The Summary of Chapter 1 in ICT Book

Technology in the Classroom

Technology in language teaching

            Technology in language teaching is not new. Indeed, technology has been around in language teaching for decades – one might argue for centuries, if we classify the blackboard as a form of technology. Tape recorders, language laboratories and video have been in use since the 1960s and 1970s, and are still used in classroom around the world.

Many people are afraid of new technology, and, with the increasing presence of the Internet and computers, the term technophobe has appeared to refer to those of us who might be wary of these new developments. More recently, the term digital native has been coined to refer to someone who grows up using technology and who thus feels comfortable and confident with it – typically today’s children. Their parents on the other hand, tend to be digital immigrants, who have come late to the world of technology, if at all. In many cases, teachers are the digital immigrants and our younger students are the digital natives.

A teacher may want to use more technology in their teaching, but the school may not have the facilities, or, on the other hand, a teacher may be instructed to start using technology for which they feel unprepared or untrained. Teachers sometimes also have some doubts to use internet to teach their students. There are several solutions to make it teachers understand and moving on to use technology inside their class. The point is the teachers should be aware that they already have certain technical skill to use technology – in this case, Internet in their classroom.

The teachers need to know more about the modern technology. In this era, technology is important to the teachers to know because nowadays the internet is getting faster in spreading. The basic skills for the teacher, in this case the basic skills of using computer should be had by the teachers for teaching their students in this modern area.

Name   : Gede Tegar Kriswinardi

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English Education Department Undiksha
3rd Semester