Session)

As the name of the subjects stated on the heading, everyone can directly analyze what this subject will talk and discuss about. Let's go to the word on the first "Principle". Principle is the basic or the reference of doing particular deed. When we are going to have success in doing and achieving something then we must better have step and strong foundation, right?
 so this is what I was learning in the first session in PETA with Mrs. Ine, it was about the foundation and the step about on how creating Teaching n Assessment in an effective way. Second word is about "Teaching". Teaching is the noun form from the word Teach which means giving knowledge, sharing, and motivating someone to get something. As a teacher candidate we of course are going to be a teacher. Even it is not a literally teacher like someone who teaches lesson in the school, but we can be everything relating to education. As the future educator, so we have to first understand on how having the effective way and method in teaching..,, :)
The last word is "Assessment". When students are hearing to this word, what will suddenly come up to their mind is about assignment, so am I... :) actually..
Assessing means measuring everything which can be measured. In academic world, what is of course being assessed is student's mastery about the lesson which the teacher has already given. With this course I hopefully wish that I can find the assessment which will really match and measure student's understanding and proficiency as to the skills which have been given to them.
you know, assessing one particular thing is not the thing in a piece of cake, however it will be the hard thing. Why? because up to now, there is still plenty of teachers are not correct enough to use the assessment toward the skill which they will assess. Example, today's teacher assesses student's English speaking proficiency by giving them paper and pencil test. It is of course not able to specifically measure how far and good the student masters to speak English. What is properly given to them is the oral measurement, for instant is either telling story, conversation, or speech.

I really hope by this course, I am able to be a perfect teacher completed by those skills I mentioned above.
I really enjoy this course, and let us be the next great future educator in SSE... :)


new vocab
for instant : example

by
M. Iqbal Maulana
Sampoerna Scholar
2010120050
English Teacher Candidate
English Teacher at MABES Polisi Militer Jakarta

Kamis, 22 September 2011

Subject : Technology n Language Learning, Lecturer : Mr. Rizal (journal of Tech n L2 teaching by Warschauer n Meskil)

waw waw n waw....
due to reading this awesome article, I get much knowledge n many points of view as to high technology used in teaching. Actually each high technology (refers to computer) can be used for teaching any subject as long as the teachers know how to make it applied in each subject. However, since I am now in English and Language Department so I am going to talk about High Tech used in teaching second language based on Warschauer n Meski's article.

Before computer came, spread, and took apart in influencing people's life, traditional tools did those in the very first place. People still communicated by mail through post which would spend lots of costs and even more times. People still typed any writing just by type-writer which was not really effective to use comparing to the computer. Teacher only used old blackboards and chalks to deliver lessons to the class. No language labs, Computer labs, moreover which were connected to the internet connection. Teachers showed their effort to deliver the lessons though merely by using those limited stuffs to make their students gain the subjects.

Right now, everything changes. USA is getting closer, UK is beside us, Netherlands is our neighbor, France is as if in front of our face, etc. We can see those places more easily than before without visiting them. High technology influences it. Every aspect, side, and part of the world are influenced. Economic, Education, Health, Governance, and so on. Nothing is left from High Tech.


High tech is "ubiquitous", the word which is very attracting and grabbing my attention in this article. It is really precise that the computer is right now merely like rubbishes. Every where is available, every where is provided. No wonder if right now teaching and learning processes are touching it. Student now is much more different then before. In operating this sophisticated stuff, student is cleverer than the teacher. So this is why teacher is demanded to be updated in using these technologies. When teachers just use old blackboard and chalk before, now they must know how to operate OHP, LCD, and so on. If it is not, than good bye ...:)

Nothing perfect. Though computer helps us a lot in doing anything, this also has its own infirmity.
Just be aware in using this. No more gate for us now to get anything. Everything is available and complete provided. So, make your own way to protect yourselves. :)


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dear readers...,,

welcome to my new blog appearance... :)

long time not open my blog page, and spontaneously I got shocked cos my blog page was very messy and unorganized. 
lat time I posted here some short stories originally composed by me myself (no plagiat) hehe, and some written researches.
now you all guys can open and read new entries on my blog since all my subjects in my class oblige me to write each reflective essay/journal on blog.


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M. Iqbal Maulana
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