Week 10 - Reflection

I felt that every moments that we had in the short course will gradually disappearing as it gets to the end. I could not phrase anything to illustrate how I will miss the great discussions that we had for the last 10 weeks in nicenet. I have undoubtedly master a great number of new knowledge from the interactions in the thread and the excellent lessons that Robert organized. This is my most valuable experience in learning integrating web-technology in language learning.

The week's discussion is very much discussing about the class participants reflection on their most relevant discussion in the course that they will use in their real language class and how they grade the level of technology utilization in their class based on the LoTi taxonomy of teaching innovation. However, in my opinion, the LoTi levels of innovative teaching is somehow does not clearly distinguishable.  One might found that the criteria are described in more than one levels. Nevertheless, having the tiers could help a teacher of knowing what is the expansion of certain technology utilization in their class.

Finally, this will be my last reflection for the course, and I hope I can keep posting to this blog for many other reflection of similar topic.

Thank you Robert and all of the class participants,
I wish great success for everybody. May God bless you all.

Sincerely,
Rahmat

Week 9 - Reflection

I am facing students having similar sytle of learning. My students are mostly having side jobs and having very limited time to study apart from classroom activities. Access to the library is also very limited. The only way to make students to find resources and learn is by directing or assigning them to do internet research. Therefore, project based learning is one of the potential approach to engage my student to devote to learn after the class. In addition to that, project based learning could enable the students to explore more about the discussed topics.

The discussion that we had for week 9 give a very good portrayal of the various learning style that each of us see from our students. Teacher should master the idea of describing the learning style of their students before they perform their role in designing lessons for their students. Many of my classmates give very detail descriptions of their students' learning style and how they conduct their teaching based on them that I can later use in the future.

Rahmat