Open AccessThe Use of Screencast-O-Matic to Improve Students’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Speaking Performance
Author(s) -
Yasmine Machfud
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
tell : teaching of english language and literature/tell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-2443
pISSN - 2338-8927
DOI - 10.30651/tell.v7i2.3177
Subject(s) - creativity , class (philosophy) , psychology , worksheet , mathematics education , critical thinking , pedagogy , computer science , social psychology , artificial intelligence
This study aims to describe the use of screencast-o-matic to improve students’ creativity and critical thinking in speaking performance on class X students, with the total of students is 24. The type of research used was classroom action research. The instruments in this study were the teaching-learning observation sheet, worksheet, and the questionnaire responses of the students. The results of the study shown that: (1) Students had a higher value. (2) Student’ speaking performance in class was increased slowly when the teacher invited them to discuss in class with various questions that required them to come up with ideas. (3) The teacher began to apply critical thinking in the classroom by giving several questions that lead students to think before answering the questions. (4) When students used screencast-o-matic in groups. Each group had its own ideas when using them so that they can be created their own creativity to make a video. Not only creativity, they feel enjoy, comfortable and confident when speaking in front of the camera using screencast-o-matic with English. The use of screencast-o-matic can be increased students' creativity in making a video which can be used by them as media or learning aids to more easily understand it. In addition to creativity, screencast-o-matic media also used as a means for students to develop their new ideas and think critically in responding to something they had made, namely a video reaction about a song.