ICT In INDONESIA
According to me, all the time, I just heard about the uses of ICT in education in the development country. How about in Indonesia? I found this and i would like share it with you. This article is written by Wieke Gur, he is the founder of Bahasa Kita, a marketing communication professional and a cross-cultural business strategist in titled The Role of ICT in Indonesian Language Learning and the Teaching of BIPA. .. Let's check it out!
He said that we can use ICT effectively in those ways:
1. Website
A website collects and manages group of web pages, containing information in text, images and all
types of multi-media files:
1. interactive online flash cards for vocabulary and grammar exercise
2. language games
3. video and web conferencing to engage with online distance learning
4. video and online conversation practice with native speakers from Indonesia
5. lesson plans and online materials in formats such as videos, blogs and e-books.
6. audio visual materials to present authentic environment.
Having website will allows us:
1. to seeking behaviour of learners/users
2. to gather information about preferences by users’ implicit choices:
1.1.which hyperlinks are followed,
1.2.which and what type of documents are read,
1.3.how long users spend reading documents.
3. to assess the popularity, importance, and quality of the information being distributed/accesses,
4. to improve Web-site structure/information architecture and search-engine ranking algorithms.
2. Social Media
Social media strategy involves channel selection, content creation and virtual relationship building.
Every social media channel requires different type of content, format and relationship strategy. The emergence of social media platforms has dramatically altered how people share information
not just with their peers, but also the extended groups of influencers that interact with the
large numbers of interconnected users.
3. Channel selection
Social media channel popularity and how people interact in those channels is different from country to
country. What’s popular in Indonesia is not necessary popular in Australia. What works in Indonesia
will not necessary work in Australia.
The type of content you want to put requires defining the goals that should be met beforehand. In
education environment some content types can include:
1. educating customers in learning Indonesian;
2. improving the school reputation;
3. promoting/introducing a new method of learning Indonesian;
4. making learning Indonesian more relevant to Australians, and showcasing how it relates to their
everyday lives in global environment.
4. Relationship Building
Social media provides a host of new ways to talk and listen to your learners and Indonesian language
enthusiasts. Update your social media status regularly if not daily with great content. Always read and
respond to questions and comments. That’s the only way to stay social! If you can last, you will be the
one who make the most of it. Not only because you will have a continuing relationship with the community
but also fans. This in turn will turn them into Indonesian language fans.
5. Slide Share
May
2013 data shows that 10 million presentations have been uploaded to SlideShare.
To succeed at SlideShare your content you have:
1. Be consistent. Your content should have a consistent look and feel. This enhances brand credibility
and solidifies your content as distinctly yours.
2. Be rich with your keywords. Include your key SEO phrases in both the title of the presentation and
in the description, and add tags so it's easy to find.
3. Be embedded in your website. It’s one less click for your audience since the content is fully legible
right on your site.
4. Have a variety of content. Do not just limit yourself to presentations. Upload case studies, whitepapers,
ebooks, infographics, videos, etc. The platform accepts multiple file formats, although it typically
looks best as a PDF.
5. Keep it simple and short. If you have long content, chop it up into multiple presentations for
SlideShare and link it to the next one at the end of each presentation. This will encourage people to
look for more of your content.
6. Include a call to action.
But, he also think that ICT has the disadvantages.
The Disadvantage of ICT
ICT in some ways can give disadvantages in language learning where it reduces the intimacy of students
– teacher relationship and the culture awareness that it may negatively contributes to students
affective feelings in the process of learning. Social media activities will help turning this arduous task
like studying into something enjoyable by meeting and interacting with native speakers from Indonesia
through social networks.
Online learning is best combined with in-class teaching where teacher and students can have a real
face-to-face communication, and off-line activities such as workshops/seminars, special events such as
cultural nights or dinner event, cultural and language tour to Indonesia or in-country learning program.
Yeahh, that is what Wieke Gur said.
For me, as students, we have to help our teachers to practice what they have given to us (using ICT in learning process). Many resources said that the important thing in case the uses of ICT is the teachers. They have been required to be a master of technology. And in my campus (Tanjungpura University) a lot of them have done it. So, that's such a big deal to us to do it also in order to improve our skills.