HYPER MALL in Technology and Language Learning :)

            Voila! Welcome back to me. This is my third reflective journal. I have studied splendid and sophisticated material this week. This is a MALL.

            What’s on your mind while hearing this word? Taman Anggrek? Central Park? MOI? Or Pejaten Village? But wait guys mall here is not that kind of things that I mentioned above. MALL here is a shortened of Mobile Assisted Language Learning. Wow wow sounds coll right? Let move on to deep knowing about it.

            Alright, we are going to explore what’s inside this MALL, will Matahari or J-CO be there? (Please ignore it). MALL as Mobile Assisted Language Learning is used to support or encourage language learning (also language acquisition). Based on this explanation, mobile learning also means, “With only slight differences in emphasis, the “M-Learning”, “e-Education”, “distance education”, “open learning”, “virtual learning”, and “multimedia learning” have all been as synonyms (Nycz & Cohen, 2007 in Mobile Learning: Pilot Projects and Initiatives, Guy Retta, 2010).

            After reading that statement, I assume that mobile learning is learning activity that involve technology which provide distant learning, multimedia learning and don’t  use face to face method anymore. Another question comes to my mind, is it possible that our learning will be successful by using this? And how can? Well I will share the mobile learning tools right away.

            There are a lot of mobile learning sophisticated tools in this whole world buddy! But I will explain what I got about this. Okay the first one is PDA! What’s PDAs? PDAs is shortened of Personal Assistant’s Digital. Are you still confused? Well PDAs is kinds of smartphone (at that time). In language learning process, it’s used to be translator and others function (video, music etc). It also provides Internet Connection also Wi-Fi system, that can help us to access the materials or do conversation anytime anywhere we go. But I think the memory is not big to store all of our data and also the monitor is too small, makes me dizzy at all L.

            The second one is Mobile phone. I think in this globalization era everyone has mobile phone and maybe more than one Hahaha. I assume this is the most economic mobile learning tools. Some function that we can use from this tool is we can do mobile conversation like e-buddy, YM, video call etc. Also we can register to one mobile English club that will send each material every day.

            I-Phone and I-Pod will be the last. By comparing 2 previous tools, I state that these are the most sophisticated tool than others. Because both of this have really amazing program. The program is more complete than others. We also can browse to the some learning website on i-Tunes to download some materials. It looks so more sophisticated only by looking at the apple symbol on the behind.

            Overall, this is not impossible, remember not impossible to do mobile learning guys. We are as digital natives have to be familiar to this kind of things. Hopefully, it will be useful for you. Cheers! :D