Biography of Lecturer

BIOGRAPHY OF NITA RIA, M.Pd

Nita Ria, born in Palembang, South Sumatra on 8^th October 1984. She is the last child in her family. She is from little happy family, her father is Jemingan and her mother is Saadah. She had already married with Salman Farisi, ST, they are blessed a son, his name is RasyidFarisi. She live in Jl. Mataram No 4041 Kertapati, Palembang.

After she finished her study in Elementary schoolin 1991-1997 and Junior High School in 1997- 2000. Next, she continued her study in Senior High School in 2000-2003. Then, she got S.Pd degree from English Majoring Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at University of PGRI Palembang in 2003-2007. After that, she also continued undergraduate program in 2009-2012 at University of PGRI Palembang.

Therefore, during she study in Elementary till Senior High School, she was a good student and she had some achievement. She got the first rank in grade 1, 2, and 3, when she was  in Elementary school, and also in Junior High School she got the third rank in grade 1 and 3. Then, when she was in Senior High School, she got the third and fourth rank in grade 1 and 2. She had also some experiences when she was be a lecturer, she ever joined training of JJA at Lampung, committee of seminar, and Junior High School’s workshop.

In addition, after she graduated from her collage, she taught in Junior High School and Senior High School (2008-2010), Elementary School(2009-2013), Academic of Computer of Bina Sriwijaya Palembang(2011-2012), and also she started teach in 2013-2014 at University of Bina Darma Palembang. Then, in 2011, she is one of regular lecturer in English Majoring Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at University of Tridinanti Palembang.

Using Cellphones in the Classroom

Using Cellphones in the Classroom

Using cellphones in the classroom is quite controversial, with many schools banning them and not allowing learners to use them for learning activities. The objectives in using cellphones in the classroom are to give motivation to students, enlarge their knowledge, share their idea, and stimulate students for learning. Sometimes, the use of cellphones often misused by students. they use it for play game, messaging, etc. Using cellphones in the classroom can appears some problem, but it can help the student learn in some surprising ways. In this case, the leaders and policy leader that seem interest to use cellphones in the classroom, it stimulates student to do same case. When the teaching and learning context, students using cellphones can to disturb their effectiveness learning. Even though, students interest to use cellphones, they can not to leave the textbook. Textbook is traditional’s guidance for student, but cellphones is modern’s guidance. Students need textbook to learn, sometimes cellphones also need by students to enlarge their knowledge. Now a days, cellphones is common to used by people, especially by students. There are some different problem cellphones instead of textbook :

1.      Cellphones is multimedia.

2.      Digital content is personalized.

3.      The learning environment is participative.

4.      It has a digitally mediated component to the learning environment can be surprisingly inclusive.

In addition, the use of cellphones there is also the use of computer, it can be connected with Wifi or another wireless. The student can to use it to help their learning, not only speaking up online. They can to share their idea, statement, etc. by using computer or maybe cellphones.

I think, there are some benefit of using cellphones in the classroom :

1.      It can to give motivation to students to develop their knowledge.

2.      It can to stimulate their interest for learning.

3.      It makes easy to help students to access some resources for their assignment.

In conclusion, we as a teacher, we should be able to handle the classroom, because the characteristics of students are different. In the classroom, the use of cellphones is common, sometimes the student using it for play games, messaging, surfacing, etc. It is very useless for them, yet they can to use it for access resources what they are learning in classroom activity, it can be enlarge their knowledge, and also they can share their idea by using cellphones through social network. The student also need to use textbook for learning, it is guidance for them to learn.

Resources : http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/cell-phones-in-classrooms.html