Social Media as an Educational Tool

Social Media as an Educational Tool

 The examples of Translation Technique:

A.    Amplification

No	(English)	(Indonesian)
1.	I like Spaghetti (Italian Food)	Spaghetti, makanan Italia berupa mie yang di sajikan dengan saus daging tomat dan ditaburi dengan keju
2.	Kecak, the traditional Balinese dance	Tari Kecak
3.	Bangers and Mash	Bnagers and Mash, makanan berisi sosis yang disajikan di atas kentang tumbuk
4.	Kebaya, the traditional blouse-dress combination that originates from Indonesia. It is worn by women in Indonesia and it is more accurately endemic to the Javanese peoples.	Gadis itu memakai kebaya.
5.	Ketoprak, a vegetarian dish from Jakarta, Indonesia, consists of tofu, vegetables and rice cake, rice vermicelli served in peanut sauce. It can also defines as a theatrical genre of Java featuring actors who may also sing to the accompaniment of the gamelan.	Ketoprak

B.     Adaptation

No	(English)	(Indonesian)
1.	Her leg felt like a stone	Tungkai kakinya seperti terpaku
2.	My mothers cooks bacon and gravy for breakfast.	Ibuku membuat daging asap dan kaldu untuk sarapan.
3.	She was very kind. Her heart as white as snow	Dia sangat baik hati. Hatinya seputih kapas
4.	I’ll give you a bell later	Aku akan meneleponmu nanti
5.	She is stuck on him	Dia tergila-gila padanya

C.    Transposition

No	(English)	(Indonesian)
1.	Bachelor of Medical Sciences is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last for 2–4 years.	Sarjana Ilmu kedokteran merupakan lulusan program pendidikan yang telah menempuh pendidikan selama 2-4 tahun.
2.	Adept	Sangat terampil
3.	I have no control over this condition	Saya tidak dapat mengendalikan kondisi ini
4.	You must get the money	Uang itu harus kamu dapatkan
5.	Trade secrets	Rahasia dagang

D.    Modulation

Example:

No	(English)	(Indonesian)
1.	He cuts his finger	Jarinya teriris
2.	Nobody doesn’t care about him	Semua orang perhatian kepadanya.
3.	I will submit the report two days later.	Laporan itu akan saya sampaikan besok lusa.
4.	The question isn’t easy to solve	Soal itu sulit untuk dijawab
5.	There is no comparison	Tiada banding

Digital Technology for ELL

One of the advantages that we can get from digital technologies is for learning activities, especially for the activity of English Language Learning (ELL). In ELL, digital technology is the great choice for students to practice English and have fun while learning English, because it offers interactive and motivational media for students of all ages. With this technology, Students be able to explore more knowledge individually. Digital Technology is not only useful for learners but also is the great choice for teachers to help them teach English. Now, many people are sure to find that digital technology has many benefits for learning and teaching. There are so many educational applications that can help us improving our English skills include listening, speaking, reading, and writing skill. In this occasion, I will give the explanation how elementary teachers can help students improve listening and speaking skills using digital technology. There are five ways.

1.      Provide pre-learning activities that enable students to focus on what is important

These activities might include key vocabulary terms, an outline of what will be taught, study guides and objectives. This information makes it possible for students to know where and how to focus their listening and then develop stronger oral responses that are more focused.

2.      Stop repeating instructions

This advice may go against what teachers typically do, which is to repeat directions or steps multiple times to ensure student comprehension. However, giving instructions multiple times trains students that they do not have to listen the first time, and that the information will be readily available if they choose not to listen.

This doesn’t mean students can’t ask clarifying questions, nor does it mean the information is no longer available after the teacher stops talking. Teachers must be clear that students can ask them to clarify themselves, or can ask peers for information prior to asking the teacher to repeat him or herself.

3.      Model good listening and speaking behavior for students

Students learn by how teachers listen and speak, which means it is important for educators to model the behaviors they wish students to emulate. This means that teachers need to practice good listening skills (focusing their full attention on the speaker without interrupting) and good speaking skills — paraphrasing the other person’s ideas before responding, clearly articulating ideas and using correct grammar and structure.

4.      Provide structured activities for students to do during or after the listening activity.

If students are watching a documentary or educational film, the teacher might pause periodically to have students write down questions. Alternatively, if students are participating in a group discussion, tell them to take turns as the speaker and provide specific instructions for those who are listening. This might involve taking notes on what the speaker is saying and reporting or paraphrasing their contributions. This strategies allows students to focus their points or ideas before participating in discussions.

5.      Create ways for introverted students to participate and contribute to conversations

Quiet or introverted students often get left out of large group discussions. In order to make participation easier for them, allow students to show their agreement or disagreement with an idea by holding up two fingers for “yes” or three fingers for “no.” This allows all students to participate and indicate they have been listening as well as respond in a way that best suits their needs.

Several educational Applications to improve writing skills.

a)   ProWritingAid

 If you haven't already added ProWritingAid to your writer's toolbox, do it now. This free online app helps you edit your work in a much faster and more efficient way. It highlights a whole range of potential writing pitfalls like overly complicated sentences, vague and abstract language, passive voice, or repetitive words and phrases (24 writing reports in total). Give it a try.

b)     Bubbl.us

 Getting started on an essay, novel, or any form of writing may require some brainstorming. This website allows you to quickly and easily brainstorm or create a map for your ideas. This simple, easy-to-use site makes it painless to organize ideas with the use of customization of bubble color, text size and formatting, and even hyperlinks. This site is free to use, and you don’t even need to make an account unless you want to save your data.

c)      WiseMapping

WiseMapping is free and easy to register for on the internet. Input simple information, such as your name, email address, and a username and password, to become a member and gain access to this mind mapping tool. WiseMapping is fairly basic, but can really help when it comes to brainstorming or problem solving.

d)     yWriter5

Designed by Simon Haynes, a writer and computer programmer, yWriter5 is a useful tool for novelists. yWriter5 breaks your novel up into scenes and chapters for you while you write, making it easier to manage. Among many other things, this software tracks your progress, and makes it easy to rearrange your novel with its drag and drop capabilities.

Several educational Applications for improving reading skills.

a)      Reading Comprehension: Focusing on non-fiction texts and assessment, with the ability to create your own lessons (text + assessment).

b)      Rainbow Sentences: Like SentenceBuilder, this app focuses on sentence fluency. The who/what/where/why/when of each sentence are color-coded to emphasize word function.

c)      Kids Reading Comprehension Level 1

Similar to the previous two comprehension apps, this provides short passages and brief assessments at their conclusion. Comprehension here is addressed through brief bursts of non-fiction text with the expectation of assessment at the end.

d)     SentenceBuilder: Helping students compose grammatically correct sentences, which helps both reading and writing fluency.

e)      StoryBuilder: Provide an easy-to-use framework to help learners create and understand stories and basic narrative sequence.

Digital Technology for English Language Teaching

In this early part of the 21st century the use of technology in language teaching has become a familiar thing to do. The ways to use of technology in classroom to teach language have become familiar for teachers to teach language practice. Using digital technologies for English language teaching for example, can help and facilitate the teachers to teach English with many kind of teaching practice ways. It supports teachers to differentiate instruction classroom activities such as homework or assignments that enhancing the language learning experience. It can also encourage collaboration and increases the ‘fun’ factor for learners. for example, if we teach language for young your learners using games in computer, songs, dance, and story through some application, it will more fun than using traditional teaching process. Furthermore, if we access to the Internet and social media to search materials source, it can develops our intercultural skills and promotes global awareness.

I argue that digital technologies are ideally placed to help teachers working with learners, and learners working independently. Teachers and learners can go online to read or listen to material about different areas of interest, and can then write or speak about what they have discovered and telling others in the class. For example, if the learners take writing as a starting point, with technology it can show our spelling or grammar needs work, and based on that feedback can make changes to improve the text. Technology makes this much easier, and makes it more likely that learners will engage with the editing process to produce the highest-quality text. For teachers, they can use technology such as using Power point to present grammar, playing podcasts to practice listening skill and use some application that support their teaching process.

Technology has become an important role and can be a great asset for the teachers in ESL classrooms. There are ten ways to use technology in ESL instruction based on BusyTeacher.org that the teachers can use to support them in language teaching process.

1. Film and Video: Using short and feature-length videos is an engaging way to work on skills like vocabulary and comprehension. Videos help to expose students to the use of natural English. Young children really enjoy short cartoons and animated movies, and older students can learn about current events through news broadcasts.

2. Apps: Apps on iPads and tablets are great ways for students to practice English and have fun while doing learning language. For example, for practicing grammar rules, apps like Grammar Up allow students to test their knowledge on specific topics (verbs, prepositions, etc.).

3. Digital Field Trips

4. Podcasts: Podcasts is a form of digital media that consists of an episodic series of audio, video, digital radio, PDF, or ePubs files subscribed to and downloaded automatically through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.

5. Pen Pals: Pen Pals mean people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. This is a great way for them to practice their English writing and reading comprehension skills.

6. Web Quests: Students are given a task and rely on their content knowledge and grasp of English language to complete it. Teachers can create their own or visit Web Quests to access tutorials and databases of pre-created web quests.

7. Online Games: Students can master spelling, grammar and other English skills by playing games on the computer or mobile devices.

8. Blogging: Class blogs provide great forums for students to practice their writing skills such as Live Journal, Edublog and Blogger, allow you to create blogs for free. The more they practice their writing skills, the more proficient they become.

9. Skype: Skype is a great way for students to practice their speaking and listening skills with other people from any location.

10. Other Resources

Instructions with Technologies for Middle School Classrooms

Introducing the technology for middle school classroom is the effective way to prepare the students in the global competition. The use of technology tools in middle school classroom is to allow students to apply computer and technology skills in learning and problem-solving. It can support classroom instruction by creating opportunities for students to complete assignments on the computer rather than the normal daily tools like pencil and paper. There are several fun ways to use technology in the middle school classroom; they are video streaming, play games, social media, blogging, video conferencing.

In this globalization era, technology has driven the teachers teach and the students learn. Technology will help teachers execute collaborative teaching strategies combined with professional learning that better prepare and enhance educators' competencies and expertise over the course of their careers. Goals addressed include competency of online tools for teaching, creating ways to collaborate, curate, present and implement online resources into a curriculum, and knowledge of online safety procedures and conduct codes for students and teachers. It also will allow the students to interact with material on the computer. For example, it shows the 3D virtual explanation given by the teachers, audio and also tactile. Moreover, students may have more chance to explore numerous resources from all around the globe. By serving the instruction in multimedia, digital art, music, and online discourse for middle school classroom, it can increase the students’ enthusiasm for learning with technology and can stimulate student’s strategic thinking process because they can use a variety of communication media to express their ideas.

Online Social Media Applications for Language Teaching and Learning

Being generation in high technology era, people need to be more creative and innovative. As teachers for example, we need to think creatively to crate our teaching and learning process. In this moment, there are so many ways to do teaching and learning process using new high technology. As an example is doing teaching and learning process by using online social media application. As language teachers, we can utilize a kind of online social media applications to be implicated in our teaching. Social media is interactive form of media that allow the users to interact with each other’s. 

There are so many applications support in teaching and learning language process.

Edublogs (https://edublogs.org/). An Edublogs is a blog created for educational purposes. Edublog archive and support student and teacher learning by facilitating reflection, questioning by self and others, collaboration and by providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.

Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com/). Edmodo is a global education network that helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with student, colleagues, and parents.

Moodle (https://www.moodle.org/). Moodle is a learning platform designed. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.

Google Forms (https://www.google.com/forms/about/). Google Apps on line services provide productivity and collaboration tools accessible from any Internet connection. It’s a great way to receive feedback from the whole class at the end of a semester.

Animoto (https://www.animoto.com/). Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Those are some online social media application that the language teachers can be used. Moreover, there are still many or other application that can be used by the teacher. For teachers who teach how to present, create, and code, the application recommended, they are TED-Ed is to park student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. Haikudeck is to create interesting presentation. Draw and tell is to increase creative confidence in kids of all ages. iMovie is for student video creation. Instructables is to share ideas and intructions. Hopscotch is to learn computer science fundamentals.

For everyday classroom need, there are some application recommended as follows; Evernote is a modern workspace. Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard. Educreations is to create new videos for learning. Oxford Dictionaries is an online English dictionary. For collaborating in school project, the online application recommended are Slack, Google Apps for Education include Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sites, and a GAFE account. Mindmeister is a quickly visualize and create a project outline together, and Wikispaces.