Personal Information

 Teaching Assistant

Department of  Communication Skills

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Contact Information

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Email: saalshehri@kau.edu.sa

Samyah abdullah M Alshehri

 Teaching Assistant

Profile

MEd in Technology , Creativity and Thinking

Currently - PhD student in University of Southampton , UK

Education

  • 2013

    Master degree from EducationCollege of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter, إكستر, بريطانيا

Employment

Research Interests

  • The potential impacts of culture on creativity (in education) -based on both individualist and collectivist theories-.
  • The change of the meaning of (Knowledge) in the Knowledge age
  • Some approaches to teach thinking in schools e.g. Philosophy for children, Lateral thinking, Social and Emotional Learning approaches, the whole thinking schools approach , a 21st century skills approach involving dialoguing and  thinking together.
  • The shifting from PC Era to apple-ization of smart devices and its impacts on education.
  • Using blogging as a learning environment in higher education
  • A consideration of key ethical questions regarding  Internet Access   and whether it affords Democracy or Surveillance,  enhances learning or detracts  from it ,and so on
  • Factors that may enhance applying technology in schools successfully.
  • Group cognition and CSCL (Computer-supported collaborative learning)
  • Off site sources of education were considered and explored including   for instance museums and galleries. An analysis of the ways these off site sources of educational activity can enhance /stimulate creativity through learning process was also taken forward.

Scientific interests

Courses

Thinking Skills 102 COMM
Communication Skills 101 COMM

Areas of expertise