Utilizing Microsoft Learning Tools in Teaching English in The Framework of 21st Century Learning  

Oleh:

Yani, Betty Sekarasih Hadi

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 709-721.
Topik: 21st century learning; technology integration; project based learning; learning tools
Fulltext: hal 709.pdf (16.58MB)

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Technology cannot be separated from our lives. It interweaved in almost every part of people’s lives and affects how we work, socialize, connect, play, and most importantly learn. The presence of technology in the classroom becomes essential. It helps the students to prepare their future careers and real world environment, to interact more by encouraging collaboration and to conduct effective communication. Technology is also a great way to reach diversity in learning style. Well-integrated use of technology resources makes twenty-first-century learning possible. Twenty-first-century learning embodies an approach to teaching that marries content to skills. The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world. Successful technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent, accessible and readily available for the task at hand, supporting the curricular goals, and helping the students to effectively reach their goals. Project based that incorporating technology becomes the representation of 21st century learning in the classroom. Microsoft offers a lot of learning tools that can be utilized in the English teaching learning process. The tools such as autocollage, photostory, kids story builder, one note, songsmith, publisher, skype, lync and sway are effective for constructing knowledge, encouraging collaboration, presenting ideas, and improving creativity. By utilizing the microsoft learning tools in the project based learning, the students will get opportunity to work with technology to discuss and study real world issue. The technology they used give them ease to collaborate with others, to communicate their ideas and also improve their creativity. The students can learn the language with the topic of real world problem today and they also can be the designer of technology products. The other benefits obtained by integrating the technology are students become more responsible to take more control over their own learning and the classroom becomes a happier place. Students are excited about being able to use technology and therefore are more apt to learn

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