Skout Benefits and Its Grammar Checker

How technology will shape learning, this is very interesting thing to be blown into the minds of the all who are learning with the technology, and those too, who want to learn through technology by social media. One of social media is Skout. Skout is the developer of a location-based social networking and communicates with others by sending message and recording. This social media was released first time in 2007 and Nicklund states “Over 500 million connections were made using its app in 2013 and it is available in 180 countries and 16 languages.” Skout was one of the first mobile people discovery applications to emphasize generalized user location and the application also allows users to instant message or send virtual gifts to one another. Niklas Lindstrom (2009) states that over 80% of site’s users of communicating tools is known by the network people application discovery similarily, more than 10 million members had again that announced by SKOUT. Currently, Skout is being used by many people. By seeing a number of its users, many reasons why people use this application. In relation to education itself, two benefits of Skout are as a multicultural education and practice speaking ability. First of all, it is used as a multicultural education. This app provides a service that allows account holders to create unique personal profiles and communicate with other members by sending message based on location. The location is created or set by the users which country will users use to communicate. By chatting with other people from another country, it can develop student’s knowledge about the world. This app allows users to set which country will be chosen, that’s why students will learn how to adaptation, socialization, and get feedback after interact each other. For example, when students get to communicate with new people by sending a message, it will develop student’s mind to interact which try to ask or tell about that person life, country, and so on. Skout states “More than a million messages are sent to its users daily, and spends 40 minutes a day using the service.” Second, Skout helps students practicing their speaking ability by recording in order to communicate. Thus, speaking skills are a vitally important method of communication.The four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing is all interconnected.The capacity to put words together in a meaningful way to reflect thoughts, opinions, and feelings provides the speaker with these important advantages:Paul Seligson (1997) states “Very few students will become fluent speakers but they can probably speak more than they do now [and] they can easily be made to feel more comfortable.” This idea that teachers expectations of their learners are unrealistically high could, in fact, be a barrier to our helping them to improve. Therefore, speaking with people from other country is the best method that students use to develop their ability. In conclusion, two benefits of Skout for English learners are as a multicultural education and as a place to practice speaking ability. Social media itself will give a good impact for the users as long as it is used wisely and properly. By these two reasons, then Skout usage will be more helpful for learners, because they read, see, speak even listen to the message while communicating. Users will think critically by sending or recording a message. Users also will be motivated to practice their ability such as speaking, reading, listening, and writing.