INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS THE SUPPORT OF STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING

What can you say to the objection that a student-centered learning environment can be noisy and unwieldy?

The student centered classroom describes as an approach on Education that focuses on the interest of the students, rather than those involve in teaching learning process like teachers or administrators. Student centered learning environment is focused on the students interest, abilities, multiple intelligences, and learning preferences which placed the teacher as a facilitator in the classroom.

            A student-centered learning environment can be noisy and unwieldy because the student doesn’t want to work with peers, they complain about being on teams where they tend to have difficulty in working with other students and lacking for team skills. Some of the students in a student-centered classroom keep on talking, where the classroom environment become busy and noisy. If the teacher cannot deliver the proper instruction, the students might misinterpret the meaning of it. There are also some students who are not comfortable in working with others and want to become alone. There are some points that a student may have misconception when they only read the ideas or concepts wherein they form wrong knowledge in their minds because the teacher did not elaborate well the concepts about a certain topic. That’s why the teacher must also provide the better and clear explanation prior on the learning process of the students.

            This type of approach seems very difficult in the part of the teacher because of some disadvantages in teaching and learning processes as well as the students are differently not alike in terms of multiple intelligence and learning preferences.