OPTIMIZING THE INTERNET TO ENHANCE TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstrak / Ringkasan

This paper is written in order to contribute an ideas regarding to the importance of the
Internet as a part of professional development of vocational school teachers. Teachers have a
strategic role on empowering and learning in schools. Nowadays in Indonesia, teachers as a
profession, consequently they should be aware to improve performance, competency, maintain
and also their professionalism. On the other hand, rapidly information technology development
allows the Internet can be used as an alternative medium for teachers’ professional
development. Varied information can be retrieved openly and quickly via internet. But the
question is, how can teachers convert information from internet into useful knowledge to: their
self development, produce scientific papers, and to work innovatively. Those are a product of
teacher professional development. To be effective information into knowledge, knowledge
management is required to vocational secondary teachers, which can be briefly stated as
“learning to know what we know”. This paper will describe knowledge management approach as
a strategy to optimize the information from the Internet into useful knowledge for teachers’
professional development of vocational secondary schools.

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