ICT as a tutor is a very appealing strategy to support my teaching where I can use available resources on the web as well as develop my own software to enhance my teaching methods and help my students understand easily in the way the like more.
ICT tools as tutor can be:
1. Drill And Practice: It "promotes the acquisition of knowledge or skill through repetitive practice." It refers to small tasks such as the memorization of spelling or vocabulary words, or the practicing of arithmetic facts and may also be found in more sophisticated learning tasks or physical education games and sports.
2. Tutorial: it is to assist users in learning how to use (parts of) a software product. There are two kinds of software tutorials: movie tutorials that the user views; and interactive tutorials where the user follows on-screen. Some computer based tutorials can also be put up on the Web.
I usually refer to this website to get the help for any programming problem I face in many programming languages.
3. Simulation: is based on the process of modeling a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually performing that operation.
4. Games: are games that have been designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. They include board, card, and video games.
I would like to go more it this field but I may face some difficulties in selecting the appropriate resources due to:
1. Cultural values of those resources might be away from our values.
2. Relevant to our content knowledge.
3. Rarely available Arabic resources.
4. Level of difficulty
My target goal is to enjoy teaching and make my students love the learning process. And these tools offer us a great chance to fulfill this goal.
