Humanistic Study: Introduction #Week1

What I like of being a SSE student is this. We, as an English teacher candidates do not only study about English itself but also learn how someday we can deal with the real situation in teaching and learning. It’s very important subject to be studied, indeed. 

As a teacher we’re going to teach students with many characters, backgrounds, cultures, and religions they bring. From the first session, I learned that humanistic studied how individual have freedom to express what they feel. We have to admit that there will be so many differences on it. This is one of the reasons why we have to learn humanistic. It’s not easy to blend the differences into one that can be expected. It’s also hard to piece together our point of view towards other. It shows us why it happened to war in this world. Sometimes, it’s not take place because of big thing, but more likely because of small thing, for example, hatred of other culture, hatred of other religion. What we feel can cause war, if we can’t handle the differences around us.

I expect by this course, I can deal with those differences and blend them into peace. Regarding as a teacher, I have an important role to be getting on with. I have to make the differences among my students next is not sort of a big deal. I want to know how to behave towards other culture and religion. We have to respect towards other and teach our students to do it so. In this course, we will learn more on culture and religion. This is also the most crucial things we have to respect towards other. If we don’t carefully pay attention to it, we can offend other people. Some little jokes can cause disunity. It’s still fresh in our mind, how religion can cause a massive massacre in Poso. So, it’s very important to study about humanistic for the sake of our future as a teacher. Besides, I hope my lecturer can give some issues and new knowledge we have to think about to deeper our understanding in humanistic. Discussion and debate would be very interesting to sharpen our critical thinking.

Speaking of which, I am as an individual still need to learn how to respect other. I can respect towards other people. But I can’t lie; in my mind I have so many though about it. About what I have read, watch, and listen about them. I can’t completely remove several influences from what people said that someday may change my perspective to others. So, I hope by joining this class, I can know what should I do or what should I behave towards others appropriately. 

And, not to forget, make peace with other people.

TLL: Introduction #Week1

When I heard about this subject, it’s like I was on the edge of my seat! I’ll learn about technology in language learning! What kind of technology I should applied in. What technique I should use. I can’t wait for the next session!

As you know technology is the most sophisticated things that human ever made to make this life easier than before. With technology we can create any impossible thing to make it happen possible. For instance, the age when mobile phone hasn’t founded yet, we need more than a month to give information to our family in other city. Now, we just type and send. Our information will be delivered in second.

Lately, internet is the other most popular things which people use, especially in education field. In my previous study, we use online examination on ICT lesson. It’s very helpful both teacher and students. So, we have to click the answer and submit it. Later, there will come up our result, how many right or wrong answers we made. My ICT teacher made it. He also made brief explanations of each question. It shows us that technology made the examination become much easier.

In learning language, there’s a term called CALL—Computer Assisted Language Learning. Throughout the year, CALL has been developed due to technology development itself; from drill and practice, communicative design to the usage of multimedia and internet nowadays. CALL is a popular way in the language learning and teaching. Many governments in Indonesia have developed ICT on each school. They begin to think that ICT is the best way in the language learning and teaching. But that also doesn’t mean technology solve all problems of learning language. There are also disadvantages of technology because of the variety of human characters and situation. What I want to say is we should not depend only on technology.

But somehow, as a teacher to be, we still have to learn and master technology. Like what Pak Teguh — my TLL lecturer, said we’re going to teach digital generations which are our future students. Basically, we are also a digital generation, so it means no excuse for us to deeper our skill using technology.

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