reflection on teaching ...

i have been teaching for students at higher education in my university. my university is a middle class university at jakarta for its college of education. this college of education mostly attended by girls. i do not know why, but this is common for college of education in Indonesia, or may be at other countries.
the students came for lower and middle class of our society, they are a reflection of struggling middle class society who want to change their life through education. they came from around jakarta province; satellite cities of jakarta like bekasi, tangerang, bogor, depok, karawang; or other provinces like east java, west java, lampung, south sumatra, bangka belitung, central java, etcetra. as i know, the students pictured of education system at the society. they want to success, they need to read books, but they hard to buy some books.
they are mostly muslim with one or two students believe in christ, budhism, or hinduism. its okay to them for study here, even my university associated with secod largest islam organization in Indonesia. we teach sciences, not religion!
while i teach them, mostly ready to listen what i teach to them. like a lecture class style. it is not so surprised to me, they have been taught with that style for years. i want to change their conduct! My lecture began this morning. i changed the seat position to distruct their comfort zone....
I motivated them to think out of box. I inspired by this movie below, to teach them to be different

National Exam

Today Indonesian students from high school held a national exam. People feel it horrible, but for students it like entered the hell. For mem it is necessary for every single person of students to take an exam. There is a standard required to achieve a certain level of education. The problem is, national exam in Indonesia standardized well for all students at all districts in Indonesia. As you know, Indonesia divided into three time zone with different economic degree. Almost 70% of people live at Java island and Sumatra island, West Time Zone of Indonesia. The education system managed well, mostly at Java island. Middle Time Zone and East Time Zone with less people and poor infrastructure for economic and social life. So the education quality is not so good as at West. National Exam still important but it must be managed well in accordance with social condition of our country based on deep research

Technology in Indonesia

Technology in Indonesia is growing fastly, mostly for information and communication technology.This matter endorsed by media branding through newpaper, magazines, television stations, radio station, and internet sites. We Indonesian can buy hi-tech mobile phone produced by chinese companies. But we just consumers and users of the product not the developers. Chinese people is a success story from copy-paste generation to be a creator of ICT.

Mass media have a main role for Indonesian people that never hapen before. Facebook being a popular one for interacting among people. I get benefit from that, I can meet my old friends from intermediate school years and friends from my boardingschool,(graduated at 1994) We can do a reunion meeting at 2009, mostly because we interact with e-mail, mailing list, and facebook. The regulation about ICT still questioned, because our government still arranged an Act about it that approved by all of stakeholders.I can not +
imagine how my children will interact with ICT at the future. Now their father strugling to understand about blogging, website development, e-learning, social media networking, microblogging etcetra. Some higher education shared their lectures through internet. I can not imagine also, how our institution, UHAMKA a higher education will be at 2050. If we do not prepare to face the changes at the future, we will be left.

There are problems in Indonesian ICT development, actually in infrastructure gaps between West and East part of Indonesia. Almost all ICT provider based at Jawa island and get profit from ICT enthusiasts here. We Indonesian have PALAPA sattelite for communication through multicast interaction.

Batu Akik, Cisolok, Taupo, Rotorua

Batu akik adalah salahsatu benda yang aku sukai walaupun pada kenyataannya, sampai sekarang tidak pernah bertahan lama di tangan. Alasannya bisa lupa nyimpan habis wudhu, lupa nyimpan saat mo tidur, ketinggalan di kantor, atau di tempat mana aja. Suka tapi kurang telaten menjaganya kali !

Saya tidak percaya akan adanya batu cincin yang memiliki khasiat gaib, kalaupun ada itu adalah suatu persekutuan jahat antara bangsa jin dan manusia yang mempertuhankannya. Indonesia kaya akan berbagai jenis batu-batu perhiasan, di Jawa Barat yang terkenal dengan batu alam adalah di Kabupaten Sukabumi, selain itu berbagai daerah lain di Indonesia mempunyai jenis-jenis batu alam yang indah dan beragam. Menurut blog batu batu akik, batu mulia tersebut juga memiliki nilai arkeologi yang tinggi. Sebagian daripadanya ada yang berumur puluhan ribu tahun.

Pada perjalanan Tutor Kunjung Pertama mahasiswa PJJ PGSD di Kabupaten Sukabumi, kami menginap di Hotel Augusta di pelabuhan Ratu. Tujuan kami adalah untuk mengecek kemungkinan dipergunakannya lokasi tersebut bagi kegiatan perpisahan/inaugurasi atau graduasi bagi mahasiswa program PJJ PGSD FKIP UHAMKA angkatan tahun 2007.2

Pada kesempatan tersebut kami mengunjungi lokasi Sumber Air Panas Alami di Cisolok yang berasal dari sumber air mineral yang keluar dari bumi secara alami. Pemandangan yang mirip, dengan derajat yang berbeda, dengan pemandangan di Taupo. dan Rotorua, di Pulau sebelah Utara dari Selandia Baru yang saya kunjungi sekitar enam bulan yang lalu. Ada sumber gas, sekitar tiga buah, yang memancarkan air bercampur gas.

Touring to Puncak, Taman Matahari, Safari Hotel

Puncak well known as a place for Jakartan villas. It is a place surrounded with tea plantation owned by government of Indonesian Republic. many motorist groups done a touring journey to Puncak to test the performance of the group's members. If you are a young Jakartan just owned a motorcycle, your mates will requested you to bring a tea leaf from Puncak as a prove for your brave in driving a motorcycle. This route also used as a way to go to Bandung and Cianjur. Before Cipularang Highway designed, people used this unstraight street to go to Bandung, a Paris van Java City. We members of FKIP UHAMKA staff took an advantages to go to Puncak for a family gathering agenda held by management of faculty.
We came with 58 families stayed at Safari Hotel and Restaurant, an acommodation utility owned by Taman Safari, a famous Zoo provider in Indonesia. There were attraction with animals performed here like bird, leopard, elephant and tiger. Then we went to Taman Wisata Matahari, a park for water based entertainment and some edutainment places. I think this place unmanaged well, many people asked us to rent floor mat from them. This is annoying for us. For a natural park, Taman Wisata Matahari didn't show their respect for eco-based management. They just sold a nature but don't keep it clean and many people crowded just for money respect only, no respect for next generation nature and education.
We came from lower and middle class people of Jakartan, some of us never sleep at hotel before. This first experiment give a confused for event organizer. A good experiences to know about people beside our working places and their family

How to Give a Good Chances For Teachers at Remote Area

Director of PMPTK in collaboration with LPMP, 5 School of Education (LPTK: Unima; Uhamka; UNY; Undiksha; and UPI, Seamolec, Ditnaga Dikti will hold a program for teachers at remote area. They will enhanced their qualification to undergraduate program (S-1). My Dean and I followed the meeting as a representative from Uhamka. This program still rearranged between all stakeholders. Will launched at June 2010.

Sukabumi Pelabuhan Ratu

I just arrived from a long journey from three places at the remote are of Jakarta. Firstly, at Saturday 6 of March, 2010 we went to Ciangsana Bogor, at primary School SD Ciangsana IV. This school near from PILAR School, a private school owned by President's family. The school had a good facility as it is an international school with foreign language learned there. My friends and I, came to SD Ciangsana IV to meet with our students from Hybrid Learning System with HYLITE System. At 7 of March we went to meet students from Lebak and Pandeglang at SD Karangtanjung Pandeglang. Our last destination was March 9, 2010 to Sukabumi at SDN CBM Kota Sukabumi. We visited Pelabuhanratu to observe the places for outbond agenda of students. We stayed at AUGUSTA Hotel. for a night, then we went to a natural hot water resources at Cipanas Pelabuhan Ratu. Along the ways we met with Ojek (motor rental) who will bring people to Mak Erot the legend for "vital tool enlargement".

Babby Massage (Pijat Bayi)

I have two kid right now, I paid some money to "dukun pijat bayi" expert of baby message at Kampung Gedong, a sub district at Pasar Rebo district. After I have a second baby, i realize that now there are enormous information about baby message in front of my eyes. So I do googling about it at my computer and I find article about it HERE by Indonesian language titled Tata Cara memijat Bayi.

This skill is very important for parent all around the world, because it will make a good relationship between mother, father, and baby. All dad must learn about it as a best dad:) Baby massage also important to stop them from crying as showed at youtube
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Indonesia Peace

I hear news from my television
century bank gate got a grand final session
there is terorrist at Aceh, but they are not GAM
There are 40 people as victim of Anand Krisna. I think expert of holistic meditation, as a sufi, a founder of Anand Ashram Foundation. Sexual harrasment.

Indonesia must recover from the crisis, we have a lot of people, about 230 million people. Some are don't care about politics and nation-base problems. Some are concern about their hunger stomach. We people just care about our life, not their live. Some parlement guys are so proudly stylish. Sick personality

New Schedule

New Schedule for me, to give a lecture about Social Studies Education for Undergraduate Students of Economic Education Department at their second semester at Muhammadiyah University of Prof. Dr. HAMKA and give a lecture about Social Studies at primary School for Undergraduate Students of Primary School Teacher's Education. All will be held at two days, monday and tuesday.

1. Monday 08.20 - 10.00 Pendidikan IPS/2 Smt II-A Pend. Ekonomi BKK Tata Niaga
10.00 - 11.40 Pendidikan IPS/2 Smt II-B Pend. Ekonomi BKK Tata Niaga

14.40 - 16.40 Pend. IPS di SD/3 Smt II-I Pend. Guru SD

2. Tuesday 07.30 - 09.10 Pendidikan IPS/2 Smt. II-A P.Ekonomi BKK Adm Perkantoran
09.10 - 10.50 pendidikan IPS/2 Smt II-B P. Ekonomi BKK Adm Perkantoran

15.30 - 17.30 Pend. IPS di SD/3 Smt II-H Pend. Guru SD