LEARNIG BASED ON INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY (MOBILE PHONE)

ENGLISH FOR ICT

“LEARNIG BASED ON INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY (MOBILE PHONE) ”

ICT ( Information Communication and Technology) is a big umbrella that included entire technical equipment for processing and conveying information. Be without us knowing, most activities performed by humans has been supported by Information and Communication Technology. Information and Communication Technology, directly or indirectly, has changed the way we live, the way we learn, the way we work and the way we play. Some of the application of Information and Communication Technology, among others, in the fields of business, education, and health and government.

As we know that ICT has grown in round the world especially in education like in Kindergarten, Elementary School, Junior High School, Senior High School and Collage or University. Education based on ict as a media to help the teacher in delivering the learning materials, and also make habitual for the teachers to adapt with the period development that very rapid at this moment. Ict also help the students learn the lesson more quickly and improve the income of learning became an urgent necessity for the achievement of quality learning.  One of the media is Mobile Phone.

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, hand phone, or simply a phone) is a phone that can make and receive telephone call over a radio  link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network.

The primary function of a mobile phone is voice communication. Like traditional landlines phones, mobile phones allow one user to call another and talk from afar. In addition in voice function, the user of mobile phone can send a brief, typed message to other users. User also share a file like as picture and video and the feature the user can access the internet though the use of integrated Web browsers and other Internet applications optimized to function with a small screen.

Beside the functions mobile phone have advantages especially in education, such as:

• Easy to care anyware.
• Learn now can be done anywhere, be in public transportation or bus way. What is important to use a Smartphone that open access to WAP or GPR
• We can share any information to another person with using the application like facebook, twitter, whatsup, path, black berry massenger etc.
• ·         Increase the students’ motivation in learning
• With website, Every teacher in the school is asked to act as a contributor to prepare a resume and teaching materials that will be or have been discussed in the classroom, thanks if the teacher is able to create teaching materials in the form of interactive media to be uploaded and can be downloaded by students. In addition to teachers, students are also asked to contribute to utilize the school website as a vehicle for creativity (e.g writing rhymes / poems, short stories, recipes, etc.), expressing opinions, or just have fun to display their best photos. 
  ·       Increase the students’ motivation in learning.
  In addition to the advantages mobile phone also have disadvantages, such as:
  
  
  • Expensive for poor students
  • ·         Less motivation to study
  • Students can access a pornography site, that can make student include in criminal
  • ·         Students be lazy, because they enjoy in playing a game, browsing, chatting, etc