Action Research: Employment of Modern Technologies in the Field of Educational
Technology (Students)
Background
The employments of educational technology innovations in the
teaching of important issues, and contemporary, have realized that the destiny
of nations depends on the creativity of its people, and the extent of their
challenge to the problems of change and its demands. Education occupies a
prominent position within the framework of societal transformation, and that
education is one of the most important pillars covered by the change and
renewal.
It could be argued that the success of recruitment technology
education innovations in teaching depends on the degree of ownership parameter
of the knowledge and skills necessary for the use of educational technology
innovations and how to deal with it. Primarily this leads to affect the
students learning.
Research Area
The employment of modern technology methods in the field of
educational technology , as well as to identify the efficiency of the student
to benefit from this modern means of education and its impact in raising the
level of absorption of the student and his involvement in the educational
process.
Research Objective
This research aims to participate
students from many different schools and levels in a questionnaire to find out
about their IT knowledge in general and how does IT effect in their learning at
home and inside school, also needs to know their awareness about technologies
and how they get benefit from it. In the other hand we wanted to know what kind
of technologies those are available at home and how often the students are
using them either at home or in school, also students' ability in using such
technologies.
Data collection method
The questionnaire was designed during the second semester of
the academic year (March to May 2012). At the first, we met together to discuss
the purpose and the objectives of the questionnaire. Also to agree on the
content of the questions raised by this questionnaire, this concentrated on the
use of modern technology in the field of educational technology for students in
particular.
Then we move directly to the design phase of the
questionnaire, which includes a special section for the personal information, 21
multiple choice questions and three essay questions. Generally, the questionnaire
questions focused on how the students' able to deal with and take advantage of
modern methods in the educational process and how is the use of modern methods
in the learning process helps them to raise the level of understanding and their
involvement in the educational process.
After agreeing on the content of the questionnaire and
auditing it, we made an electronic copy of the questionnaire using Google Forms
as well as printed copies. To move to the stage of distribution, we
distributed the questionnaire to a number of girls and boys schools in
different areas (will be clarified later), after we took the approval of the course
coordinator. At the beginning we clarified the aim of the questionnaire for the
students and this will have no implication on their grades. They have been
assured that the information they gave for the purpose of the research will be
used only for the course improvement and that it will be kept safely.
The questionnaire distribution process was by giving the
students hard copies of the questionnaire or by the use of electronic versions
for the students who receive lessons in the computer labs. Electronic responses
are received by e-mail and the printed responses are collected and converted
into electronic versions for ease of analysis and discussion.
Finally, after collecting the questionnaire data, we
distributed the tasks among the group members to begin the process of analysis
and processing for the final report. On the other hand, we faced some
difficulties which are the difficulty of distributing the questionnaire to the
boys' schools, also they were not commitment and not cooperative in collecting
and sending the questionnaire responses.
Time scale
We distributed the questionnaire for the students at the end
for March 2012. Then we collected the feedback and analyzed it. Finally after
collecting our findings and results we reflected on the results and summary our
recommendations by the end of May 2012.
Group Members
Rawan Alomary 20052892
Reem Alnoaimi 20115111
Noora Alsubaie 20115109
Nafeesa Buzaid 20030208
Seham Salem 19992029
Ebtesam Salem 20115190
Muna Ali 20115185
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