Technology to Develop Students’ skill

By Ira Ernawati

As a teacher we should understand about our students’ ability and skill. It is because they have different Multiple Intelligent. Hence by understanding them, it will help us in monitoring where they are good at in learning process. We also can see where their strength is and where their weakness is. Hence we can help them to develop their skill to reach the best result in learning process.

One thing that we can do with technology is providing some learning medias which can increase students’ progress. Nowadays there are many learning media which can be used and support in learning such as blogspot, wordpress, weebly, tumblr and wix. Actually there are more media than what I have mentioned. That kind of media absolutely has its own strength and weakness. Here I am going to share about one of those media. It is about wix.

Actually wix is a new media learning that I just known. It was my first time used it in my TLL class. It is because usually I just use blogspot or wordpress. Wix is similar with blog. It has some strength. Those are

1.      It has several good templates which we can get free or cost.

2.      The navigation is easy to manage.

3.      Then we can use some kind multimedia there for example picture, music, doc, and smf. Its size is unlimited.

But the weakness, it only can be used by flash. As we may know that not all computers have flash. Hence if a teacher wants to use it hence he/she must install flash player at the first time.

Hopefully by providing that kinds of media in learning process a teacher can help his / her students in developing their skill involves listening, speaking, writing and reading for example (a) by providing video and podcast in wix. It is to support in expanding students listening skill. (b) Providing some reading text. It is also be used to developing students reading skill.

By using the technology a teacher can design the learning process based on student’s level. Hence the lesson that we can develop and support in developing thinking here a teacher can also use the different instruction modal of learning by considering Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Finally I state that I agree that technology can be utilized students’ skill but as a teacher we should thinking about the weakness.