The Role of Teachers in Utilizing Learning Media as A Learning Source for Millenial Students (original) (raw)

Exploring The Millennial Learners’ Attributes and Needs in Educational Environment

ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Millennial learners were born and raised in the digital era, with a variety of technology complete and sophisticated, such as: computer, laptop/notebook/netbook, smart Phone, iPads, PDA, MP3 player, internet, and various other electronic devices. From childhood, they were familiar or introduced with the sophisticated gadgets that directly or indirectly influence their behavioral development and personality. Millennial generation has characteristics of behavior and personality that is different from previous generation. The attributes of millennial learners who grown up with technology may influence the current teaching strategy. In supporting the urgency of exploring the millennial learners’ attributes and needs in educational environment, the authors conduct a survey at Education Faculty of Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare (UM Parepare), especially the learners who are majoring in English Education.The survey confirmed that those learners were exposed to various types of IT appli...

The Digital Mindset as an Approach to Education forthe Millenial Generation

ICOGESS Medan, Indonesia, 2020

Education in the millennium requires strategies and adjustments in the preparation and implementation of the teaching and learning process. The situation that surrounds the world of education also changes because of the strong influence of digitalization in all fields. Therefore, one of the educational strategies for the millennium is the need to develop digital narratives in the education process itself. Because the millennials rely heavily on digital technology, millennial education achieved through a pattern of technological determinism. An education system is a design in a teaching approach that adapts to learning styles and media technology so that it becomes more familiar and following the current culture. Digitizing the education system, as intended in Digital Narrative, will be in vain without a change in the mindset of all stakeholders in the education world. Therefore, in the millennial generation learning effort, the first step needed is to develop an educational system instrument, including learning strategies, which depart from the digital mindset. The next step is to integrate all these educational instruments into a technology-based education system. This article was prepared to discuss and criticize millennial education strategies with a digital narrative approach. The discussion was conducted qualitatively by referring to some theories and libraries.

Transformation the Meaning of Learning for Millennial Generation on Digital Era

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2020

This study aims to uncover and describe the transformation of the meaning of learning at the millennial generation mindset. The research approach used is a qualitative research method through a naturalistic phenomenological design. The research subjects consisted of 80 students at the State University which consisted of 3 groups of students from 7 faculties whose average age was 19-24 years: 1) active in student organizations (Ormawa), 2) active in Student Activity Units (UKM) ), and 3) students who are not active at all only attend lecture activities. The data comes from the results of interviews and observations that are analyzed through the stages of synthesis and selection of data, data display, data verification and conclusion, then tested its reliability through cross-checking data sources, comparison of results of literature review, extension of research time, academic feasibility audits through experts, and confirmation to the data source about the accuracy of the meaning of...

Application of Technology in the Digital Era Education

International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education

The fact that technology plays a much larger role in the digital era than it did for previous generations has made today’s generation having a high level of technological literacy. The increase in this literacy coupled with recent technological advances has led to the expansion of technology in education. From the millennial to Gen-Z, these are the generations that are coming into the classroom today and they share unique characteristics that define their generations. These generations expect to be engaged in their learning and they do not do well being passive learners. Hence, technology has to be embraced in today’s education and teachers have to apply technology as part of the students learning. This paper reviews the generations of learners that teachers are having today and how these generations impacted the transformation of education in the digital era. This paper also presents some of the emerging technologies and discusses the needs of pedagogical transformation to inve...

Learning Media and Technology: Generation Z and Alpha

Indonesian Journal of Instructional Media and Model

The purpose of this article is to analyze the learning media and technology in the Z and Alpha generation teaching and learning activities. This study departs from the author's observation of the current condition of teachers, where educators get a difficulty in teaching students of generation Z and Alpha as described in this article. The problems that found by the author are still very diverse, but it should be noted that there is no room for educators to make excuses and do not use technology as a medium of learning. The method that used is a qualitative research method, the author examines Learning Media and Technology: Generation Z and Alpha. The analysis process carried out by the author is to use a variety of reliable literature and electronic sources to support the author's analysis. The results of this study found that this technology media can uniform the perceptions of student learning, smooth interactive, streamline the teaching and learning process, foster positi...

Teaching in 21ST Century: Students-Teachers’ Perceptions of Technology Use in the Classroom

2017

The rapid growth of technology encourages teachers especially who teach English as a foreign language to use it while presenting material and giving instruction in the classroom. Technology, as the newest instructional media developed in this globalization era, presents situation which helps the students to have new authentic and meaningful learning experiences engaging their effort and behavior by providing more fun and effective learning atmosphere. In addition, it provides the opportunity for the students to work collaboratively and easily access the information that can supplement their learning experience. Those benefits become the central part of 21 st century education which should be optimized in order to create sophisticated learning immersion and maximize the quality of students in the future. In this research, some media techolog ies are introduced to one hundred student-teachers having Technology Enhanced Language Learning class . Those media, P rezi as online software p...

Effect & Impact of New Media on Learning Culture Among Students between the Age Group of 18-20.pdf

Journal of Applied Information Science, 2016

The term ‘New Media’ has become the most prominent component in the fast growing world. It provides a framework where people across the world can communicate, exchange messages, share knowledge, and interact with each other regardless of the distance. The nature of new media as a means of communication has also lead to a place where people interact to share knowledge and thereby learning process takes place. When we look at it from the institution perspective, new media has done an immense job by helping the academicians as well as students in their learning as well as knowledge gaining level. The principal objective of the study is to find out the role of new media on learning culture among students between the age group of 18 to 20. The research methodology intended for this study is quantitative method. The quantitative method of research would enable for a wider scope to collect the opinion and feedback from the target audience i.e. students between the age group of 18 to 20. The questionnaire will be distributed to 50 students and 50 teachers to gain the result. With the objective to analyse the impact of new media on students basically from their study and learning perspective, the paper aims at collecting the statistics of the same. At the same time this paper also revolves around the teacher-student learning process through which paper is able to find out the impact of new media on both students as well as teachers in their teaching-learning process.

The Utility of Media in Education

Media is available in various forms such as print, audiovisual or online. Mobile, computers and tablets bring all these forms of media together. Books, Newspapers, television and radio etc. have been long described as traditional forms of media. Lev Manovich describes new media as a distribution platform and exhibition channel in the form of Internet, websites, Blu-ray disks and others. Social Media and Blogging platforms are the other forms, which are part of the online platform. There are hosts of educational tools available both offline and online. There are various researches, which indicate the importance of use of media in classroom teaching. A study done by the author in 2013 indicated that teachers were using various new media techniques for delivering lectures and connecting with the students on the Internet though the interaction between students and teachers was limited in using the new media. The study also showed that students were fairly conversant with new media technologies and its use by academicians for pedagogical purposes. In current times where there is plethora of media (offline and online) available, are both teachers and students using them? The current study examined if teachers were using any particular media extensively for pedagogical purposes both inside the classroom and outside of it, though not limited to it and if they observed how students adapt to any form of media in enhancing their studies. It also looked for any uses of new media in the teaching learning process. The author used asynchronous close-ended online interview method and expects the study to be useful to teachers, researchers, and students of the use of new media technologies in academics.