In people’s mind, maybe cell phone is not useful and appropriate to bring to the class. Mostly teacher in Indonesia forbid their students to bring their cell phone to the class, because the students will misused it. Students can texting during lesson or searching some website (ex: social networking). The thing that students like to use cell phone is SMS. It makes students cannot far from their phone. Besides, cell phone now more sophisticated with internet access, video recording, and camera. Those sophisticated things should be used more useful in class. For example, teacher can held polling through text message. Teacher can give question or quiz and then students can vote the answer. Students also can use to get some material from their teacher.
The second portable is PDA. PDA is more sophisticated than cell phone, because it works like computer. It can support multimedia functions and video. Video in PDA has higher resolution than cell phone. Besides, students and teacher can do file sharing. They can also do web-based grammar and vocabularies.
Another portable technology for learning is iPod. In iPod, we can do listening and recordings activities. Students can record their assignment and then send it to the teacher. In the iPod, there is Podcast that can support students to learn. They can download some listening sessions from there as references or sources.
I can conclude that MALL is also help students, the special thing that computer cannot get from mobile is portable. CALL is also more complete rather than MALL. Computer can deal with sound, visual, and text at the same time. The number of data in computer also bigger than mobile. So, teacher shouldn’t avoid students to bring their portable thing, teacher should deal with technology that evolves fast.
4 comments:
Hae Ri,,
Nice journal I think. one week ago, I asked my teacher in high school about technology there. He told me that the application of technology is so challenging. It does not like in Jakarta. Have you some ideas to help my teacher resolve the problem?
It's a great journal,Ri!
How you measure the students' ability in writing skills through those gadget?
@ far : in my opinion, technology is not the main thing for teaching and learning activities in class, just using pedagogy skill that makes the studets interested, like debate or draw something
@ upit : maybe teacher can see from the grammar or the vocab that the students use, more complicated the vocab and right grammar, also the more sophisticated the gadget that they use
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