iTELL Conference 2018

 CALL AND MALL: ENHANCE THE THINKING SKILL

Surakarta, 13-14 March 2018 

A.     Parallel Session

Parallel Session is the session which some speakers present their research in front of other participants. Here, there is no question and answer session. In below, there are some presenters who the writer resume.

1.       EFL teachers’Cognition on ICT: Relevance for Training and Professional Development by Paulus Widiatmoko

In the 21st century, technology has developed quickly. Many technologies can be used for English learning process. Teachers should use technology in their teaching and learning process because almost the students master technology.

            There are nine skills for 21st century teachers which are explained by the presenter. They are:

1. Record and edit audio clips by using soundcloud.com, audioboom.com, vocaroo.com and clyp.it
2. Create interactive video content by using youtube video editor, wevideo.com, magisgto.com, and animato.com
3. Create infographics and posters by using piktochart.com, canva.com. drawing.google.com, and thinglink.com
4. Create PLNs, connect, discover new content, and grow proffesionally
5. Use blogs and wikis to create parcipatory spaces for students
6. Create engaging presentations
7. Create digital portofolios
8. Curate, organize and share digital resources
9. Create digital quizzes

 The participants of the research are members of MGMP Senior High School English teachers in Bantul, Yogyakarta.most of them are in the age 36-46. They consist of 26,3percent males and the rest are females. 44,7 percent teachers have experience using computer and have been teaching for 6-fifteen years, 26 percent teachers  have experience using computer and have been teaching for 16-twenty five years and the rest are 2,6 percent have experience using computer and have been teaching for 26-3 years old.

The presenter gave the English teachers a workshop. They were taught of applications and technology that can be used in English teaching learning process. The findings show that participants are positive on their attitudes towards computer use. Despite their enthusiasm and active involved in many of them faced technical difficulties working with computers in various problems. Many of the participants observably request spoken and visual explanation of the procedures using somputers. And these teachers needed personal assistant.

Photo of Paulus Widyatmoko’s  Presentation

2.   The Effect of Watching English Movies with Subtitles on ESP students’ content and vocabulary by Eny Kusumawati

The presenter is interested to conduct the research on her  students because teaching english for ESP students is challenging. The presenter look for a method which the students can feel happy to learn English. Dudley Evans and St. John explained that 1) ESP is defined to meet specific needs of learners, 2) ESP makes use of underlying methodology and activities of disciplines it serves, and 3) ESP is centered on the language application to these activities in terms of grammar, register, study skill, discourse and other skill.

The research is conducted in Politeknik Negeri Surabaya. The aims of the study are: 1) is thereany influence using subtitles and without subtitles on the students’ ESP reading comprehension, 2) is there any influence on the group treatment with movie subtitles and the group without movie subtitles on their content of the movie, and 3) is there any influence on the group treatment with movie subtitles and the group without movie subtitles on their vocabulary of the movie?.

There are fifty six students of Politeknik Negeri Surabaya in the fifth semester with intermediate English Proficiency level. They are 27 students of Mechatronis and 2nine students of Industrial Electronis. The research uses quasi-experimental. The participants are divided into 2 groups according to their department [Mechathronics department and industrial department). There are two types of data colloction; a) quiz [given at the end of post test session) and b)questionnaires.

The film that is used entitled Trancendence. They know the film and they like the film so much. However, the findings show that the students’ vocabulary and content is not increased. The presenter said that it can happen because the students only have fun with the movie without understanding the vocabulary or the content. The presenter also give suggestions for other participans in parallel session to give the students the materials which related to technology but it can increase the motivation and English skills of the students.

Photo of Eny Kusumawati’s Presentation

      3.     Tap Me and I Learn More by Itje Chodijah

This research is about the students who are given integrated learning using technology and conducted by Itje Chodijah. There are some reasons which make the presenter conduct the research. Here are the reasons: a) Unstatiesfied with time allocated for public speaking and academic speaking class, b) Students meek behaviour, c) Students motivation, d) Various students’ Eglish competencies and e) Problematic syllabus. And also this project has some purposes. They are

1. To lead students to find their own competence and find the gap between where they are and what to achieve.
2. To develop digital literacy and critical thinking
3. To encourage students to realize that technology help them.

There are 17 students in the presenter’s class who become the object of the research. In the first meeting, the researcher explained what public speaking is, why it is an essential skill in 21st century and ask the students to make video theirslves maximum 2 minutes about themselves. Mrs Itje also added that we are as the teacher or lecturer not only just delivering material but we have to get the objective. That is what the students achieve.

Here are the process of the learning which the speaker conducted:

1. The students are asked to record themselves as the best as possible in different theme.
2. After they have recorded, Mrs Itje and the students have discussed the video. Then share and evaluate the recorded, whether it is good and it is bad.
3. Mrs Itje evaluated the sight of the eye, the body language, and how they catch the audience intention. Thus, she is not focused on the grammar.

      Of course, this research have many benefits for the students. The students learned to:

1. Control their body language
2. Eliminate shyness
3. Control time when talking, in the first time, the students waste the time for only introduction.
4. Correct their mistakes
5. Practise speaking more spontaneously in public
6. Train mental before speaking in public
7. Vocabulary
8. Assess and correct themselves
9. Confident
10. Control their own progress
11. Learn how to cite from different resources, so they do not copy paste from the internet, they have to cite what the resources are.

In this research, the lecture session become more flexible because the students did not rely on the lecturer. They can control and learn by themselves. And for the closing, Mrs Itje gives her closing statement “When we do teaching, learning objective is the key, appreciate the students, materials and application are only tools. However, learning is human nature.”

Photo of Parallel Session, Itje Chodijah, with with Post-Graduate Students of Sebelas Maret University

4.   The teaching of integrated skills of English through Mobile-based Digital Storytelling Project to Indonesian EFL students by Laily Amin Fajariyah

    

     One of the goals of English Instruction in Curriculum 2006 is to develop the students’ competence in oral and written communications to achieve the functional literacy level [Permendiknas no 22 tahun 2006). However, some skills are overlooked due to UN. The researcher wants to make a fun English learning for the students because most teachers and students are focused on the best UN achievement. Then the researcher observed that the school is quite well facilitated and smartphone is owned by 66,67 percent of students. And also, the Z generation are confident and comfortable with technologies. Becuase of these reasons, the researcher conduct the research of Project-Based Learning in the 21^st century.

       The presenter planned the teaching learning process of procedure text using KineMaster for making video. KineMaster-Pro Video Editor can be downloaded in the playstore. The steps of teaching learning process are a) selecting topic, b) designing script and storyboard, c) making digital story telling using KineMaster, c) evaluating, and d) publication through facebook or youtube.

This project is believed to: a) make students happy during the learning process, b) improve students’ participation, c) improve students’ writing and speaking skill especially on procedure text, d) improve collaboration among students, e) improve students’ creativity, and f) improve students’ ICT skill especially story telling using KineMaster.

Photo of Laily Amin’s Presentation

5.    Integrating Padlet, Kahoot!, and Video Makes Apps in Teaching Procedure Text: Technology Enhanceed Language Learning for Grade XI in SMPN 4 Bandung by Dian Harnita

“Children cannot be effective in tomorrow’s world if they are trained in yesterday’s skills” [UK Department for Education and Employment, 1997, foreword, cited in Yang: 2012)

The statement above makes the presenter conducted the teaching learning process using technology in her class. The applications that she used are Padlet, Kahoot, Worditout, and Photostory. These applications can be used for enhancing students’ interest and comprehension. There are some stages in integrating technology in teaching procedure text. The steps are: a) Building knowledge of the text, b) Modelling of the text, c) differences between manual and recipe in procedure text, d) Review social function and features of procedure text using Kahoot! application, explanation of design story board and Photo Story, e) making story board and collect materials, and f) editing and padleting the videos.

To prepare competitive human resources, integrating technology into classroom is a necessity. However, there should be an intense support and mentoring from the teacher to the students, no matter how sophisticated the tools are, teacher is still the most influential ‘tool’ in the classroom. That is the closing statement from the presenter.

Photo of Dian Harnita’s Presentation

 

B.        Workshop

         Workshop is a session which train the participants a skill or using the technology or application. The application can be used for integrating in teaching learning process especially English lesson. It is very useful for teachers and students as participants.

1.         Kahoot!: Bring the Fun into the Classroom! By Grace Nathania Clara Sabandar and Yessy Zakaria

 In this workshop the presenter, Grace, trained us to learn the strategies to incorporate Kahoot in teaching learning process. Here, participants learn how to play Kahoot. Participants are as the students and the presenter as the teacher. It is so fun especially for people who never play the game and have to answer the correct grammar at once. This game is very useful for the teacher to integrate it in teaching learning process. The teacher can know the quickest student who answer, and also who answer correctly and wrongly. Then, the presenter lead the participants to make Kahoot account. Firstly, participants have to go to the website kahoot.com, sign up and make the questions for the game. In the process of signing up, Grace and Yessy assist the participants if there is a problem. In conlusion, the participants have trained how to use Kahoot application and how to make Kahoot account. 

2.    A Small Step to Unpacking Students’ Design Thinking Skill in Language Classes by Gumawang Jati and Finita Dewi

     

           There are two speakers in this workshop. They are Mr Gumawang and Ms Finita. They trained the participants how to use canva. Firstly, they showed the participants a video about water pollution in Bandung. After that, the participants are asked to think what we can do for that problem. Then, the speakers asked the participants to make a tag line for persuading other people to attention of this problem. Then, the participants have to put some pictures which related to the tagline. And the participants were trained to make a design campaign poster using canva. 

           Besides, the speakers also explained the stages of integrating Canva in teaching learning process. They are: 1) Identify the opportunities; the teacher can give a video to wacth and discuss the problem, 2) design; in this process, it can be brainstorm ideas, discuss in group and get input from the teacher, 3) prototype; in this process the teacher asks the students to create a draft for making campaign poster, 4) get feedback; a group can pitch ideas form other group, and ) present; the students present the final digital poster. Mr Gumawang gave a suggestion to not introduce the tool firstly. If the teacher introduce the tool first, the students will not focus on language learning.
 

C.        Seminar 

          The seminar was conducted in Main Hall of Best Premier Solo. There are a keynote speaker and two plenary speakers. They gave many useful knowledge about the concept  of TPACK, the practice in technology, and cyber crime of internet. Here are the resume of what the speakers presented.

1.         TELL: From Resources to Thinking Skills by Dr. A. Gumawang Jati, M.A.

  In this era, all of things has been moved to technology. For example, market can become online shop, taxi becomes online car, and many others. In addition, technology can be integrated in teaching learning process in classroom. Technology gives impacts for eduation. They are classroom practice and available material.

  Mr Gumawang, as English Lecturer in ITB, said that there are many tools of technology which can be integrated for teaching learning process in class. In this session, he gave many useful websites or tools that can be used. They are:

1.      Ello.org; it is used for learning listening skill
2.      Breakingnewsenglish.com; it is used for giving exercise
3.      Teachingkidsnews.com; it is used for children learners
4.      Learnenglishteens.com; it is used for teenager learners
5.      Orai; it is used for public speaking

  Those are appllications which are ready made. The teachers or lecturers only ask the students to use the application when it is needed or when the specific skills are taught.

  The other applications which teacher can make the questions are Kahoot.com, edpuzzle.com, onlinequizcreator.com. In addition, there are also some websites which increase the students’ creativity, such as padlet.com, canva.com, and screencast-o-matic.com

            He empahasized on giving many websites and tools which have been available and can be integrated in teaching learning process. This is conducted in order that the students have been prepared for their future in sophicticated technology era.

Photo of Keynote Speaker, Dr. A. Gumawang Jati, M.A., with Post-Graduate Students of Sebelas Maret University

2.         TPACK: The Concept and Practice to Build Multimodal Literacy 21st Century by Dr. Nur Arifah Drajati

Speech by Dr. Nur Arifah Drajati

           Mrs Arifah, an English Lecturer of Sebelas Maret University, presented the concept of TPACK and its practice in teaching. Theoretical conception of TPACK itself comes from Shulman with his research program “Knowledge Growth in Teaching” thought about teachers’ disparity. It is about: a) how teacher has new knowledge, b) how old knowledge retrieved and linked to form new information, c) what are the sources of teachers’ information, d) what is teacher’s information and e) how to get information. For more than fifty years, the theoretical concept has been thought. Shulman also explained three things. They are subject matter content, pedagogical content knowledge, and curricular knowledge. Then, this theory was continued by Kohler and Mishra in 200nine. It is about content, pedagogy, and technology boost new knowledge for students in learning new concepts in practical ways. This theory discussed about how use technology in teaching and learning process. In most of teaching learning process, it is only learned about technology or only pedagogy without using technology or only using textbook/ content knowledge. There are many resources for getting knowledge from everywhere, such as book, internet, journal, and other resources.

      There are 3 important points of theoretical concept of TPACK:

1. Content Knowledge is talking about fact, concept and theories.
2. Pedagogical Knowledge is talking about how instructional strategy, teaching methods and instructional strategy applied in classroom, such as project based learning and think-pair-share.
3. Technological Knowledge is talking about how to integrate the technology in classroom, select-use-integrate into the curriculum, and new insight for students in learning.

The importance thing is how teachers can integrate technology in their classroom because in this era the teachers should make the students feel fun and understand of the learning and also many of sophisticated technology can be integrated in classroom.

The speaker also presents the practice of TPACK. In Singapore, there are four design of QL which created by Chai and Koh [2006). They are: 1) Active Learning, 2) Authentic Learning, 3) Reflective Learning and 4) Collaborative Learning. The speaker also shared her experienced when she was teaching, she asked the students to read the books [extensive reading) and making story by themselves. In addition, when the speaker becomes a lecturer, the students were asked to join conference, have discussion and write blog and journal.

For conlusion, the speaker gave suggestion to integrate technology in teaching learning process in order that the students can enhance knowledge and have good experience with their teacher.

3.         Cyber Bullying and Child Protection by Riezky Novyana

 Nowadays, sophisticated technology gives impacts to the life. Here, the speaker presentes how bad of cyber bullying especially for children and give attention to the children in using technology. He explained that there are many users of internet in the world. However, some of people use internet for cyber-crime. Mr Riezky also adds that there are many predators who sight on children. Thus, parents’ attention is important to the children in using internet or social media.

 Mr Riezky also explains that there is a tool that can be used to look for someone’s internet usage. That is called digital footprint. It is a trail of data user create while using the internet. It includes the websites that user visits, emails which user sends and information user submit to online services. Som e company also use digital footprint for recruiting the employee. It will help whether the candidates is a cyber criminal or not. He also emphasized on being carefully in using internet for whoever who use it, either children or adult users because every usage of internet will be recorded. Thus, parents should more pay attention to their children.

 He also showed the participants a video of Ananda Todd, a victim of cyber-crime. It is told that she was asked to show her vital body by the predators. Then, she was asked again to show her full body, but she was rejected. Not long time, photo of her vital body became a photo profile of the predator. It really makes she hurt and she was also bullyed in the school. She was very sad. Although she had moved to other environment, she faced problems. She could not stand because no one wanted to hear her story. She felt lonely and finally she died by herself.

 In the end, he emphasized that the participants should be careful and smart in using internet. And for parents, they should pay attention to their children in using internet.

Photo of Plenary Speakers, Riezky Noviana and Dr. Nur Arifah D, with Post-Graduate Students of Sebelas Maret University

D. Conclusion

             Technology is very useful for teaching and learning process if teachers can integrate it in learning process. Thus, this conference is very useful for the participants because they can get and share knowledge each other about TPACK. Hopefully, the conference can be run regularly in period time.