What's on my mind

Nowadays, gadget has become one of our needs. Wherever we go, we always bring our gadgets. This phenomenon can be found everywhere including in schools. Most of the students have their own gadgets today. Thus, teachers should control what their students browse on the internet. This control can be done by providing many useful resources as learning materials for students available on the internet, such as: 1. Film and Videos We can find numerous film and videos in the internet. As a teacher, we need to carefully select any films and videos from the internet as our teaching materials. One site providing videos that can improve students' skill is wyzant .com . This site not only provides videos but also some materials and interesting yet challenging activities and quizzes that can enrich their knowledge and they have enough space to practice their skill. 2. Apps As a large source of knowledge, internet also offers some applications that can enhance their knowledge and ski...

As the develop ment of technology, almost all people in this globe at least have one gadget. This people including middle school students. According to Wikipedia.com, middle school is a school for students older than elementary school, but not yet in high school. The ages covered varies between, and sometimes within, countries. These middle school students should be directed to use their gadget wisely. This is the job for both parents and teachers. For teachers, they should utilize this development of technology by providing sufficient resources of materials for middle school students. These materials can be in the form of PDF, video, presentation, and etc. For example, teachers may give sites that provide useful material that has been carefully selected for students. The material should be appropriate for students, either its language, content, or difficulty level. Therefore, students may have more chance to explore numerous resources from all around the globe. This way may gi...

As the development of technology, people tend to interact through internet. This virtual interaction happens in social media application. I, myself has begun to have a social media account since 2008. It was Friendster that became my first social media. However, its popularity began to decline in 2010 as Facebook started to raise its popularity. Besides Friendster and Facebook, there are a lot of social media nowadays, such as Twitter, Path, Instagram, Line, and many more. This development of social media also affects the education field, especially in teaching and learning process. Some people began to create a useful social media application for teaching and learning process. According to TED-Ed Blog, there are 25 awesome social media applications that can improve teaching and learning process. In teaching and learning process, sometimes, students need to present their work. There are some useful applications that can be used to present, create and code, such as TED-Ed, Haikud...

Nowadays, technology has influenced almost all facets in our daily lives. From agriculture, economy, health, and even education. The development of technology helps teacher to combine this amazing invention with ‘conventional’ way of teaching. One example of this combination is Blended Learning .   Blended Learning can be defined as the way e-learning is being combined with traditional classroom methods and independent study to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology. However, there is no any perfect explanation that best define this term. Many use terms like hybrid , mixed , or integrative to describe this term. In 2000, an estimated 45,000 K-12 students took an online course , and in 2009 more than 3 million K-12 students took the course. Moreover, as the technology keep developing, it is predicted that in 2019 50% of high school course will be delivered online. There is a general consensus among education innovators that blended learning has three primary comp...