Technology to Teach Thinking Skill

Thinking is a skill in language learning besides reading, writing, listening and speaking. Actually all the students have their own capacity of thinking. Some students are LOTS and HOTS. The difference is how critical they think about something. Teach thinking is one of teacher job. Nowadays technology will help the teacher to teach thinking skill. Computer is a tool that scaffold thinking and support collaborative problem solving.  Microsoft office and sound recording can be the media for students to write, sketching or recording their thinking.

Sense is the first thing when students learn. The cognitive processing requires perception and the first step for learning is get the students’ attention. Since you have the students’ attention, it will be easy for the teacher to let the students understand the material easily. Students may have their own concept about something. The main point is just guide them to have creative and critical thinking. As many as you give freedom for the students to express their opinion and give them such exploring question, it will increase the students’ thinking ability.

Webquest is a recommended website for the teacher to support thinking and problem solving. In this website, the teacher can put all the things that relate to the material. it is consists of introduction of material, task for having assignment, process for completing the task, how or the step to to the task, resources as material’s information for support the task, guidance on how to organize the information and the last part is conclusion that brings closure and reflection.

Technology to Teach Writing

As we know that reading and writing are integrated. Before you are going to write you should have prior knowledge about the form and content of the writing. To have the prior knowledge you can read first.

Writing can be nice activity for those who love it and vice versa. Even though you dislike writing you can have computer to help you. Basically writing more focus on accuracy. The main point is about the grammar. You may have Microsoft office to check the grammar, punctuation and spelling. The grammar is already constructed so you just block the sentences and use which language you will use. For website, you can use compcomp.com which provide all about grammar.

Beside grammar, the content of your writing is important. However your grammar is great but the content is bad so it all should be balance. Here critical thinking is needed. You need literature to support it. So your writing content is connecting. Actually content is to develop the content knowledge. There are some websites to help you richer the content. Encyclopedia, national geographic and online library of literature can be use as the website. You can use Purdue owl to check to reference.

Actually writing process is based on the writer. I would like to write everything that comes up in my mind. I do love free writing. I just write the idea, read it and sometimes revise it. Prior knowledge is needed. May be brainstorming will help you to control the content. So writing is based on the person way to express their idea and construct it into the sentences.

Identity among others 3rd individual essay of Humanistic studies

Everybody has their own identity. You cannot see it only from a side even there is most dominant identity that someone has. Reflect to myself, I am a girl who come from Sekayu, shopping and watching are my beloved hobbies, Palembang food is my favorite food. If you want to identify someone identities, you have to see from which side will you get focus more. For example I, the most dominant identity that I want everybody focus more is Sekayu, the place where I come from rather than see me as a woman. I really proud am being a Sekayuness because I was born and spent my days there. Sekayu’s culture is life strongly in my blood. The way I act and the accent of the speaking show that I am a Sekayuness. Actually Sekayu is part of Palembang but I do not want identify as a Palembangness.

The first time I meet someone, I will see their appearance and the way they speak. I mean I will guess what culture they have. I will do some approaching to know them more. I do not want to have wrong perspectives of them.  For me, someone’s identity is very important to make a strong character especially about the culture. As we know that culture is closest to stereotype. Take for an example Javaness is known as kind, polite and slow. Actually it just a stereotyping because I have many Javaness friends and not all of them like that.  Sometimes stereotyping is wrong. So that’s why you have to see the person from their different identities.

                     Identity is like a mirror. As we know that we have multiple identities and those identities are the  aspects for others to see us. Someone focus of identity sometimes different. Although they come from the same background culture but it does not mean they want to be see the same.  For example Siti and Hadi are from Javaness but both of them have different dominant identity. Siti want the focus of her identity is Javaness and Hadi want to see from a side of man. For me whatever which identity is the most dominant, you have to aware of it. Make it as your image. When somebody is talking about Sekayu, they will remain me. People are easy to know or understand you if you have a dominant and strong identity. The main point is however identities that someone has, we have to aware of it.