SUMMARY
A report from Japan showed that ICT can
improve students’ motivation in learning, especially in terms of “Knowledge-Comprehension”,
“Practical skill” and “Presentation skill”. Although ICT can give some
advantages for students in education, ICT also can give some disadvantages in
education . The advantages of ICT in education are: by seeing the pictures,
students can remember the material longer, for the teacher, they could measure
how far students understand the material, and they could make learning more
interesting for students and could improve students attendance and
concentration. On the other side, the disadvantages of ICT in education are : many
teachers that haven’t known what ICT is, and buying of ICT equipment is too
expensive.
Nowadays,
technology will develop rapidly and newer, even it is cheaper and stronger will
appear to make the whole of the world more sophisticated. Many efforts that
people do to make the education more sophisticated, like TV and Radio or mobile
phone are used in some school to make learning more interesting and
sophisticated. New internet technology will exist to provide connectivity to
remoter areas, and software that students could get freely from internet to
support education.
In
some school, the teachers have shown to their students some application or
software that they can use in online teaching. It can make their students to be
more creative and make learning more interesting. Some software that the
teachers can use are wallwisher and prezi. Wallwisher looks like facebook, it
can be used for sharing some URL, link web, pictures, audio, video or making
note. Teachers can ask their students to post their assignment on wallwisher,
and the teachers can assess their assignment or give feedback. Prezi, it can be
used for presentation. It looks like power point, but Prezi shows the
presentation more interesting. In power point, the form of presentation is some
slides, but in Prezi, the form of presentation is like a map. The teachers can
zoom out or zoom in.
Planning
Commission said that ICT tools must be used for significantly improving the
educational services and for streamlining the admission process. ICT must be
used to improve learning service. ICT can be used to increase experience in
learning and can improve the quality of research and collaboration by providing
knowledge and information widely because education is a key for growth and
prosperity of a country.
Because of its interactive and dynamic nature, ICT has the potential to
meet the needs of individual students by providing opportunities to direct
their learning and to pursue information, or complete tasks, in ways which meet
their own interests and needs. (Computer based technologies in English KLA,
1997, p6). If the teacher use ICT in learning, it could make students more
creative because they can use multimedia to make the material in learning more
interesting. Using ICT in English could improve students skill in speaking,
listening, reading and writing. Students could get all of the material that
they need from internet in some form like picture, animation, audio or video.
