Mobile Assisted Language Learning

NEARPOD ACTIVITY

          Hi, guys! This is the second post after the mid-term test. I do not know why this post should be done in pair. However, I still should do the assignment as well. Then, for this blog post, I would like to explain a bit about the lesson that my pair made.

          The type of setting is for school learning. Specifically, it is for 8^th graders in Junior High School. The learning objective is for the students to learn about grammar which is present perfect simple tense. Later on, the students are able to use the present perfect tense correctly in their daily conversation. Then, for the steps to do my nearpod lesson are:

1.   Open the internet application in the mobile phone (opera mini / browser / chrome, etc).

2.  Open www.google.com

3.  Or simply type https://nearpod.com

4.  Enter the code of the lesson (ask the teacher for the code).

5.  Join the lesson.

6.  Work on it once a week.

The advantage of using this application is that we can just upload our PowerPoint slides there. So, we are not obliged to create the slides on the application directly. Especially, for those who are not yet familiar with technology. For the difficulties I personally found when making the lesson were when I would like to attach the exercise to be an answerable exercise, and when I would like to attach the outside classroom activity because it should be clickable. However, I could find out how to solve them well.

          I got 1 useful feedback from my lecturer about the lesson I made. The feedback was I can make and teach the lesson through inductive way of teaching. My lecturer said that we can make it that way; we are not supposed to start the lesson from the explanation. We also can start it from the exercise to trigger the students and to make the students think first about what is going to be learnt by the students. The aspect I can and will improve on is the way of my teaching. I think if I teach inductively, it will be more interesting. Besides, the students can train their brains to think a bit harder than when they are taught deductively.

          Yeah, I think that‘s all what I can share about NearPod. Hopefully, it can be useful for you, especially for those who are a teacher or will become a teacher. Thank you, and Jesus bless you.