A case study of Jawi Editor in the XO-laptop simulated environment

Abstract

Jawi script is an important Malay heritage that has been in general, replaced by the Roman script. From a dominant writing in Malay world, the usage of Jawi is confined mostly in Islamic religious context nowadays. As an initiative to encourage the learning of Jawi, this research proposed a Jawi Editor running on the XO-laptop which considered as a new technology used in education, this technology introduced by One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization. OLPC concerned of giving a laptop for every child in the developing countries to encourage them in education. XO-laptop allows collaboration and cooperation between teacher and students and between students themselves by working in groups. In this new technology of education the XO-laptop plays a main role of transferring the teacher and students roles in the class from the traditional way to the computerize technology. The aim of this research is to develop and contribute a Jawi Editor in the XO-laptop simulated environment to help the Jawi teachers and students in classes, to compile several development guidelines of Jawi-like systems in the XO-laptop simulated environment and to conduct a case study of teacher-student interaction using the Jawi Editor in the XO-laptop simulated environment.