كيفية استخدام التكنولوجيا في صف اللغة العربية لتحفيز الطلاب

Why Socrative rather than any other tech tool? What are the Benefits / Pedagogical Implications?

 لماذا سوكراتيف وليس أي أداة أخرى؟ هناك عشرة أسباب توصفت إليها تجعلني أفضّل هذه الأداة عن أي أداة أخرى

I found out ten reasons why educators should use Socrative rather than any other tool.

1-Providing immediate feedback.

2-Taking attendance.

3-Increasing the students’ digital literacy (i.e. using the Arabic keyboard).

4-Transforming the students’ homework from the traditional way to an interactive way.

5-Saving all quizzes and tasks for future use.

6-Self paced learning.

7- Increasing students’ autonomy.

8-Visualizing students’ understanding.

9- Creating supportive classroom environment.

10- Types of learning: Writing - Reading - Listening.

 في النهاية أترككم مع آراء الأساتذة والطلاب عن هذه الوسيلة التكنولوجية الرائعة

Let me conclude my thoughts and observations about Socrative with these testimonials from some of my students and colleagues who attended my previous workshops:

“Socrative is the teacher’s friendly, fun, and most effective classroom engagement app. By utilizing this free and flexible tool, educators of all subject matters are able to initiate formative and summative assessments in the classroom.  Moreover, by creating content-rich quizzes, bell work, and exit tickets, educators are able to display instantly the students’ individual/and or team responses followed by feedback to spark dynamic learning, peer-to-peer communication, team competition, and problem- solving. I highly recommend using this instantaneous cloud-based platform.”

Nabila Hammami, Ph.D.

Arabic Instructor/World Language Department Head

Dearborn Public Schools

Fordson High School

English Instructor, Henry Ford College

“Socrative is very useful application for a student to make review on the topics that he/she learned. I did not know this application until my Arabic professor Mohamad Ansary introduced it to us in the class last spring. He used this app. to make review, to keep us on the track, to push us to do our homework and to take attendance. Socrative helped a lot improving my Arabic, keep myself updated, and follow the topics since as a student sometimes it sounds tempting to not do homework and not submit your paper daily. Also, it makes everything easier for the instructor including taking attendance and answering the questions in the class instead of reading the papers of each student and grading as well as giving feedback. After I knew this application, I started using it for my own classes. Las semester, I was working as a TA and leading discussion classes of Religion of Islam. I realized that my students participated more, they paid more attention to the class and they had less absences because of Socrative. Also, I got good feedbacks from my students about Socrative. Socrative led them to do weekly review before coming to class because they knew that I prepared small quiz for them. In short, Socrative provides a good opportunity to learn and teach for students and instructors.”

Atacan Atakan

Ph.D.  Student

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona

 “After I had been introduced to Socrative in my Arabic class,

 I started to use it in my position as a TA in my GenEd classes.

 It has proven to be very helpful, especially with regards to getting

 immediate feedback on the students' progress.”

Miriam Mayer

Ph.D.  Student

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona

"One of the best aspects of Socrative, besides how easy it was to use, is that we received instant feedback on our homework, so I could correct any mistakes right away. In addition, I could redo the exercises which allowed for additional practice to better grasp the grammar concepts and the vocabulary we were using for the exercise.”

Aaron James Graybill

MA Student

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona

“I found Socrative to be a great resource and learning tool in the study of Arabic. The flexibility of accessing lessons via smartphone or computer at any time is wonderful. Additionally, our instructor allowed us to access each lesson as many times as we needed to understand the material which truly made it a learning tool and not just a testing device. It was also nice to see how we compared (anonymously) with our classmates, and the comparison allowed our instructor to see the areas in which we collectively needed more instruction. I think Socrative is a great addition to a learning environment.”

 Jennifer LaMoureaux

The School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona

“The Socrative app was an excellent tool for quizzing the students grasp of the vocabulary informally and frequently. I enjoyed seeing the results immediately after finishing the activities.”

Anthony McGee

The School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona

“The first time I ever used Socrative was for my Arabic class.

As soon as I used it I knew how helpful it was going to be.

Socrative helped me understand my mistakes by giving me instant feedback. Whenever I would make a mistake I would log out and start all over, this really helped me. It also saved me a lot of time doing homework. I really like Socrative and would like more classes to use it.”

Jacqueline Cheang

The School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The University of Arizona