TPACK, Journal Summary 2

Sonia Lefebvre, Ghislain Samson, Alexandre Gareau, Nancy Brouillette (2016)

 TPACK in Elementary and High School Teachers’ Self-reported Classroom Practices with the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB

Journal article entitled TPACK in Elementary and High School Teachers’ Self-reported Classroom Practices with the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) arranged by Lefebvre, Samson, Gareau, Brouillette (2016)  is aimed to examines the elementary and high school teachers’ self-reported practices with the interactive whiteboard (IWB) specially focus on kinds of knowledge that teachers deployed according to self-reports in discussion groups. Interactive whiteboard itself is an electronic whiteboard device which the teachers can display content project from a computer, tablet or other source. It is usually used for multimedia presentation. Meanwhile, teachers’ self-reported is what teachers do in their class when students are present as well as what they do when they prepare their lesson plans and lesson activities (Lefebvre, 2005). According to Beillerot (2000), the essential feature of ‘practice’ is its double dimensionality. There are actions, behaviors and languages. In the other hand, there are rules, objectives, strategies and ideals.

TPACK, Journal Summary 1

Chew Cheng Meng, Lim Cap Sam (2013)

Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Teaching Mathematics with the Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP) Through Lesson Study (LS)

Chew & Lim (2013) in their journal article entitle Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Teaching Mathematics with the Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP) Through Lesson Study (LS) stated that there are only 26% from 151 total teachers in Malaysia who following the GSP course and only 2% who applying GSP in their teaching and learning activities. GPS itself is a software for constructing and investigating mathematical objects such as geometry, algebra, statistic and so on which can help students to learning math in easier way. In the other hands, Lesson Study is selected as one of potential ways to improve teachers’ learning and supporting to grow professionally because LS conducted by a small group of teachers meet at stipulate time to plan and observe their lesson, discuss and revise their observation collaboratively.

News Flash

iTELL Conference 2018

iTELL (Indonesia Technology English Language Learning) conference is a biennial event held alternately and in cooperation with universities in Indonesia. iTELL 2018 held in best western hotel Surakarta, Solo Central Java at 13-14 March 2018. This event attended not only by teachers, but also by lecturers and students. Cooperate with The University of Sebelas Maret (UNS) Solo and British Council, the recent iTELL conference features the theme of CALL and MALL founder, Mr. GUmawang Jati from ITB as keynote speaker, DR. Nur Arifah Drajati, M.Pd from UNS as the first plenary speakers and Riezky Novyana from British Council as the second plenary speakers was held smoothly and successfully. The next iTELL conference will be held in Bogor the next two years, 2020. 

Second Parallel Speaker

    Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Ayu Astriani (2018). Integrating Video Blog in EFL class for Teaching Speaking

Speaking is one of productive skills that take an important part in English, usually students feeling ashamed when asked to speak, they feeling afraid of making mistakes in pronoun, grammar etc. This study is focus on improving speaking skill by integrating video blog (Vlog) in EFL class, conducted 39 students in experiment and control class. By implemented blended learning, the writer applied vlog learning design: face to face-vlog-face to face-vlog-face to face-vlog for 4 weeks to improving students speaking skill. The instrument of data collection are speaking test, speaking activity and interview. Based on the data, it can be shown that there are significant differences of experiment and control class. Students’ interview result also shows how integrating vlog impact their speaking skill.

Third Parallel Speaker

      Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Eny Kusumawati (2018). The Effect of Watching English Movies Subtitles on ESP students’ content and vocabulary comprehension. A study conducted at an Indonesia polytechnic engineering.

This study is aimed to see the effectiveness of watching English movies with subtitle on students’ content and vocabulary comprehension. Involved 56 students of Politeknik Elektronika Surabaya in 5^th semester with intermediate English proficiency level by using quasi-experimental, the participants divided into 2 groups, they were group A and B. A group was given English movie with subtitle, whether the other group was not. Based on the observation, can be revealed that the students enthusiast about the movie, but unfortunately it do not followed by the comprehension. It means that the result from both groups showed no increase in vocabulary.

DAY 1: First Parallel speakers

       Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Paulus Widiatmoko (2018). EFL Teachers’ cognition on ICT: Relevance for Training and Professional Development.

This study reports a case of EFL English teachers’ cognition towards the use of ICT to facilitate language skill practice. To get the data, the writer implied teaching the teachers by MGMP to mastering and using ICT in teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, open-ended assessment and interview are also applied in this study and can be concluded that the teachers were positive on their attitudes towards computer use, the participants positive beliefs and attitudes toward ICT have been shown to be stronger than their control and intention towards its use which have been confirmed by other findings of this study, in additional complexity of teacher cognition requires comprehensive elaboration of its interrelated aspects.

DAY 2: First Parallel Speaker

     Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Made Agus Mandala Putra. Developing English Learning Materials for Digital Natives using an Android Package Kit (APK) smartphone-based application.

  As time goes by, an innovative English learning material is needed, especially in this digital era. This research purpose is to developing English learning materials using an android package kit (APK). A research and development mixed qualitative and quantitative data analysis this research conducted at the first semester students of an English Education department in North Bali. Designing English materials smartphone-based application used Ms. Power point, Photoshop, and iSpring Pro, the expert judged that the developed material was categorized into a good material.

Second Parallel Speaker

     Wednesday, March 14, 2018. M. Agus Muwafiqi and Umi Rahmawati. The Use of Grammar Ninja to Increase Students’ Writing and Speaking Skill.

The purpose of this research is to increasing elementary students’ writing and speaking through Grammar Ninja Games. Ninja games are choosing because this game can attracted students’ attention, interest, and understanding by the visual appearance, game concept and etc. this research will be applied in EFL classes of elementary school in order to considering students’ assessment and developing understanding after having game.

second Plenary Speaker

Plenary 2, Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Riezky Novyana (British Council, Jakarta)

Cyber Bullying & Child Protection

photo session with Ms. Arifah (the fourth women with yellow veil from right) and Mr. Riezky (in the middle)

In digital era, most of people around the world are connecting to the internet ranging from children to adult. Based on the data, 7/10 children under 17 years old are connecting to internet, they also have their own devices such smartphone and laptop. It’s important to build their awareness of digital dangers and privacy breach considering there are so many crimes lurking especially on children via internet. Many examples of cases of sexual harassment, cyber bullying against children via the internet based on data continues to increase each year.

Teachers, parents and environment are responsible for protecting the children from internet danger. We have to educating and guiding our children in using internet. Which one is able and unable to do when we are connecting to internet. It’s important in order to prevent the occurrence of sexual harassment or cyber bullying.

Plenary Speaker

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Nur Arifah Drajati, M.Pd

Title:  TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge): The Concept and Practice in the Classroom

What is TPACK? TPACK is a framework for teachers in teaching the course with technology to engage and enhance to achieve the effectiveness of the students’ learning (Drajati, 2018).

·         Pedagogical knowledge:

-          How instructional strategy, teaching methods and instructional strategy apply in the classroom.

-          Project based learning

-          Think-Pair-Share (refers to TPACK)

·         Technological Knowledge:

-          How to use technology

-          Select-use-integrate to curriculum

-          New insight for students in learning

·         Content Knowledge:

-          Facts

-          Concepts

-          Theories

Koehler & Mishra in Drajati (2018) stated that content, pedagogy and technology boost new knowledge for students in learning new concepts in practical ways.

Ms Drajati also giving example the use of TPACK in teaching and learning activities such as:

In how many ways can you teach the topic of energy conservation with ICT?

Figure 1. ways to teach the students with ICT

Based on figure 1, we can see that when the teacher is stimulating the students by showing Youtube videos, it would impulse students’ curiousness. They will start search and explore the material through the web and create concept maps by their selves naturally. At the end students are able to create their own digital stories.

In additional, according to Ms. Drajati’s studies, teachers who has teaching experience ranging from 1-3 years has more varieties in making use of technology tools in their teaching and learning activities. They knew and applied almost all varieties of recent technology in their classroom, such as youtube, social media, video, comics etc. In contrast, the teachers who has more than 10 years teaching experienced and pre-service teachers use the modest technology such as power point and video in creating classroom more active and alive.

Workshop

Workshop: Grace Nathania Clara Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Kahoot! Bring the fun into the classroom

Here is, one of the best workshop speakers in iTell conference. Grace Nathania  Clara from ITB (The institute of Technology Bandung) who present the use of kahoot! It's an amazing experience to attended her workshop. At the time, she asked the participants to playing the Kahoot! game she made. When the game is started, the atmosphere of competition is felt among the participants. Everyone want to winning the game. Actually, it was a simply question, but because she covered the questions into the game, it become more exciting.

And now, this is the resume that can be concluded through the workshop:

One of the fun ways to teach students in with games, especially digital games. The digital game used is kahoot! Kahoot! It self is one of games-based learning and trivia platform used in classrooms, offices and social settings. Kahoot is able to help the teachers to create their own games based on the students’ need.

Keynote Speaker

Keynote speakers Tuesday, March 13, 2018

TELL: From resource to thinking skills

A. Gumawang Jati  

Selfie with Mr. Gumawang Jati (the one with the glasses)

The presentation about covering the influence of web including artificial intelligence (A.I) in ELT such as Kahoot, Padlet, Robin, TuneIn Radio, and so on, what the materials and sources provided by internet. In addition, the presentation also described some mobile-phone applications appropriate for interactive learning. The possibilities of using technology in classroom also discussed in order to reach interactive and attractive teaching and learning activities.

Workshop

A Workshop by: Finita dewi

A small step to unpacking students’ design thinking skill (DTS) in language classes 

Design thinking skill has introduced as steps into two skills needed: critical thinking and problem solving. Design thinking skill can help the students to exploring their abilities and possibilities to innovate and learn while designing their own ways of learning and creating. Meanwhile, to the workshop participants, this studies is aimed to be introduces to the   five stages of design thinking, be involved in discussion on possible tasks to foster DTS in EFL and to explore some possible technology tools to support the DTS-based task.

Additional

Photo with Ms. Eny Kusumawati, one of the most inspiring speakers in parallel section. In my opinion,every parts of her studied about The Effect of Watching English Movies Subtitles on ESP students’ content and vocabulary comprehension were so great, start from the findings, the facts, and the results of her studies.

Intermezzo

 Pose with Ma'm Itje Chodijah.

  as a part of "people zaman now" don't forget to showing off the meals. Happy Meals ^^