Students' learning is a process in which students are exposed to new concepts and content. The process involves thinking (cognitive) and the application of what has been learned in terms of behaviours. To ensure learning takes place, changes are expected to be seen at the end of the day. In the language context, students learn a language in a formal setting for instance schools or other institutions. Even though a lot of them may have acquired the language, formal learning has to take place in order to understand a well-structured language.
ICT is such a phenomenon. In the past learning and teaching took place in a classroom environment between teacher and students while the instruments used were blackboards, chalks, big white papers and the list of traditional gadjets goes on. However, since the emergence of ICT, the teaching methodology had to go through a series of evolvement. Teachers and students have to be exposed to the new method of teaching and learning via this new technology, for instance using powerpoint, videos etc. This obviously will give more motivation to students since all of them were born in the technology era.
Liza Abdullah
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Salam to everyone,
It's hard when we think it's hard. Getting to know how to do this stuff our lecturer asked us to do which is to design a banner for the blog. I once had a blog but somehow left it just like that for quite some time till I even forgot the password, normal I guess. But when Dr Sharifah said that not having our own blogs is similar to living in another planet, it's like a slap on the face, it's a wake up call, hello Liza, where've you been? I guess I am a paper-pen type of person still.
Being in this class (Educational Technology) is like me in another planet. Not that I have never used technology in my teaching life but I always use ready made templates gotten from somewhere, but in this class, creativity counts. Then comes the question...am I creative or is it too late for me to make myself creative? Looking for pictures, cutting, lassoing (is there such a word as this?) pasting, resizing them etc. are things which I don't do best. I am trying, but still not to the satisfactory level just as yet. It's been 4 weeks already and I'm still here, trying to get the hang of it...hope the creativity will appear before I know it.
Till then. Cheerio. Wassalam
It's hard when we think it's hard. Getting to know how to do this stuff our lecturer asked us to do which is to design a banner for the blog. I once had a blog but somehow left it just like that for quite some time till I even forgot the password, normal I guess. But when Dr Sharifah said that not having our own blogs is similar to living in another planet, it's like a slap on the face, it's a wake up call, hello Liza, where've you been? I guess I am a paper-pen type of person still.
Being in this class (Educational Technology) is like me in another planet. Not that I have never used technology in my teaching life but I always use ready made templates gotten from somewhere, but in this class, creativity counts. Then comes the question...am I creative or is it too late for me to make myself creative? Looking for pictures, cutting, lassoing (is there such a word as this?) pasting, resizing them etc. are things which I don't do best. I am trying, but still not to the satisfactory level just as yet. It's been 4 weeks already and I'm still here, trying to get the hang of it...hope the creativity will appear before I know it.
Till then. Cheerio. Wassalam
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