Boostering Students' Life Skill through IT Based Project Learning

DOI

10.2991/ictte-17.2017.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

students' life skill; project based learning; IT learning media; real world context

Abstract

The Indonesia Qualification Framework (IQF) implicitly states that institutions serving undergraduate program should prepare students with life skill through their curriculum development. In the undergraduate program curriculum, hard skills and soft skills have to be given accordingly; hence, life skills as the outcome are gained simultaneously. Due to the background above, this research is questioning how the mixing of Information and Technology (IT) as learning media and project based as learning method can booster the students' life skills. Conducting classroom action research is the right method to answer the question. Taking a class of Business English Writing in English Department Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University, this research was handled within the whole semester. The result shows that project based learning is best applied when it is combined with the use of IT and provided with the context of real world because students life skills have to meet the today world needs in which they have to be able to work with IT and develop entrepreneurship as part of life skills.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dewi Wahyuni
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DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Boostering Students' Life Skill through IT Based Project Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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