Journal of Educational and Learning Studies
Vol 1, No 1 (2018): Journal of Educational and Learning Studies

Using infographics as a technology-based tool to develop 21st century skills in an ESL context

Fetylyana Nor Pazilah (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)
Harwati Hashim (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Jan 2018

Abstract

Technology is advancing every day and there is no stopping to it. It plays a vital role in our daily lives which includes in education field. The use of technology is massively implemented in classrooms as teaching strategies. Old teaching strategies such as visual aids are often improvised to match with the students’ interest. Teachers would usually find it difficult to teach students who are digital natives and demand a much more familiar and casual learning environment. It is also significant for teachers to equip the students with all 21st century skills in an ESL classroom. The students would prefer if the teachers could teach using any technological tools.  Infographics is one of the visual aids that integrates the use of technology. Online application such as Easel.ly can be used to strengthen teaching and learning sessions. Hence, this paper reviewed on the effectiveness of using infographics in developing 21st century skills in an ESL context.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jels

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Mathematics Other

Description

Journal of Educational and Learning Studies is a multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of education, teaching, development, instruction, educational projects and innovations, ...