What's on my mind

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...

New technologies and telecommunications networks have dramatically transformed all facets of life, from medicine to agriculture, entertainment to politics, and economics to service industries (Milken Foundation, 1999). Rapid technological improvements, heightened interest and increased affordability have created a bridge to for information access and worldwide transparent communication among the people of the world (World Bank, 1998/99). These developments represent a watershed of opportunity. Access to information, and therefore knowledge, is becoming increasingly available to citizens in many countries where access was formerly enjoyed only by a privileged few. They also present challenges in many forms (Hallberg and Bond, 1996). Most observers acknowledge that there are barriers associated with technology acquisition and use, no matter what the intended purpose. These are sometimes in the form of government policies that restrict access for political reasons, as in China, f...