Reflect from Both of Interesting and Unexpected Debates

Sometime ago my friends and I in Language Teaching Methodology class did debate. The motions were teacher needs to use more than one books for teaching and teacher just need one book to teach. I was in first motion that was a positive side.

Well, both of positive and negative motion had own reasons that could be consideration. For example, teacher should use many different resources books so that he/she can complete which book that is less in information from the more complete one. While using one book is because many books can waste much money and make teacher more confused.

I think the positive and negative one always cannot be combined or compared which is the strongest. Every choice must have every advantages and disadvantages so it depends on our creativity to compile the best things from each motion. From that kind of challenge, teacher must be critical and think smart.

One more debate session that I have done before. That was in Teaching and Language Learning course. The motions are teaching should be combined with technology and teaching must not involve technology.

The debate went without controlled actually. There was negative motion group that spoke loudly to positive motion group, anyone who cut other friend’s words before she complete her sentence, and anyone shouted each other. So noisy and complicated. Actually that didn’t happen in my group but in the group near me and it so disturbed my group’s debate session. When I spoke, my friends couldn’t hear my voice. It has reflected to me that I should never do something like that in my debate. I am afraid if case that is similar like that happens, so far the debaters will fight each other and the purpose is not for sharing ideas but more for showing the debaters’ strength. (>_<)

Okay, let’s discuss for that debate contents. So, again, the conclusion is there is the most proper way in that case. Technology is pretty needed in teaching and learning to support wider knowledge and keep it up to date. Technology also can make teaching applying easier by using internet, computer, projector, etc. But technology has bad impacts to if the user misapplies it, so it depends on the user too.

Then, how about teaching and leering in remote area that technology is still not exist? Sure we cannot rely on technology only. There are still many environmental equipments that can be used. For other case, if suddenly there is an error system in technology and teacher can’t use its type of technology that has been prepared before, sure teacher should have plan B to overcome it, right?!

So again, as students and teacher, we need technology in learning and teaching but don’t be depended on technology. Be a smart, critical, and creative person is still be number one. \\\(^o^)///