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ICT or No “TIK”

After sharing and posting My son’s project into his page in this blog, I feel that the following is a reflection of one situation that I have encountered in recently.

Matthew’s school is one of the example of schools that will adopt “Kurikulum 2013”. They decided not to start this year, but they will, soon. No choices? I don’t know. For me, no matter what the curriculum is, the most important thing is the actual process happening in classes. How to a student get interested in a lesson and try to dig deeper the knowledge as he wants, is the real job of teachers.

It is a complicated situation in Indonesia regarding the removal of ICT lesson in SMP based on “kurikulum 2013”. I wonder how the authorities in Department of Education (either the central or district) see this situation. Have they defined a strict boundary to what was written explicitly in the curriculum document itself? Or did they give some freedom to interpret the meaning of it? No ICT means no ICT? If it is literally like that, for me, we are just following what Forrest Gump said that “stupid is as stupid does”

On the other side, schools and teachers, do they get trapped inside the curriculum? Or they purposely trap themselves into the curriculum? .

When the schools and teachers know exactly the importance of having ICT lesson especially in this era of technology, they get stuck with the law. Instead of combining ICT into all subjects by assigning some time slot for the ICT teachers to support other subjects, they worry too much of the administration that have to be reported to the government.

The report for the government indeed can be a snare by itself. Each teacher is required to teach 24 period per week by law. But, if they teach ICT, they can not be acknowledged as an ICT teacher (because there is no ICT subject anymore as per Kurikulum 2013) and their teaching periods will not be acknowledged.
When the number of periods do not comply with the law, or when they teach other subject but irrelevant to their formal educational background, their name also can’t be registered in DAPODIK (Ministry of Education’s Teachers Registry) . No record in DAPODIK means no money for the “professional teacher allowance” for those who had already certified by government through Department of Education . When school and teacher try to “just” fit the number of periods into 24 periods, sometimes “Dinas” found it as lie, then they can also cancel the data for the teacher allowance.

Until now, I’m not so sure what will be the next step from our government regarding the situation. Once, they said that the idea of “kurikulum 2013” with no ICT for SMP is to give opportunity to have collaborative learning. All subjects must be supported by ICT. That means, subject teachers (including students) must also be supported by IT trainer, IT staff, people who are IT literate. When those kind of people (better known as Computer Teacher) do not feel satisfied by the law (read: do not receive the promised tidy sum of ‘professional allowance’), no wonder there are many petition letters shared and signed by teachers (or people) who against the law.

Confused? Or is it clear why Indonesia rank is so low in PISA?

It is a vicious circle, waiting for someone to cut it, rethink and decide on what’s right.

Diwawancara Siswa

Lagi buka-buka file, eh ketemu file ini yang dikirim siswa beberapa waktu lalu dan karena kesibukan belum sempat ditayangkan lalu malah keburu lupa X_X.

Mumpung sekarang ingat dan sedang period kosong, berikut kutipan wawancara siswa kepada saya untuk keperluan mereka dalam pelajaran BI

Nah…..sekarang bagian saya untuk memberikan kritiknya ya Tidak boleh keberatan karena belajar itu berarti harus siap menerima ucapan selamat maupun saran apalagi kritikan.

Menurut saya, bentuk seperti brosur yang kalian tampilkan sih boleh-boleh saja, cukup baik. Tidak pakai “tetapi” :).

Berikut ini saya coba buat dalam bentuk daftar saja, beberapa kekurangan yang musti diperhatikan:

* Jika sudah memilih narasumber, harus menentukan topik apa yang ingin digali lebih dalam. Benar mungkin topik sudah ditentukan oleh guru kalian tetapi kedalaman materi topik tersebut bisa dikembangkan sendiri. Sehingga saat wawancara berlangsung, semua pertanyaan sudah disiapkan dengan baik.

* Detil pertanyaan harus disiapkan pula. Diawali dengan pertanyaan dasar dan sederhana, lalu dilanjutkan dengan pertanyaan yang bertema sesuai topik yang ingin digali tadi. Jadi menurut saya, daftar pertanyaan di atas semuanya yang simpel saja.

* Jangan takut untuk memulai pertanyaan. Jika narasumber menolak memberikan jawaban atas pertanyaanmu, siapkan “backup” dengan pertanyaan yang lain. Jadi idealnya, galilah dahulu pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang ingin kamu ajukan, buatkan pemetaan nya agar jika satu pertanyaan gagal maka ada pertanyaan lain sebagai gantinya. Bukan jadi tiba-tiba muncul seperti “anda suka warna apa?”

* Walaupun ini hanya tugas sekolah, buat diri kalian terlihat percaya diri waktu bertanya kepada narasumber.

* Laporan hasil wawancara akan jauh lebih baik jika dikemas dalam bentuk cerita. Ada pengantarnya, ada jedanya, ada pula digambarkan kondisi saat wawancara berlangsung. Jadi bukan hanya “tanya-jawab”nya saja yang dimunculkan tapi tulisan yang bisa sedikit banyak menggiring pembaca untuk berasumsi pada keadaan saat berlangsung wawancara yang sebenarnya.

Begitu deh, kira-kira evaluasinya. Semoga bermanfaat, terus berusaha dan belajar !!

Got Talent

Got Talent is a talent show television format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell‘s SYCOtv company. A pilot was made in Britain, hosted by Paul O’Grady, but after O’Grady’s split with ITV, the series was postponed, resulting in America’s Got Talent – the first full series of the format. It has spawned spin-offs in over 50 countries, in what is now referred to as the Got Talent format, similar to that described by FremantleMedia of the Idol format. ~ Wikipedia

Full stop I won’t talk about the original Got Talent TV show. That belong to them, TV owner, TV creator and of course Simon himself

Last Friday, my students, got divided into 12 groups (solo, duo , trio and group), performed and entertained us all (students and teachers) in our version of KGS Got Talent.

Most of them expressed their talent through singing, 2 groups through dancing, 1 student played drum and 1 group in photography.

Few days before the event, I was flattered when Audrey and Giovanny showed me what they’ve prepared. They told me their theme and the process of the photo and I couldn’t even guess who were their model. For me, that described how good their photography technique and of course, how use the theme and touch up their work in Photoshop (or maybe another photography editing software).

They are not alone. Terry, “the drummer”, also told me how he had practiced playing drum, hurt his fingers but he enjoyed it so much.

And Sonia, Christine, Arianne, Mikky and Didian, who told me that they created modern dance. Dance for Christine, Sonia and Arianne? hmmm no wonder. But for Mikky and Didian? It surprised me at the first….. Mikky always looks calm and quiet, Didian looks so “mathematics” ( in a good way of course )… but then those image, disappear instantly when I saw them on the stage.

After the first time I watched Christine and Sonia sang and dance to the tune of Ya Iya Iya Lah (yes, the one from that Japanese Duo), i thought how strange and odd is the dance and the lyric.
“kaki kanan ke depan, kaki kiri ke depan, bisa jalan…..senam yang iya iyalah..”
But the real surprise came from my son, when I recall the song with my son, and he ended up saying that mommy is not outdated

I really enjoyed the show. Really appreciate to Delvino who had the courage to be a soloist. Great job Delvino, improve your skill and keep on trying.

A gorgeous Cella. If I can say, she is the best student singer I’ve ever heard and met. She own Christina Aguilera’s song as if it’s hers and sang it from her heart. Some day, you will be on the real stage of Indonesia’s Got Talent.

The one and only Bruno Mars (ehhh Alvin) hypnotized the audience and made them sing along “Count on Me” together with him. Alvin had became a true winner because he can do multiple things: he sang and entertained us Good job Alvin, and don’t forgot what Ms Angie said “we wish you have the same energy in class”.

Gevin…… woww. I admire your voice. Also Elbert, Cynthia, Jasmine and Calvin. All of you really have a beautiful voice.

In generally, one word to express my feeling about you guys….. “Marvelous”.

In the link below, the story from life tweet and video in the event can be viewed now. Thank you for all participant and voters. I admire on how prompt you guys tweeted to vote your favorite

http://storify.com/juniormatthew/kgs-got-talent

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