Tutorial Task 9

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING WRITING

echnology nowadays has been applying in our education system as an effective mechanism of educational tool. As encouraged by the Ministry of Education, teachers and students should incorporate technology in daily lesson in order to create an enjoyment and engaging classroom atmosphere instead of using those traditional tools. While competing in this rat race century, through walking down the world with globalization era, needless to argue that it is such a huge challenge and heavy-duty responsibility for the teachers currently to apply the magic tool while conducting any lesson. Less or more, the students already fully prepared and equipped with the skills in handling Information and Communication Technology (ICT) aspect before they further their study in higher institution level.

Today, with the existence of several labels and kind of social network site such as Facebook and Twitter, teachers and students are able to communicate with one another anytime and anywhere in order to discuss regarding for any task especially for writing input. Besides that, in the perspective of synchronous on-going interaction, the World Wide Web does serve the students medium or platform to have an on-going interaction through chat-room or even a web-camera video. In this case, students who feel shy to have face-to-face interaction among their friends to point out their arguments, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook chat-room, MSN Messenger, Skype and so on we can listed are the efficient telecommunication tool as they easily to express their thoughts and words without feeling any difficulty. Moreover, introducing the e-portfolio through using Blogger, Tumblr and Wordpress for the teachers to record the students’ works instead of using the old-fashion way of scrapbook. Most importantly those students also have the chance and space to put their own video which collaborating with the writing lesson for instance.

To conclude the whole case, technology is no longer an ordinary word, but it is beyond from what we thought. To be prepared or not as well, technology keeps and getting larger than life as we need to master them for the sake of our own goodness, otherwise we will be left behind. Teachers need to be concerned towards their students by working on abundance of hands-on activity through using technology during the teaching period. I strongly believe that this mechanism will generate the students’ interest and might pull the trigger of their passion in order to involve themselves for our lesson plan which technically has been prepared almost perfectly. All in all, teacher however badly needs to be trained in using the latest software so that teacher could immerse into a better usage of the particular software as it will be equipped in the teaching period. Due to lack of time is the most noticeable which encounter by the teachers since we were being as the primary student. Hence, needless to beg that teachers require more time in handling technology to enhance their skills in creating excitement and engaging classroom atmosphere.