Review Jurnal article 3

Review journal entitled Educational reform and development of information literacy of college English Teachers by Mighe Guo and Yuan Wang, October 2014

The technology develops rapidly and vigorously. All fields in the social life have to fit into the changes made by the technology such as production, life style, and thinking. Education aspect also influenced by the technology development. It gives various teaching methods, educational content and changes the instructional concept, accelerating the educational reform. In this era, students have to know how to study by themselves. So, the teachers should be more creative and innovative in using modern technology. By using multimedia and internet as the learning tools, there will be many advantages, for example, students can submit their assignment by email, find as many as resources on the internet, etc.

The roles of the technology in education is very important. It can make the learning process more attractive and enjoyable. The students who used to be subordinat, will become more active and creative by the use of multimedia in the classroom. The teachers also can improve the students motivation and their skill in using technology for education. Internet is an open environmet, students can get any information easily and influenced by the internet itself. The role of the teachers toward the internet is become the facilitator in motivating, make the students do the assigments according to the topics, and giving positive and constructive suggestions to controll the learning process.

However, teachers also have to pay attention to the use of the technology as the learning tool because the devices can’t solve all the problems. The internet can’t differentiate between the positive or negative, the bad or good, and the right or wrong one. So, the teachers should be the facilitator and have to control the use of the technology in the learning process.

As what Vigotzky stated in the constructive theory, students have to find out the information actively and build their own knowledge and teacher as the facilitator give opportunities to the students to find their own strategies in learning and get their own idea.

The use of technology in my classroom will be so interesting for my students, but it can be apply effectively because no language laboratory, no free internet access for the students, and the limitation of supported materials and electricity. The way to solve this problem is prepare the materials taken from the internet as the learning materials, use the available tools ini the school, and move to the rooms which provide the electricity.