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PROCEEDING 2016 International Conference on Education Social Science UK-ICESS Educational and Social Issues in the Changing Asia ISBN: 978-602-19859-7-7 96 Many Schools, education institutions have tried to create the curriculum, techniques and plans concerning to this situation, meaning how to apply ICTs in the process of teaching learning process. Lee 2000 proposed the reason why the use of ICTs should be applied in teaching learning process. He said that by applying the computer and internet ICTs, it might build students‘ motivation, enhance students‘ achievement, and give an authentic material for study. Unfortunately, teachers and students have not used effectively this tool in the teaching learning activities. It happens because teachers still like to use the traditional method face-to- face or in other words, teachers are as the subject of teaching. Students just accept materials passively without being given the chance or opportunity to observe analyze and understand the materials well. How can teachers and students interact themselves in class to improve the teaching and learning process? Using ICT Blended Learning in classes is hoped to attract students to be involved in the activities and teachers also can improve the way of teaching. Concerning with maturity, Caroline DaSilva in her article entitled ―how students maturity levels impact learning‖ stated that maturity is a measure of using good judgment, understanding cause and effect, being able to associate what being done. She also stated that maturity plays a role in a person‘s ability to accept responsibility for his or her own thoughts, feeling and behaviors. Therefore, the process of learning using Blended learning might govern personal responsibility, openness to new ideas and of course the ability to find solutions to problems. Students are challenged to improve not only their skills independently but also their personality, in this case, their maturity as well. As mentioned above, the effectiveness of Blended learning actually has become a consideration in teaching learning process. It is because Blended Learning provides students more chances to develop their skills, critical thinking, or even personalities. By applying Blended Learning in the process of teaching and learning process, students will feel free in expressing their ideas and it can make at last the students more mature in selecting the materials given, in evaluating the project and many more. RELATED WORK The term ―Blended Learning‖ might be familiar for those who are involved in education. And this technique nowadays could be said as the most frequently used in teaching learning process. We might ask why Blended Learning could be more effective than the old technique one face to face technique. Based on the term ―Blended‖, it is clear that in blended Learning method or technique, we combine the traditional F2F learning systems and the use of computer based systems. In other words, it combines online and face to face instruction. So, the traditional F2F learning typically occurred in a teacher-centered environment is combined with the optimizing the use of ICT based learning. Consequently, students are urged to increase their level of active learning and achieve better students ‘ experiences which means, they could increase their critical thinking and the ability of using ICT. Blended Learning technique is considered widely used in teaching learning process because both teacher and students try to develop the skills through the materials ICTs. The content of the materials could be video, film, conference. Those things should be done integrated so that the purpose of the learning using this technique that is to give big chances to students to construct knowledge themselves than memorizing the knowledge is fulfilled. In the students centered method, teachers function as facilitators and students as the subjects of the activities. The combination of student centered method and traditional one in teaching learning activity could help students and teachers develop the capability of increasing PROCEEDING 2016 International Conference on Education Social Science UK-ICESS Educational and Social Issues in the Changing Asia ISBN: 978-602-19859-7-7 97 the knowledge. Blended Learning method ICT is included in this way is the alternative way to solve and increase the students‘ interests in learning materials. Related to the s tudents‘ maturity, Blended learning supports this phenomenon. It is because by learning materials through internet moodle, claroline, quipper, the materials given make students more motivated, provide students to have greater interaction, increase individual improvement and engage students to have global understanding. Lee, 2000. THE IMPACT OF BLENDED LEARNING In applying a certain method in teaching learning process, we always find some impacts whether it gives advantages or disadvantages. Some researchers have revealed those issues related to the Blended Learning, as proposed by Sarah Bright 2014. A. The advantages of Blended Learning:  The flexibility in administering the course. The teacher may improve the quality of teaching learning process by encouraging students to do some learning activity outside the classroom such as finding additional sources and references on the internet and taking online quizzes or test.  Collaborative learning experiences. Collaboration between the students and instructor can increase substantially via an online training platform. With many collaborative tools online discussions, blogs, instant messages, etc. the students are able to connect with each other in or out of the classroom.  Better communication. Communication is improved between lecturers and part- timefull-time students. An online training platform can provide many communication tools such as news announcements, e-mail, instant messaging, online discussions, online grading tool, drop boxes, and more. B. The disadvantages of Blended Learning:  Blended learning needs massive internet connection in its administration. If it is applied in school or region which has no adequate internet connection, the blended learning will lose its role to improve the quality of teaching learning process and eventually decrease the effectiveness of language learning.  Strong technological dependence. The tech resources and tools need to be reliable, easy to use, and up to date in order for the use of the Internet to have a meaningful impact on the learning experience.  Lack of IT knowledge. IT literacy can serve as a significant barrier for students attempting to get access to the course materials. The availability of technical support is a must. METHOD This research is a descriptive qualitative study. The subjects or respondents of this research are 65 senior high school students and 20 senior high school teachers at Saint Ursula Senior high school Jakarta. This school has applied ICT in their learning process and some teachers also have tried to improve the techniques of teaching by using Blended Learning. The questionnaires were used to collect the data and they were adapted from Survey of schools: ICT and education developed by European Commission. The questionnaires were divided into two parts, they are questionnaire for teachers and students and they are about ICT in learning process and its impact to student‘s maturity. PROCEEDING 2016 International Conference on Education Social Science UK-ICESS Educational and Social Issues in the Changing Asia ISBN: 978-602-19859-7-7 98 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION In this part, the study shows the chart as the result of the questionnaire that has been distributed and calculated. The questionnaires were divided into two parts for two participants. The first questionnaire was about the use of ICT in teaching learning process and it was for teachers whereas the second one was about the use ICT and studen t‘s maturity and they were for students. There were 20 teachers and 65 students.

A. Questions for teachers:

Figure 1: The use of ICT in teaching learning process as the tool of Blended Learning. The diagram above showed the teachers‘ responses about ICT related to teaching learning process. The first question asked whether teachers were familiar with ICT or not. 16 teachers answered that they knew and familiar with ICTs computers and internet, and 4 teachers stated that they were not familiar with it. It was because they felt they were too old already and to study computers and internet might need more time to study. The second question asked the teachers whether this tool help teachers in teaching learning process. 85 teachers 17 people answered that the use of ICT in class of course helps teachers in teaching. They feel this ICT makes the process more interesting and easy to understand. Teachers just explain the theory in front of the class and they can give assignment to students using internet so that students can have more information about the topic being discussed. 3 teachers or 15 said that the use of ICT is not useful because it is too complicated. It needs more times to prepare the material using ICT. This answer was agreed by all teachers. It happened because teachers should select materials carefully, to make questions concerning the material given and check carefully before the material sent to internet using Claroline or moodle, for examples. To support this activity, school should provide the internet and other facilities related to ICT. 90 teachers said that school has already provided these facilities well so that they can use it without any difficulty. The last question was about the student‘s maturity. 75 teachers or 15 people claimed that the process teaching and learning in class or outside the classroom using ICT could make and increase student‘s maturity. β5 or 5 teachers do not agree with the statement because they thought that it was not always this method increase the stud ent‘s maturity. It depended on the personality of student. Based on the data display, it can be concluded that most teachers responded positively toward the use of ICT in learning process in classroom and outside the classroom. The combination of methods in teaching and learning process traditional and use of ICT could be 5 10 15 20 25 Yes No PROCEEDING 2016 International Conference on Education Social Science UK-ICESS Educational and Social Issues in the Changing Asia ISBN: 978-602-19859-7-7 99 very useful for students in understanding the materials and increase the students‘ interests so that they become more mature in facing and understanding the material. B. Questions for students: B.1. Students‟ learning process: Figure 2: Students‟ learning process Blended learning in teaching and learning process is hoped to make the class interesting and students are more motivated in learning the materials. Teachers selected the materials and sent to the internet and students do the exercises or tests provided. Related to the process of student‘s learning using Blende Learning, the students were asked some questions to know whether it is useful or not. The first and second questions were about whether students were familiar with ICT or not and knew about traditional method and E-learning method. Most students 75 = 50 students agree that they were very familiar with ICT and knew about face-to-face and e- learning techniques. Since students were very familiar and capable in using ICT in their learning process, questions number three and four clearly showed that students liked and were happy to study using computers and open applications like quipper, moodle and many more. Questions five and six are related to each other. Students were asked whether they could understand the materials more easily and the content of materials given arose their motivation or not. Most students answered that learning materials given by teachers using ICT made them easily to understand the materials. Since students felt comfortable in learning the materials, they answered question number six by stated that they could easily find additional information related to the materials. They thought that when teachers explained the materials in the class, it was just a little bit information that they had to know. To get further information, students might use internet and could do the exercises given at home alone or in group discussion. 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 students learning process strongly agree agree disagree strongly disagree