Catatan Sehari Pilkada

(Sebelum dan Setelah)

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Sewaktu press conference setelah debat 3 berlangsung kemaren tanggal 10 Februari 2017, Agus ada menyatakan jika dia tidak suka ditanya kemungkinan kalah karena dengan berani maju sebagai calon gubernur artinya harus mengupayakan sebuah kemenangan. Jangan berpikir kalah. Saat itu saya langsung agak ngeri mendengarnya. Satu sisi, saya mengerti ada semangat kalau bertanding, milikilah mental juara jangan berpikir kekalahan. Tetapi bagi saya, ini bukan soal tanding biasa, ini politik dan itulah yang membuat rasa ngeri tadi.

Sempat terpikir, gila nih, apa yang akan terjadi jika Agus beneran kalah. Akankah dia mencak-mencak dan seluruh pasukan mantan presiden juga akan mengacak-acak Jakarta? Lebay sih saya, tapi iya, saya ngeri.

Lalu seiring munculnya “pepo” kembali di layar curhat twitter, di mana isinya menuduh sana sini, menuduh Presiden Jokowi, menuduh pemerintah, menuduh siapapun yang tidak pro dia seolah-olah menfitnah dan menzoliminya, semakinlah saya melihat sosok Agus segitunya hanya karena demi peponya, tidak mampu lagi berpikir realistis dan menunjukkan karakternya sendiri bukan bentukan pepo dan “memo” nya.

Melengkapi kejengahan pada Agus adalah dengan munculnya pembela Agus di twitter, instagram (dan path?) dari Ibas dengan “wahai rakyatku”nya, Aliya yang membela Ibas, memo dengan ya begitulah, Anisa yang dari sebelum-sebelumnya juga hmm….. Capai lho lihat dan bacanya. Capai karena bagi saya segitu saja seorang SBY, Jendral, yang merasa tampuk kekuasaan hanya milik keluarganya sehingga dari dirinya harus jatuh kepada anaknya. Dia pikir ini kerajaan Indonesia? Prihatin saya.

Hari pilkada datang. Saya memilih no.2, pak Ahok. Sudah pastilah saya memilih beliau. Rawabuaya, area tempat tinggal saya, yang masuk TV hanya karena banjir, sudah tidak ada genangan dua tahun terakhir ini. Setiap saya melewati pinggir kali di belakang jalan Daan Mogot (area Indosiar), sudah bisa melihat sungai yang walau tidak bersih 100%, tetapi tidak hitam lagi dengan bau menyengat dan sampah yang menumpuk di atasnya. Tempat-tempat sampah rapi berjejeran di pinggir sungai. Melewati daerah Menteng, Banjir kanal, sama rapinya. Melewati daerah Grogol, apartemen “Season City”, baik sungai maupun sepanjang jalan tepi sungai telah bersih dan rapi. Terlalu banyak daerah yang akan disebut untuk menunjukkan keberhasilan Ahok. Jadi singkat cerita, hatiku padamu pak Ahok.

Dan terjadilah Agus di urutan terakhir (ke-3). Ada sedikit kuatir, wah bakal ada apa nih ya? Puji Tuhan, semua baik-baik saja. Dan yang makin membuat baik adalah sikap Agus yang cukup “gentlemen” dan rendah hati dengan menelpon Ahok dan Anies (Anies tidak sempat terhubungi saat itu) untuk memberikan selamat telah sukses di putaran pertama dan berhasil masuk ke putaran kedua. Di press conference nya semalam, Agus mengatakan hal tersebut dan yang saya tangkap, Agus menerima kekalahannya dengan baik dan mengakui bahwa kali ini ada yang lebih baik dan seperti namanya pertarungan, ada yang kalah dan ada yang menang.

Wah senangnya hati ini, yang saya kuatirkan tidak terjadi dan malah sebaliknya merasa tenang. Selamat pak Agus, anda menunjukkan kualitas yang baik. Perasaan saya saat ini kepada Agus adalah perasaan beberapa waktu lalu yang menghargai seorang Agus tidak terpengaruh dengan panas politik ayah dan keluarganya, namun memilih berkarir sendiri di bidang militer (terlepas katanya karir dibeli dan tidak ada prestasi), terserah apa kata berita tetapi saya lihatnya begitu. Makanya kaget juga waktu dia melepas karir militer demi pencalonan ini. Agus seperti ditunggangi pepo memonya untuk jadi penerus tahta kerajaan. Eneg lah kita, wajar. Padahal Agus punya (konon) segudang prestasi di bidang lain.

Setidaknya Agus tidak seperti penampakan mengerikannya (menurut saya) sewaktu mengatakan tidak boleh kalah. Malah cenderung memperlihatkan tatapan teduh dan lapang dada.

Apakah inilah yang namanya politik? Dulu lawan, sekarang kawan, ataupun sebaliknya. Tidak memiliki “perasaan” orang biasa lagi, siapa menguntungkan diambil, siapa merugikan dibuang? Entahlah. Mereka memang para pemain politik, sementara saya hanya warga jujur yang lihatnya dari kacamata hitam atau putih saja. Suka dan tidak suka. Ingat dulu memiliki rekan kerja dengan jabatan kepala sekolah saja tetapi politicking rasanya sudah mau muntah. Apalagi politik negara. (Sudahlah, mengajar lagi saja Hed…….*Red* 🙂 )

Balik kepada pilihan saya, saya tidak suka dan meradang dengan semua keadaan yang memojokkan Ahok, sindiran-sindiran Agus, Anies, Sylvi, Sandi yang menyerang Ahok sewaktu debat resmi. Bikin eneg dan mau muntah. Belum lagi ada kenalan di grup WA yang tiba-tiba mengirim tulisan tentang dijatuhkannya ayat dari Tuhan tentang memilih pemimpin harus seiman. Capeklah main iman. Kalau main iman, jelas saya pilih Ahok karena seiman dengan saya. Tetapi bukan itu sama sekali.

Sekarang, menghadapi putaran kedua, kita lihat siapa yang akan menjadi gubernur lima tahun ke depan. Ahokers, kalau saya boleh sebut begitu, bermain jugalah yang fair. Jangan jadi pembuli. Menunjukkan sama saja kalian tidak punya kualitas dan “dignity”. Jika terus-terusan menghina dan membuli kelompok lain, apa tidak nanti hasilnya akan sama saja kalian yang diperlakukan demikian? Sedikitlah berubah. Bagaimana kita tunjukkan posisi di atas angin, bukan sombong, bukan nantangin, bukan anggap enteng, tetapi elegan.

Sementara, calon pasangan 3, yang akan menuju putaran 2 bersama Ahok, yaitu Anies……….hmm……. saya berhenti dulu sampai di sini. Kehabisan kata-kata menggambarkan Anies ini. Saya guru, 20 tahun mengajar, tetapi belum pernah tersentuh dan terkesima dengan ucapan, ungkapan, motivasi dia yang konon untuk menenun kebangsaan. Nanti sajalah urusan tenun menenun kalau dalam 3 tahun terakhir saja, yang ditunjukan sifat kutu loncat kesana kemari, politicking kesana kemari. Saya cukupkan dulu sampai di sini.

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Apple Leadership Camp 2016

I was chosen to attend Apple Leadership Camp last month, 23rd – 25th September 2016 in Singapore by my School. With my IPad use in class, I really think that I was lucky and this would be my advantage, personal and people around 🙂 *happy*.

I went to Singapore together with three colleagues from Springfield School.

Day 1:

My first day was started with visiting United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) in Tampines, Primary School section. Actually, I chose to visit Singapore American School, Secondary level. However, the capacity for the participant was over limit.

UWCSEA also have Secondary school section, but we only visited to the Primary. That was okay, because through Primary school, I also could see how they applied their curriculum to:

  • develop a child’s natural curiosity
  • use an integrated approach to learning
  • encourage an international perspective
  • extend learning beyond the classroom
  • use specialist teachers for single subject areas
  • use information technology and library resources to support learning
  • recognise parents as partners in a child’s learning process
  • develop a child’s awareness of the importance of service to others

And all are still relate with my G9 and G10 students.

UWCSEA has been recognised as an Apple Distinguished School for 2013–2016 for its strong focus on pedagogy and teacher practice within a technology-rich learning environment.

This is to answer some questions from my colleagues friends, even though teachers and students there use IPad for teaching and learning, they use it sometimes as the tool only, the education software and applications can be taken from many things not just from Apple products. Truly reflects where the Apple Distinguished School designation is reserved for programmes that meet criteria for innovation, leadership, and educational excellence, and demonstrate Apple’s vision of exemplary learning environments.

From UWCSEA East, I continued my trip to Equarius Hotel at Sentosa Island, and join the opening Camp Program as their main session.

A lot of sharing, and two impressed me so much. Sandhya Bala, a-G12 girl from Singapore American School shared her experience to make an apps like Quizlet for Apple. The apps will be released around Feb 2017. Can’t wait to see it. Second one, OMAi CEO Josef Dorninger has a background as a social worker and youth educator. At this occasion, he talked about the story and underlying vision of Tagtool for educational use. This was followed by a brief performance and a hands-on session for the audience.

Day 2:

Breakout session started. On this day, there were 5 sessions that I attended.

Session 1: United World College SEA
Recognised as a leader in research-based pedagogical development, the UWCSEA Learning Technology Team shared their story through a mixture of conversation and case-studies. How they started with solid, shared understandings of good pedagogy and drive all classroom practice, including technology use, from that common start point. They also showed how this approach quickly shifted the conversation from “if” or “why” to “when” and “how”. They support teachers in different areas via the development of subject or pedagogy toolkits.

Session 2: Singapore American School
The Quest program. The program around 4 pillars: Skills for lifelong learning, Personalisation, Community of learners, and Time to be inspired. The program purposefully prioritises skills over content and enriches college applications. Quest advisors and students shared their perspective on the program development, early successes and challenges and how it is impacting students.

Session 3: Defining Your Success: Understanding Ideas and Tools for meaningful measurement and reflection ~ Dr. Damian Bebell
For many educators and school leaders, measurement and data are associated with national testing initiatives, exam results and performance tables. Dr Bebell shared the latest generation of ideas, tools and best practices for putting empirical and simple research based approaches within easy reach of schools which use real-time data visualisations and infographics to portray data collected from international school settings. He also showed us to explore how leveraging simple research and reflection activities may serve to better inform our communities through data stories.

Session 4: Jakarta Intercultural School
How do you use your time and organise your people? How do members of your organisation spend their time? How do you know if you have designed the strongest teams?

Day 3:

Session 5: United World College SEA
Continuing from the first session, this time they showed how they measure the success of technology supported classroom practice and discuss various issues and approaches to measuring the success of technology supported teaching and learning. So many examples given, and some of them already used by me *Horraayy* . EDPuzzle, Desmos, Geogebra, Recording your Feedback or creating mini lessons, Khan Academy, etc.

Finally, I finished all my session here and back to Jakarta with happy feelings <3 Thank you, School, for this opportunity.

Below are pictures taken from my trip. Enjoy!! 🙂

Click [Show as slideshow] below, to open the pictures in slideshow view. To see the title of each picture, move your mouse pointer over the picture.

More photos, can be seen through my google photo album.

Tagtool transforms your iPad into a live instrument for inspired visuals. Paint with light, create animated graffiti or tell improvised stories. Use Tagtool for jams, performances or guerilla interventions. Light up your imagination!

GESS Indonesia 2016

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This year, I had opportunity to join in GESS Conference as one of the speaker. Or better saying as a person who willing to share his / her idea or experience on their journey of teaching (If the person is a teacher, like me 🙂 ).

I shared the use of IPad in the classroom to assist learning. I have been using it for several years.

Use your IPad (tablet) as a mobile interactive whiteboard and enjoy a completely untethered teaching experience. Focus on your class and not the whiteboard. Embed rich media elements like graphics, images and videos and leverage a variety of drawing and annotation tools to make your lectures come alive. You don’t need a traditional interactive whiteboard anymore.

Before IPad, I used a wacom (a drawing pad connected to the PPT) since 2008, and one of my sharing can be read here.

I started looking for other alternatives through the IPad. From the first launched in early 2010, I believe that IPad will be a very useful tool for the completeness of my teaching in the classroom.

Let’s see the IPad role in my class, among others:

1. The virtual whiteboard.

2. Presentations that have been made previously in Keynote / PPT / Sway / Video.

3. Live presentation screen recording.

4. Post the presentation directly in to the virtual classroom / online, Schoology based.

5. Browsing certain websites during the lesson. For me, there are some difficult things to explain through presentations that have been made in advance and presented by PPT. Sometimes I need to do in the same time, both explaining and writing. In this case, the IPad, the virtual whiteboard, solved my problems.

How is the workflows of the use of IPad and to connect it to the classroom projector? Check it out here:

1. Install Penultimate.

2. Install Explain Everything.

3. Install Schoology.

4. Internet / wifi connection in the classroom.

5. When I need a virtual whiteboard during my explanation, I open Penultimate. If I want to show images (from my files or from internet), I can easily insert it into my whiteboard screen.

6. If I want to explain with the help of software such as GeoGebra / desmos calculator, I also can easily replace the display board into browsing screen to access the website.

7. To display the virtual whiteboard on a projector screen, can be helped by these ways:

a. VGA cable connection with IPad to the projector.

b. If no cable like above, and your desktop is iMac or MacBook (desktop connected to the projector), IPad screen first transferred via USB cable connection to the iMac or MacBook use Quick Time Player Recording, and then to the projector (By doing this, I can easily record my screen presentation).

c. Use Apple TV: wireless, your mobile virtual whiteboard.

8. To create screencast lesson video, I use “Explain Everything”. This method used for the purpose of my blended learning / my flipped mastery classroom.

9. And, to store all those materials or classroom’s archive with students, I use online class, LMS, Schoology. Students can easily reach out the materials / teaching materials, anywhere, anytime. And they are also assessed by various formative tests in Schoology.

Some pictures to describe the connection:

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