Summary of iTell Conference 2018
Keynote Speech: TELL: From Resources
to Thinking Skills
Speaker: A. Gumawang Jati (ITB)
Summary:
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Gumawang started his speech by quoting Herold (2016) saying that the presence
of internet the development of IT have influenced the way students learn. ICT
have impacted the teaching in and learning process largely on classroom
practice and the selected materials. He highlighted valuable resources of
teaching and learning process available from the internet.
In the second half of his speech, the speaker introduced some sites
and apps that can be used in language learning such as Robin, Canva, Essay
Grader, Kahoot, and many more, and how some apps can be elaborated in classroom
practice. He also demonstrated how to use the apps and the features that they
have. He said they he had not tried all of apps particularly for the teaching
and learning process so he challenged the audience to think about how to use
them in teaching language.
Plenary 1: TPACK: The Concept and
Practice in the Classroom
Speaker: DR. Nur Arifah Drajati,
M.Pd. (UNS)
Summary:
The
speaker started the presentation by highlighting the increasing growth of
technology that recently happens and how it can give new insights to teachers
in developing their teaching and learning process in the classroom.
However, incorporating technology in
the TL process is challenging for teachers. According to Mishra and Koehler
(2006), there is still lack of space for teachers to use technology in the
classroom. The speaker highlighted that pedagogical and content knowledge are
needed in the language TL process. According to the speaker, TPACK is a
framework of integrating technology in language learning.
From her presentation, it implies that the use of technology in language
learning based on TPACK framework can motivate the teachers and make them more
confident, help teachers to design their lesson, and motivate the students as
well.
Pleanary 2: Cyber Bullying &
Child Protection
Speaker: Riezky Novyana (British
Council, Jakarta)
Summary:
It is obvious that the rapid growth
of information technology give advantages to internet users especially to young
people (millennial) who feel safer, more confident, and more comfortable using
online interactions than the offline ones. However, just like a coin, IT
developments also brings inevitable risks to the users.
There were three videos played during the presentation to illustrate
how digital world can endanger young people. The speaker showed us a video
about how a magician could know everything about his clients’ life. It was not
about the magical power he had but it was because social media. There was also
video about a teenage school who at first felt happy as she was getting popular
due to her posts in social media but the happiness turned into bad feeling
where all people knew everything about her even about the most private thing.
Another video he played was the one about Amanda Tod, a teenager who cut
herself because of getting bullied. These videos show that online interactions
can make young people or teenagers particularly millennial and Gen Z exposed to
digital dangers.
Therefore, the awareness of digital dangers and privacy breach
should be raised in order to safeguard our children from cyber bully and other
negative impacts of digital threads.
Parallel 1: Tape Me and I Learn More
Presenter: Itje Chodidjah
Summary:
In her public speaking class, Bu Itje find some
problems such as lack of time, various levels of students, meek behaviour,
problematic syllabus, and low students motivation. Considering this problems
she decided to use video recording activitity.
The speaker asked their students of public speaking class to record
their performance in the form of video. This activity was conducted outside the
class. They listened to their own record and repeated recording when it’s
necessary. When they came back, they had a discussion in groups or pairs to evaluate
the performance. They asked for feedbacks to each other and repeated recording
again based on the feedbacks.
The result of this activity is satisfying in a way that the students
improve their performance in public speaking. They speak more fluently and confidently, use
gesture and filler effectively, and make
more informative and clear speech. The speaker also emphasized that technology
is just a tool. Don’t teach the students about technology. Instead, think about
how to help students to achieve the learning objective.
Paraller 2: VOA Learning English as
an Extensive Listening Resource for Lower Proficiency Students
Presenter: Hasti Rahmaningtyas
(Universitas Negeri Malang)
Summary:
The presenter first
highlighted the importance of extensive listening for language development. However,
there is not enough exposure of listening in the target language, which is
English. When there is lack input or exposure, how can students improve their
listening skill? This issue led the presenter to
conduct a study on using English learning website as students’ resource in
developing their listening skill. VOA was used by the presenter in her study.
Students used VOA for extensive listening outside the class. Questionnaire and
journal weekly entries were used to collect the data about students’ learning
experiences as well as their perspective of using the website.
The result of her study
shows that students were happy with the listening activities because they could
choose the materials that suited their interests and proficiency levels. They
found that learning from VOA Learning English was useful to enrich their world
knowledge and improve their vocabulary mastery.
Paraller 3: EFL Classroom Practices
for Young Learners by Using MALL: What and How do We Teach to Hook Them on
Learning
Presenter: Vitha Ama Matuate (Sanata
Dharma University)
Summary:
The presenter used Mobile-Assisted Language
Learning (MALL) for her students considering that nowadays mobile technology
has become an integral part in students’ daily activities. Mobile devices are
used by students to fulfill many of their basic needs such as doing school assignments,
socializing with friends, and simply playing games to have fun. That is why as
a teacher, the presenter thinks that it’s necessary to relate the students’
enthusiasm in using mobile device to the educational context. In her study, FUN ENGLISH app was used.
The subject of her research is elementary students in Yogyakarta
from three different grades; grade 1, 2, and 3. The finding shows that the use
of FUN ENGLISH as the mobile app integrated in the learning process can improve
the motivation of most students. Compared to traditional way of teaching, she
said that that using mobile phones in the classroom practice is more enjoyable
and convenient.
Paraller 4: The Implementation of
Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) in ELT Practice in Higher Education: Students’
Perspectives
Presenter: Anisatul Kariman (UPI)
Summary:
Due to the rapid growth of technology, it is inevitable that IT will
interfere all aspects of life including education. In other words technology
cannot be separated from classroom practice. That is why the presenter thinks
that teacher should embrace the use of technology in their thinking process.
Moreover, most of students have their own advanced gadget. The presenters
conducted a case study to find out the concept of BYOD in English language
teaching practice particularly related to the use of laptops and smartphones in
the classroom. The participants of the study were a teacher of college level
who implemented the concept in his classroom and students from two of the
teacher’s distinguished class. Online questionnaires were distributed followed
by online interviews to 3 students and the teacher,
The result of the study shows that the students
felt more convenient during the activities. They found the use of their
smartphone in writing activities was helpful. However, some barries also
occured, for example, when they had low battery or when the connectedn was
down.
Paraller 5: The Development of
Students’ Critical Thinking in the Form of Writing by Using Quora as an English
Learning Platform
Presenter: Astrid Daneshwari (Tidar
University)
Summary:
The presenter first
discussed about the incredible change of technology development and how it gave
impact to English learning. Then she introduced as a social medium that can be
used to learn English called Quora. She claimed that Quora was one of the most
helpful platform where the users could share knowledge by creating question to
initiate and stimulate discussion. Therefore, she conducted a research to find
out the development of students’ critical thinking and their writing
comprehension by creating discussion in Quora. The result of the study is that
students feel more confident in delivering their ideas in the discussion.
Workshop 1: A Small Step to
Unpacking Students’ Design Thinking Skill in Language Class
Presenter: Finita Ari (UPI)
Summary:
The workshop aims to demonstrate how
Design Thinking Skill (DTS) can be fostered in the classroom using various
learning activities. Bu Finita started the workshop by asking the audiences to
act as if they were students. There are five stages applied to activate DTS of
the students. They are emphasize, define, ideation, prototype, and test. For the
first step, an interesting and inspiring video about the condition of Citarum River
was played. Then after watching the video, students were asked about their
opinion about the video. Next, students were asked to create a tag in group and
post it Padlet. Then the speaker asked the students to draw students’ idea on a
piece of paper. Based on the idea, students were asked to make a poster using Canva.
From the workshop, I can learn that
activities involving DTS can helps students to think participate in relevant discussion
while designing their own way in innovating and creating.critically and use the
language actively. Moreover, the activities give students opportunity to
Workshop 2: Marrying Online
Project-Based Language Learning with Sutori
Presenter: Desy Indriana (UMY) and
Sheila Anjarani (UMP)
Summary:
The
presenters
started the workshop by talking about the background of using online project-based
language learning. They said that students in this digital era were expected to produce
effective written communication and to be technologically literate. This
objective could be achieved when they got support from teachers and did plenty
of practices. They added that the classical way of teaching writing could demotivate
students because most of them found it boring. The presenters highlighted that the use
of technology could benefit the students.
In the workshop, the presenters introduced us Sutori
application. It is one among many widely available applications that can be
used to assist students in the teaching and learning process. It is a tool
specially designed for creating interactive writings. The application provides
options to craft multimedia projects, create text links, and generate multiple
choice questions. So, during the
workshop, the presenter shows the audience how to use the apps particularly
about the process and procedure on how teachers can incorporate this app for
teaching. In addition, some possible tasks and activities were also explored.
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