Journal 2 TLL - Responding to article written by Davies G. and Hewer S entitled “General Characteristic of Digital Media”

It is true and undeniable that technology offers us so many facilities. It is true that technology also make teaching and learning process easier and effective. But the questions are: “have Indonesian teachers maximized the usage of technology in their teaching and learning process?” and: “have the teacher in Indonesia used technology appropriately?”

According to my experience and my friends’ experience when we were students, there were so many teachers ignored and closed her/himself about the development of technology. They just used something that I call “the old way” in their teaching methodology. I think some of them were lazy to learn about it. Because as we know, technology required people who use it to learn how to operate it.

In the other hand, some teacher used this technology wrong. My uncle told me that his son was asked by his teacher to make a description about something. And his teacher asked my uncle’s son to find out material in internet. Do you know what happen? My uncle’s son totally copied the answer from the webpage. Can you imagine it? There were no thinking process when my uncle’s student doing this. It is no use. I bet that my uncle’s son will not know if someone asks him about what has been written in his description.

We can see how important technology, and how important to use it appropriately. So for Indonesian teacher, keep teaching and keep being updated for any kind of development of technology and also use it appropriately. The world will change and as a teacher, we should aware of those changes.