LEARNING RESOURCES

LEARNING RESOURCES

THE TECHNOLOGY PYRAMID

Technologies and the tools in the classrooms should be seen as a tool, not a methodologies. These are some situation in the classrooms where neither the students and teacher have nothing at all in terms of educational technology.

THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES

Students can be the most useful resources in the classrooms by using their thought, experiences and acting out using their body. They can be a good resources for explaining and practising the meaning by sharing : be a “living clocks” (studying about the times) using their arms and their fingers.

OBJECT, PICTURES AND THINGS

Realia : benda nyata

Pictures : drills (digunakan untuk melatih grammar, sentence atau practising vocab), (communication) games (digunakan untuk pelatihan menulis), understanding (untuk mengetahui sejauh mana pemahaman siswa mengenai topik pembelajaran), ornaments (gambaran visual mengenai sesuatu e.g: artikel koran), prediction (membantu siswa utk memprediksi materi), discussion.

Cards : matching and ordering (bagus untuk kinaesthetic learners), selecting (phonetics and phonology), card games (“snap” satu kelompok gambar, satu kelompok kata)

Cuisenaire rods : alternatif menggunakan batang dengan ukuran dan warna yang berbeda (colours, comparative, superlative, semantic, etc)

COURSEBOOK

Benefits : membantu utk menyiapkan materi, dilengkapi dengan teks motivasi, kaset audio, menarik dengan audio dan visualnya

Restriction : guru terlalu bergantung pada slide presentasi sebagai metode utama, guru cenderung tidak kreatif. 

WAY OF SHOWING

Ø  The board : note pad, explanation aid, picture frame, public workbook, game board, notice-board

Ø  The overhead projector (OHP)

Ø  The flip chart

Ø  Computer based presentation technology

WAY OF LISTENING

Ø  Tape recorders

Ø  Cd players

Ø  Mp3 players

Ø  Podcast

Ø  Ipods

WAY OF FINDING OUT

Ø  Dictionaries : paper dictionaries, cd-rom, electronic pocket dictionaries, online dictionaries

Ø  Concordances

Ø  Searching in the internet : using encyclopedy, webquests

WAYS OF COMPOSING

Ø  Word processing, word editing

Ø  Mousepals, chat and blogging

Ø  Authoring

Ø  Designing websites