iTELL 2018

Summary

Parallel 1

Google Drive as a Media to Promote Collaborative Learning in Extensive Reading Course

What if teachers cannot attend to the class, do they can still sharing their knowledge?
A teacher, Gusti Nur Hafifah, harness the Google drive application to solve her problem. Since she could not attend the class, she conducted her class via Google drive. Her subject is Extended Reading which is a compulsory subject in her University.

The way of her to create her class is learning and sharing. The students must review journal or article which the material consisting education, linguistic, and literature can be selected by themselves based on the schedule set up by the teacher. The three main field of English department are selected since the students infrequently discover their interest that will lead them to conduct English research field as the final task of them.

The students do their self-learning by reading a journal or article chosen by themselves outside the class. After reading and comprehending the journal, students should submit to the Google provided by the teacher. Moreover, the teacher provides the folder for each students. She also sets the Google drive into ‘’everyone can edit’’ mode to permit her students to submit or edit. Later, when the time is up, the teacher set the Google drive into ‘’everyone can see’’ mode to prevent extra activity.

Furthermore, teacher provides collaborative learning as well. It is conducted by asking her students to share one another when they attend the class. Such collaborative activity allow both practising and reinforcing the passage they have read. Likewise, novice information that the students obtain from their companion give them new insight that is probably useful in the future.

Parallel 2

The Use of Schoology as Learning Management System

How to systemise your class when you as a teacher would like to engage a technology to your monotonous classroom? Schoology might be one of your considerations. Schoolgy is learning management system which can be freely accessed and easily utilised. Suhandhini and Bustanuddin As Suaidy introduce me deeply about this extraordinary web-based application and how to cope with the technology need in this age.

This application has abundant features that can be prominently designed for learning. Teachers can simply create a course and share it to their students to learn the lesson. Teachers also can consider students differences and coin the most appropriate learning style of the students. Besides teachers, students can conveniently share and upload their learning result or tasks from their teachers online via schoology. They can upload various kinds of file such as text, picture, or even video.  

Schoology provides not only the tool for interaction between teacher and students but also the tool for parents. Parents deal with this online learning process regarding monitoring their children process and progress. Both teachers and parents can In this case collaborate to highly track what students have done. By this feature, it is expected that learning targets are able to achieve better.

Schoology provide a tool to motivate students to learn more. It is badges. For instance, Students submitting the test or task first and with correct answer, they get badge in their account. It will replace physical gift from teacher to students but with the similar effect to encourage students’ learning activity. Teachers can create the badge by their own self.

Parallel 3

Corpus Linguistics and Data-Driven Language Learning

Teacher or people probably question how speaker of a language know what the appropriate word to select to utter and deliver meaning is. Or perhaps teachers get adversary to convince the students the right word to say. Are we a native speaker, we are naturally able to select the mean word. It is another case if the language is our second or foreign language.

Teachers or leaners consult their dictionary when a word confuses them to find out the meaning. They expose themselves to authentic English text to boost their skill up. Conversely, what they will check if they want to know the collocation? Ignatius Tri Endarto share to answer this kind of disturbing question. In his research under the tittle Corpus Linguistics and Data-Driven Language Learning He discussed it much.

His discovery is started when he found that many books and newspapers are read and it is found that grammar are change. Shortly, when a text is computed by using corpus website, the result is totally fascinating. For instance, you can find what word is frequently used in the selected text. It must be article like “the” and “a” in the top line. However, after the article, it must be the most prominent word written. It can be used to facilitate the ESP material since the word which is used in business field for example will occur.

The most wonderful finding regarding Corpus linguistic is the grammar rule. Written text is immensely rich of language usage. When teachers use it, Corpus linguistic will provide what is the rule used in the text. By staring the result work of Corpus linguistic, teachers are confidently able to say to the students that the sentences are grammatically acceptable.

Parallel 4

It is an internet of thing age. And, it will be absolutely soon to change into internet of everything age. What about education field? It will inevitably be colonialized by technology. Do teachers not harness technology in the classroom activity, they will be removed sooner or later. The idea spread widely and a lecture of public speaking, Itje Chodidjah, is aware and chooses to engage technology deal with her teaching learning process.

She asks the students to record their performance in form of video. This activity is done outside the class so that the students have a great deal of opportunities to try and error. By doing such activity, students unconsciously practise many times. The proof is that the students take video not only once. While, the activity in the classroom is 180 degree different. The students have a great lively discussion as to how to improve their speaking skill. They discuss a lots regarding difficulty and the solution. Furthermore, what they obtain from their class, they apply to revise their speaking skill while taking a video.

Itje Chodidjah also has a tactful way of teaching. She tries hard to minimize the psychological barrier. The permission to make a mistake and okay to commit also facilitates the class to improve. Besides that, enhancing speaking skill by using group work and pair work is tremendously needed since by the activity, students can interact and the interaction will build the communication.

Parallel 5

The use of multimodal in every teaching learning process is indispensable. It will vary teaching learning process. No exception in teaching writing which considers as the most difficult skill to teach must attach multimodal. Subur Wardoyo shares his knowledge about Maximizing Multimodal Exercises in the Writing Class. In his explanation, He shared from the very simple mode up to latest mode.

The first mode merely focuses on audio. The teachers dictate their students to write whatever teachers are saying. This way is massively used in the first age of teaching writing. This basic mode provides grammar, vocabulary, and spelling skill. The second mode is visual. The students look at the question consisting graph, table, or chart. Then, the students are supposed to make a written text based on the question provided.

The researcher attempt to seek how to use more modes in teaching learning process. Moreover, the multimodal must encourage the students to think while they are writing. Also, It must attach audio visual. Subur Wardoyo issued that using power point (ppt) is appropriate to multimodal in teaching writing for teachers provide audio, video, and other sources of study that are possible needed in facilitating students in learning writing.

Workshop 1

Kahoot is one of online learning application. Kahoot is fascinating to create enjoyable learning process. Teachers can create many things in Kahoot. Two teachers, Grace Nathania Clara Sabandar and Yesssy Zakaria, are making a quiz like a game. In the beginning of workshop, speaker divided audiences into several group to play a quiz like a game in Kahoot. The game runs super interesting and becomes a pastime in the workshop.

The workshop entitles Kahoot! Bring the fun into the classroom. Kahoot exceptionally brings a wonderful experience to the classroom if teachers have ability to make Kahoot support their learning. The speaker in workshop showed how to make a feature in Kahoot namely quiz. I tried it as well. I must make an account first in order to get access to Kahoot. The speaker asked audiences to make a quiz with five questions only. Audiences can write everything since it is solely a trial.

After the audiences had made a quiz in Kahoot, the speaker asked to share the account and also the quiz that was made with her. Some of audiences shares their works. It highly motivates audiences to be more serious to use technology in their classes.

Workshop 2

The improvement of virtual reality (VR) is rapidly increase in this twenty first century. By using VR, people are able to visit wherever they would like to. It is not visit in the term of attend to the place yet they can image as if they are there by using VR technology. In teaching learning case, teachers of history for instance can invite the student to travel to historical places or even to feel a war. The students must experience more lively learning than reading a text book. Otherwise, it still needs much time until the Virtual Reality become a reality in teaching learning process.

Made Hery Santosa bring the idea Virtual Reality: Enhancing thinking skill of generation Z in the age of digital distraction. The very simple notion of him is that bringing as reality as possible material into classroom to facilitate students’ learning process and achieve better understanding. He invites one of the audiences to try VR in his workshop. The audience felt extremely excited. His presentation emphasis the way of Z generation tendency of studying. And technology is mainly part of it.

Made Hery Santosa uttered that VR is played with human brain perception. It is allowed people to think that they are really in the field imaged by the VR. It also brings consequences. One of them is that people should stabilize themselves before and after using the VR since it is two obvious different world, cyber and reality word.

Plenary 1

TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. This basic idea is bringing technology to enhance learning achievement. Actually, PACK or PCK is not a novice thing in a teaching learning process. Conversely, the engagement of technology into the classroom is the basic one so that the term of PACK itself must be considered one more time. If teachers do not pay attention to this rapid shift, the teachers themselves will be removed.

Dr. Nur Arifa Drajati as a plenary speaker in iTELL 2018 share much regarding TPACK. Technology is ubiquitous. People use technology like it is primary need. This phenomena must be aware and how to make it as a future chance for future school. In TPAC age, pedagogical learning that must be considered more in the term of how to instruct and use the method, project based learning, and think pair share or group work.

The content knowledge remain the same such as fact, concept and theories. Likewise, how to cover up the content knowledge with technology. 21^th century quality learning will have four dimension as follows: active learning, authentic learning, reflective learning, and collaborative learning. By combining the four dimension the teaching learning process is expected to be better.

Plenary 2

Technology have two side. One sides is a chance for the shiny better future. On the contrary, another side is dark isolated path. Riezky Novyana from British Council uncovered audience mind up as to Cyber Bullying and Child Protection. Instant internet in every single mobile phone brought by people including learner to everywhere allows more chance for every bad guy to harm people mind and psychology so-called cyber Bullying.

The pace of people in internet is well-recorded named digital footprint. Photos, videos, text, link, browsing, and so on can be tracked and provide comprehend information about a person without he or she realize. It can be a bad thing when someone bad uses the information to commit a crime in the name of someone else. Or bad information of people can be used to bully them. The effect of cyber bullying is more destructive since internet exists wherever and whenever.

Teacher as well as parents have high responsibility to build habit that will be able to protect children from cyber bullying. Children must understand that they are not supposed to upload private file to anyone, they must ignore strangers particularly who asked to meet. Two tips mentioned at least will help the children to protect themselves while they are surfing in the internet.

Keynote speaker

Change or left behind. Move or miss tomorrow. Education must be a dynamic field since it is the way to prepare mankind to be ready to face the real world. The rapid improvement of technology unconsciously impact to the class. It will influence how a class is conducted, how the materials are obtain, and how teachers, learners, and parents interact. Technology is novice thing in education yet it is tremendously fundamental. Therefore, since the cornerstone is added, everything upper must be shifted.

Dr. A. Gumawang Jati, M.A. totally concerns about technology in language learning and presents TELL: From resources to Thinking Skills. When an adequate technology used by teacher to creating supporting atmosphere to study for both learners and teachers should also lead to thinking skills. Technology can be sources of learning and creating of thinking skill is the responsibility of teachers. Here are some technology that can be freely use to vary teaching learning process. They are kahoot.com, edpuzzle.com, onlinequizcreator.com, pedlet.com, canva.com. They are solely a small number of websites which can be harness for learning.

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