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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.