Integration of digital education tools in Arabic language teaching and learning - the SAMR model Mohamed Amer, ILI Cairo, Egypt and Q&A session

By analyzing the Net Generation’s motivation to use the digital technology and identifying the activities that are involved in the process we can pinpoint the essential characteristics that guide the best practice for integrating the digital tools and resources in teaching and learning. Those tools are generally characterized by one or more of the following attributes: • adaptive to individual preferences • providing opportunities for collaboration and sharing • offering sense of community • profiling individuals according to their contributions • maintaining stealth user assessment and giving ranking • community recognition and individual motivation • activity tracking and reporting on demand Supplementing our teaching with digital tools in a way that lacks to any of those attributes will only result in offering variety of materials format and activities without getting out of the traditional classroom box. This presentation will showcase a mobile friendly web application that provides teachers and students with a platform for hosting structured and collaborative activities to practice reading and listening of media Arabic web content. The application implements the SAMR model higher levels of modification and redefinition. Both the application and activities try as much as possible to create a small learning community with collaboration, sharing and ranking functions. The presentation will showcase a live demo of the application as well as an overview of other related implementations and projects.

University of Leeds

3/28/2017 8:07:14 AM