The Effectiveness of Using Static Infographics in a ‎Blended Learning Environment Digital Citizenship ‎Concepts and Visual Thinking Skills Enhancement ‎among Female Students in the Kindergarten ‎Department at Umm Al Qura University

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to specify the appropriate instructional design for the use of static infographics in a blended learning environment to enhance digital citizenship concepts and visual thinking skills among the female students of the Kindergarten Department at Umm Al-Qura University. The sample of the study consisted of 26 female students. The study adopted a descriptive analytical approach and a semi-experimental approach based on one group with a pre-post test. To achieve the aims of the study, designed content analysis card of the course for using the educational computer, static Infographics designs, a number of tools and applications of the blended learning environment, an achievement test of the digital citizenship concepts, and a visual thinking skill test.  These tools were checked, and then the study sample was used with them. The results of the study revealed that the appropriate instructional design for the use of static infographics in a blended learning environment to develop concepts of digital citizenship and visual thinking skills consisted of five main stages, resulting from the integration of the two models (Shaltout, 2019) and the ADDIE. The study found that there are differences of statistical significance at the significance level (α ≤ 0.05) between the average scores of the female students of the experimental group in both applications (pre and post) for the achievement test of the digital citizenship concepts and the visual thinking skill test