Pedagogy in the Digital Age: Making Learning Effective and Engaging for Students

Abstract

No one can argue that children of today are not the same as children of 10 or 15 years ago. Children are now growing in an ever-changing world, in a context that is way different from what existed before which makes change in education a necessity and an inevitable aim that needs to be taken into consideration because children cannot be taught with traditional teaching methods and approaches anymore. For this purpose, this paper addresses not only teachers of English but also teachers of other subjects to make them aware of the existence of such tools and encourage them to implement them to transform their teaching and Moroccan students’ perception of learning. This paper is twofold; first, an overview of some interactive learning sites. Second, a case study about the extent to which English teachers in Morocco are familiar with, mainly 5 interactive learning sites, namely Kahoot!, Quizlet, Quizalize, Wooclap, and Jeopardylabs, their use of them, their satisfaction of their services, and their recommendations. Data shows that most teachers are familiar with all the sites except Wooclap. Regardless of their familiarity of them, only few teachers use these sites in their classroom. The ones they reported using the most were Kahoot! and Quizlet. Yet, in contrast to their use and the satisfaction they expressed with the two sites, they recommend their colleagues and other teachers to use the other sites as well. The results found cannot be used to generalize the findings on English teachers in Morocco.