A PAIR OF SHOES - LTM Digital Storytelling

A Pair of Shoes - Fiction Story

One day, deep in someone’s thought, there was a story of a pair of shoes. There was a girl, little-chubby-girl, and his mom bought a pair of new shoes in a store. “Thank you very much, Mommy! I love these shoes very much! I will wear it every day and keep it always clean,” she said. “You’re welcome, honey. You’re so beautiful with it,” her mom replied. The shoes were very beautiful, the color was red and the size was not big because she was a little girl. She loved her shoes very much. Although it was not expensive, the shoes were very comfortable.

People

Everybody has their own ideal world. Everybody makes their own world: the rule, the people, the standard of life, the things. And sometimes, they won't other people be who themselves if other people have already entered their world. They want other people to follow the rule and to adjust the standard to enter their life.

I'm not saying I am not everybody. Yes, I am everybody. I have my own rule in my world. I also have some standard to make a friend. I have the list of things that I like and dislike.

Again, I'm not saying I am right. This is only an opinion about people nowadays.

Will English Lesson Still Be Effective In Curriculum 2013?

Department of Education in Indonesia has repeatedly changed the curriculum. Public often judge that the change of Minister of Education will be followed by the change of the policy. Education Unit Level Curriculum (=Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan/ KTSP) will be replaced by the Curriculum 2013 in this July 2013. The reason is the failure of some schools to implement KTSP. The educators do not fulfill the teaching requirements demanded by KTSP such as lesson plans (RPP) and syllabus. Even if they have it they just buy and do not teach the way that is written on it. So, the Department of Education assessed it as a failure in the implementation of KTSP. This new curriculum is considered as a process to improve the quality of education. Students are directed to be more creative in learning with observation based learning method and forming networking. However, there are some lessons which are reduced the hours of lesson on the grounds of efficiency and effectiveness in Curriculum 2013, one of which is the English subject. Thus, if the government applied Curriculum 2013 in Senior High School, I believe that English lesson would not be effective anymore because four aspects (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in English would not be achieved, teachers should compress the material, and the compression of the material could not be absorbed by some students optimally.