Internet VS Language Laboratory

          By the time am being, I will become a teacher. A teacher who has ICT basic. So that, this course Technology in teaching and learning is very useful for my friends and I. In the last meeting we had a debate. It was about preferences of using internet to language laboratory. I have no experience of using language laboratory in my senior high school. Instead of that, I am so familiar with internet.

Why it should be internet?

Why it should be language laboratory?

I can not choose which one is better and which one is worse. Everything depends on the context. It should be better if a school the two things. I know everything has its good and bad.

Internet usage

Safe/unsafe

http://bayoekmex.blogspot.com/2010/09/internet.html

Many people will say that using internet for children is not safe, because many bad things exist there include cyber-crime. The thing is how we use the internet is. In teaching and learning, teacher will have her/his role to conduct students. Teacher should be smart and selective through the material or site that must be visited by students to support the learning process. Sometimes, we may think that it is possible to control the whole internet usage in school. No need to worry, we still have an alternative. By blocking some sites that regarded as unsafe for children may help us in controlling our students.

Economic

Actually, using internet will spent more money than language laboratory. We have to spent fund each month. When we see the impact of this, it will not be useless, because the internet is very helpful in learning process.

Language Laboratory

Safe/unsafe

http://bedrebhashe.blogspot.com/2008/09/language-laboratory-for-learning-spoken.html

Using laboratory is safe, because the teacher will control the students’ computer.

Some of us may think that there is no kind of activity can be held in Laboratory. It is caused by the limited place. We cannot take this for granted. Somehow, as a teacher we have to be creative to think in using the unlimited resources while we are teaching include the place. Language laboratory can help students in integrating the four skill of language learning; reading, writing, listening and speaking. By using computer as the media of language learning, it will make the learning process can be more fun.

Economic

The budget for language laboratory is relatively cheaper that internet, because it is only for the first time build it.

That is all what is in my mind relate to the issue  “internet usage and Language laboratory”.

         

Being Teacher should be smart and selective

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