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A Post from May 2012

Friday, May 11th, 2012…..
One of the most memorable day of my life.
On that day, together with my students, we started our first class with iPad.

iPad is one amazing technology development, and I have this “advantage” of not much into games so I can “play” with it to explore how to use it in my class.

I felt, ever since it was launched several years ago, iPad was mostly considered as a portable game center or sophisticated personal library of emails, photos and video. Even, parents tend to proudly show it off how their toddlers play with iPad.
Fortunately lots of people can see beyond the games and actually use it for learning, especially in the classroom.
You can click http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-in-the-classroom.

Especially after the launch of iPad2, and Apple cleverly updated the features on iPad with this amazing “video mirroring” to make it easier for teachers to use their materials, and application to the class.

Suddenly, iPad with its multi touch surface is becoming so accessible to the whole class if you need that too.
Click on the following link to learn about 5 advantage of iPad2 http://edreach.us/2011/03/13/5-reasons-why-i-want-ipad-2-in-my-classroom/.

When i used it in the classroom, it’s easy to see how helpfull iPad can be to show various applications, graphics, photos and of course my own virtual class. With iPad, it was like you have an advanced version of interactive whiteboard, while at the same time a direct access to your own materials. Of course, all works wirelessly.

I’ve been annotating my own Powerpoint presentation and PDF for years, but with iPad, i can annotate it and immediately safe it online from the same device, so the students can reread it.

The newer part is the content creation ability. With iPad, you can create videos, drawing, diagrams and easily share it as well.

It was exactly what I did that Friday, as I also recorded my class and then edit the video on the iPad.
You can see in the video, sometimes student eyes glued on the screen and it is a clue on how the right medium can actually help students focus.
Click on my link Last day in 2011 – 2012 with my students

I’ve been recording instructional videos since the last two years, but iPad also make it way easier to record the students as well if i want to add their response or answers, and I can do it directly in the classroom.

Before I even brought it into teaching and learning process, I’ve known how powerful iPad can be.
But to actually use it make me realize how iPad can complete the cycle of material creations, delivery, exercise/quiz, assessment, feedback and interaction that I’ve done for the last two years. That, and you can never underestimate wireless portability 🙂

For me, that Friday really serve as a stepping stone to really educate and prepare my students for their digital future…

Jumat, 11 May 2012, saya rasakan sebagai salah satu hari yang paling berkesan dalam hidup saya.

Bersama dengan murid-murid saya, kami memulai untuk pertama kali (kebetulan bagi mereka menjadi yang terakhir kali bersama saya karena hari itu merupakan hari terakhir mereka di kelas 9), pengajaran di dalam kelas menggunakan iPad.

iPad merupakan salah satu kecanggihan teknologi yang sangat mengagumkan. Keuntungan saya tidak suka berkutat dengan games, malah menjadikan perangkat iPad sebagai salah satu media melakukan teaching learning di dalam kelas.

Klik link berikut ini untuk melihat bahwa iPad sudah menjadi bagian umum dalam ranah pendidikan http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-in-the-classroom

Lalu seperti biasa kecanggihan apple mengeluarkan update berkalanya, demikian juga dengan iPad 2. Kecanggihan yang ditawarkanpun meningkat seperti disebut di atas “video mirroring”. Presentasi menjadi bertambah kaya ragam, profesi guru yang identik dengan mempresentasikan bahan ajar menjadi sangat terbantu dengan kualitas iPad 2 ini.

Karena iPad 2 memiliki salah satu fasilitas yang menakjubkan yaitu “video mirroring” maka iPad 2 sangat berguna untuk pembelajaran di dalam kelas. Sebagai guru dapat menghadirkan software-software pembelajaran dari aplikasi pendidikannya pada saat mengajar kepada seluruh siswanya di kelas.
Klik link berikut untuk mengetahui 5 keunggulan iPad 2.
http://edreach.us/2011/03/13/5-reasons-why-i-want-ipad-2-in-my-classroom/

Saya merasa, bahwa saat keluarnya iPad beberapa tahun lalu, mayoritas orang menganggap bahwa iPad sebagai salah satu tablet canggih untuk memiliki perpustakaan pribadi, email, penyimpan data pribadi (foto dan video). Kadang banyak orang tua “bangga” dengan “anak usia balitanya adalah pengguna iPad”.

Ketika saya menggunakan iPad untuk proses belajar mengajar di kelas, sangat mudah untuk melihat bahwa iPad sangat berguna sebagai bagian media presentasi kepada siswa, macam-macam aplikasi, grafik, foto dan tentu saja kelas virtual saya. Seperti merasakan versi pengembangan dari interactive whiteboard dengan waktu yang bersamaan dapat mengakses langsung ke material milik kita sendiri. Dan yang pasti, semua secara wireless.

Sayapun sudah pernah mencoba menggunakan anotasi pada PPT dan PDF untuk beberapa tahun terakhir. Tetapi dengan iPad, hasil anotasi tadi dapat langsung disimpan secara online untuk diakses kembali oleh siswa di mana saja.

Video yang saya persembahkan untuk siswa saya di akhir masa belajarnya bersama saya, merupakan sisi lain dari penggunaan iPad, kami menikmati moment di mana siswa melihat dirinya sendiri di layar projector dan kami berkesan pesan dalam video tersebut.
Klik link saya di Last day in 2011 – 2012 with my students untuk melihat kami memasuki era baru belajar dengan iPad 2 di dalam kelas.

Saya telah membuat video pembelajaran sejak dua tahun terakhir ini, iPad membuat segalanya menjadi lebih mudah.
Salah satunya saya bahkan dapat membuatnya langsung dari dalam kelas.

iPad dapat melengkapi siklus pembelajaran saya mulai dari berkreasi akan materi ajar, menyampaikan ilmunya,
memberikan latihan/PR/quiz bahkan tugas-tugas lain, feedback, interaksi dengan siswa selain di dalam kelas, selama dua tahun terakhir ini. Perkembangan siklus ini saya harap semakin besar, sejalan dengan proses saya belajar dan belajar.

Bagi saya, hari Jumat itu sungguh merupakan sebuah batu loncatan untuk mengajar, membimbing dan mempersiapkan siswa siswa saya di dalam era digital yang telah mereka masuki untuk masa depan mereka…..

Collaboration using Google Docs – In Mathematics Class –

Collaboration can be defined as working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve goals. Students are invited and taught to have the ability to be helpful and make necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal.

This level of engagement that makes students feel like they’re together in the same room.

In my class, the goal of this activity is making my G9 students remember all the topics that we covered in class for two semesters. When they remember it, easier for them to recalling the problem and reconnect to the questions. Students need to prepare for their semester two final exam (paper based exam).

Below are the procedure of the activity:

Listing the syllabus that had been covered for two semesters.
I summarise in a document (in google docs).
Share the document to students. All students have the same access to edit the document, except to change access and adding new people.
In class – 2 hours lesson, they must post questions per outcomes from syllabus and answer their friends posting. They can create their own questions, take from text book or past paper, insert pictures, browsing from internet. I check each question and put comments to state correct or wrong questions or answers that they have posted. When they find it wrong, they will fix it and after that click on “marked as resolved”.
Students can continue add questions or answer it at home. They are given 24 hours to complete it.
This activity graded as an individual assessment, with the criteria (Rubric) as follows:
- Number of questions posted in the document.
- Number of questions that is answered.
- Complexity of the questions.
- Use of g(Math) add-ons to present equations / expressions / functions in document.
Marking given when I trace the revision history in the document.

As a basic knowledge, students must install g(Math) add-ons in their own shared document. Below are the instructions:

In the document:

Watch the video tutorial when needed, then install it.

After installing g(math), you can create math expressions:

Create a graph:

Create a statistical display:

Create a handwriting entry:

You can use another add-ons, Kaizena to add voice comments to students. While we can also use g(Math) with Google Forms to create online math quizzes and tests. Both tutorials will be given later 🙂

So, this is one example of teaching learning activities in class, especially in revision week before exam. We can create more activities engage them to be active learner. By doing this, at the end of this activity, I received a bunch of questions, and for them, suddenly, they have their own question banks (with answers) in cloud.

The following video recorded during the collaboration in class:

Souvenir from Indonesia Digital Learning 2016

We teach 21st century students, we are from 20th century teachers, we teach in 19th century school and in 18th century classroom design.

I joined seminar held by PT Telkom Indonesia, “Indonesia Digital Learning 2016” at hotel JS Luwansa, Kuningan, Jakarta.

I was pretty excited with this chance. I went there with idea to meet, to learn and relearn. To meet and greet my colleagues from many school around Jakarta. Lucky me, I met several teachers from outside Jakarta and Java. And also met my “online” colleagues from the blog that we join and follow.

Seminar was held for two days. The key speaker was Prof. Richardus Eko Indrajit. With all materials can be downloaded from IndonesiaDigitalLearning.com website, Prof. Eko still conveyed his speech so interesting. He did very well, for “not a new thing anymore” , which means not over information about 21st century learning skills. I believe, we need to be reminded as teachers, but not too over as now we almost past 20 years of our 21st century 😄.

Teaching with technology is not only teaching use gadgets as tools. Some people still need to shift the paradigm about it. Tools for teaching doesn’t make you as the teachers who applies technologies in 21st century learning, only some parts of it.

The most important thing is how you handle situation in your teaching and learning environments. You use handy, cool, and powerful gadgets, but you still tell your students that they can not use those stuff or even calculator to help them calculate in class, means you totally misunderstanding and misinterpretation the idea of technology itself.

Back to the event, I saw bunch of teachers in different necessities, those who really want to learn new things, the other one who want to share, some want to be reminded the idea of technology in education (like me, probably 🙂 ). With many reasons, we were there and tried to do as the best as we could to involve in education, where ever we are.

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IDL is one of CSR program from PT Telkom Indonesia for Improving Indonesian Education. It is amazing. Our education really need to be supported from many aspects. They also encourage teachers from all over Indonesia to involve with the improvement of the education itself.

The IDL program is to increase teachers’s competences in ICT for teaching and learning process.

One of the encouragement given is competition. Yeaaahh most people like competition, they like to compete to others. And the title for the winners is A HERO :). For me, personally, it is kinda weird terms. You compete to be a winner, not to be a hero.

To be chosen as 45 finalists from hundreds (almost a thousand) teachers, will be a proud for teachers mostly. It’s natural feeling, isn’t it? How can you be in the 45 teachers and in few days, will come up with 8 heroes? What is the consideration from the Jury? Is it fair enough? Is the chance really for everyone? Are they looking for the real hero from all over school in Indonesia? Or they have concerns on choosing someone to be the brand of “My Teacher My Hero”? Pro and Cons come from this event.

Talking to myself, if they want to find the real Hero, they should spread the chance widely. If only given to some people and same people, their program does not work in well.

Jakarta, May 2016

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