The Result of Pop Quiz 1

I got "88%" on this Quibblo quiz: ICDL Module 1 – Concepts of ICT (Test1 - 50 Questions)!

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ICT in Education

Today we will talk about the ICT in education and the ICT in teaching English. As we know, ICT stance for Information Communication and Technology. ICT is a set of technologu that can be use to shsre information or to communicate with others. While ICT in education means teaching and learning with ICT.

Gambar ICT in Education

Worldwide research  has shown that ICT can lead to improve students learning and better teaching method. A report made by the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Japan, proved that an  increase in student exposure to educational ICT through curriculum integration has a significant and positive impact on student achievement, especially in terms of "Knowledge Comprehension", "Practical skill"  and "Presentation skill" in subject areas such as mathematics, science, and social study.

Below are some advantages the ICT tools in education:

·        > Through ICT, images can easily be used in teaching and improving the retentive memory students

·       >  Through ICT, teacher can easily explain complex instruction and ensure the students’ comprehension

·     >  Through ICT, teachers are able to create interactive classes, and make the lessons more enjoyable, which can include students’ attendance and concentration.

Unfortunately, when there is the advantages there will be the disadvantages too. The following are some disadvantages of the ICT tools in education:

·        > Setting up the devices can be very troublesome

·        > Too expensive to afford

·        > Hard for teacher to use in lack of using ICT tools.

Well, after we talk about ICT in education generally, now we go to the main one that is the use of ICT tools in learning language.  In teaching process, the teacher used to be the center of information for the students in the class, but now by using the ICT, the sharing information or even the learning process can be done online through internet. If the communication between students and teacher is still directly happen, the use of ICT tools can make the learning process be more fun with interesting media in delivering the materials used by the teacher and so on. 

According to http://www.englishteacher.com.au/AboutUs/OfficialStatements/ICTsinEnglish.aspx, it says that ICT can enable students to:

·       >   Access information and respond to a widening range of texts

·       >  Organize and present information in a variety of forms

·       >  Broaden the range of audiences for their work

·       >  Compose a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes

·       >  Compose for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for audience and purpose

·       >  Identify key characteristics and features of text.

·         Develop understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the Curriculum)

From the statement above, the teaching English using ICT is expected to improve the students’ comprehension in language skills through the spoken or written texts as the materials. There are two types of ICT that can be used in it, offline and online. The offline tools are like MS. Office and for the online tools, they can be Wallwisher, Prezi and etc. it is taken from http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372979/10-free-online-tools-for-teaching-and-learning.

Management Information System (hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia)

In the first week of ICT class, we talk about management communication system. This lesson relates to hypertext, hypermedia, and multimedia. Know, I will explain about these things according to my understanding after read some references that given by my lecture.

1. Management Information System (MIS)

http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/pics/MIS%20banner.jpg

In this era, almost some of things that people do are relate to the technology. Start with our daily activities such as watching television, sending massage, doing assignment, searching what we don’t know and what we want to know until to do commerce and business. We can organize them all by utilize the ICT. Moreover when we know about Management Information System (MIS) it will be more advantage for us. Management Information System (MIS) is a system that provides information to help us organize or manage the organization well.  As the managers of information and technology within the organization, MIS professionals bring technology and business together to deliver information solutions that help organizations meet their goals. 

Adapted from: http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/ , http://vincentpage.blogspot.com/.

2. Hypertext

http://students.cs.tamu.edu/awebb/cpsc489/essaysketch/images/hypertext.gif

According to my understanding, hypertext is a text that we can find from other text. For example in the Wikipedia, we usually find out a text that contain different color (red or blue) in its word and when we click it we will be transferred in the next text that relate to the previous text. In one source that I read, states that hypertext is basically the same as regular text - it can be stored, read, searched, or edited - with an important exception: hypertext is text with pointers to other text. The browsers let you deal with the pointers in a transparent way -- select the pointer, and you are presented with the text that is pointed to.

Taken from: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html.

3. Hypermedia

Hypermedia is different with hypertext. Hypermedia in my opinion happens when we click one phrase, it will turn up to the presentation of video, animation, and audio which connected each other.

http://lap.umd.edu/SOC/lock42/Ch5/Fig5-2.gif

Some examples of Hypermedia might be:

·You are reading a text on the Japanese language. You select a Japanese phrase, and then hear the phrase as spoken in the native tongue.

·You are viewing a company's floor plan; you select an office by clicking on a room. The employee's name and picture appears with a list of their current projects.

·You are a law student studying the California Revised Statutes. By selecting a passage, you find precedents from a 1920 Supreme Court ruling stored at Cornell. Cross-referenced hyperlinks allow you to view any one of 500 related cases with audio annotations. 

Taken from: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html

4. Multimedia

I think that hypermedia is the best one among hypertext and hypermedia. 

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Why? It’s because multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally. So that it also can be said that multimedia has been in the form of software which has been owned.

Taken from: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html

I think that’s all of my understanding about Management Information system (MIS), hypertext, hypermedia, and multimedia. I am very interesting learning these materials because it’s useful for me as ICT student. In the last, I will be glad if this information can help other people. Thank you.