DIGITAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL NATIVE

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Today is the era of digital. Everything is easy to get, especially information. There are so many sophisticated gadgets in the world. Kids are more sophisticated now, they can do multitask with phone in the hand and the other hand works on Laptop. They are really usual with technology, although it evolves really fast. Even, since they were still in womb, they used to listen to the music from their mom. Those are the evidence of the digital era has happened in this world.

Digital natives are the expert of all the things that sophisticated. They are really usual with computer, phone, and also software. Teachers should be digital native in this era, because they have to follow the times and technology. Web-based learning is really helpful today for teacher and student. There are a lot of things that can be used by teacher for teaching and learning activities, like prezi for presentation,  blogger for sharing information with student, webquest, email, using audio and video recordings,  etc. students can still learn even in long distance, teacher can use skype, video recording, or video call. Teacher and student also can sharing about some subject or discuss through chatting in forum. If the technology is available in class, but teacher is not the digital native, teaching and learning activities through technology cannot woks well.

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Digital media are the tools, like MALL and CALL. MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) is everything about portable, such as cell phone, PDA, and iPod. CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) is computer based learning. Teacher used some software for teaching and learning activities, such as poser point, translator, etc. all the things that seems useless like cell phone can be useful in class.

Digital natives and digital media should be available in school. Those two things have to work well in class, so the new generation will be good generation and recognized in the world.