CHALLENGES IN 21ST CENTURY TEACHING: USING DIGITAL LANGUAGE AS A MOTIVATING STRATEGY

By Nuria Mufidah, S.S

MOTIVATION
A research finding conducted by Bradford (2007) indicates that several factors influence the failure of English teaching in Indonesia: curriculum, teacher qualifications

and welfare, classroom size and studentsmotivation.

DIGITAL STUFF:
THE EXISTING GAPS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
GENERATION GAP DIGITAL GAP DIGITAL LANGUAGE GAP
Prensky argues that the gap between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants is the fundamental cause of the "decline of education ( in the US)," and he contends that our current educational system has not been designed to serve today's students (2001a, p. 1 ).

("Generation V" (for virtual), "Generation C" (for community or content), "The New Silent Generation", the "Internet Generation", the "Google Generation".

GEN Z

born after millennials - ages 0-- 18

/ GEN Y

THE EXISTING GAPS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

GENERATION GAP DIGITAL GAP DIGITAL LANGUAGE GAP

DIGITAL NATIVE ENVIRONMENT

The generation gap has been upgraded. In a world brimming with ever-advancing technology, the generations are now separated by a "brain gap" between young "digital natives" and older "digital immigrants," according to Dr. Gary Small, director of UCLA's Memory and Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and UCLA's Parlow-Solomon Chair on Aging. "We know that technology is changing our lives. It's also changing our brains," Small said during a recent Open Mind lecture for the Friends of the Semel Institute, a group that supports the institute's work in researching and developing treatment for illnesses of the mind and brain. Small's talk centered around his recently published book, "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind." The human brain is malleable, always changing in response to the environment, Small said. "A young person's brain, which is still developing, is particularly sensitive. ... It's also the kind of brain that is most exposed to the new technology." Digital natives young people born into a world of laptops and cell phones, text messaging and twittering spend an average of 8 1/2 hours each day exposed to digital technology. This exposure is rewiring their brain's neural circuitry, heightening skills like multi-tasking, complex reasoning and decision-making, Small said. But there's a down side: All that tech time diminishes "people" skills, including important emotional aptitudes like empathy. Dr. Gary Small.

THE EXISTING GAPS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

GENERATION GAP DIGITAL GAP DIGITAL LANGUAGE GAP
Todays students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach (Prensky, 2001).

BRIDGING THE GAPS

1. TODAYS STUDENTS NEEDS 2. TODAYS RELEVANT PEDAGOGY 3. TODAYS STUDENTS NEW LANGUAGE

1. TODAYS STUDENTS NEEDS

LEARNING & INNOVATION SKILLS (4Cs) : Critical

thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity

Information, Media and Technology ( ICT )skills

Life and career skills :

2. TODAYS RELEVANT PEDAGOGY

Partnering Pedagogy
letting students focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best, and letting teachers focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best (Prensky 2010: p.13).

3. TODAYS STUDENTS NEW LANGUAGE

Motivating strategy through students digital stuffs/digital language

in fact, people are intrinsically motivated when they are freely expressing themselves by doing what interests them (de Charms 1968; Deci and Ryan 1985; White 1959).

Digital stuffs have been the major sources of

students interest Related to their real life experience outside the classroom Activate their schemata/ background knowledge

Reasons:

Connect the students and the classroom context

How ?

Explore your students interest in digital stuffs

Prepare materials that can stimulate their interests:

Digital natives : Prefer processing and interacting with pictures, graphics, sounds and video before text

Compare:

Car racing game

Multisensory : Sky drift

THANK YOU
Nuria Mufida, S.S.

nuriamufida@hotmail.com
21learningcenter@gmail.com

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nuriamufida@hotmail.com

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