Mobile Phones: Not a Distraction in the Classroom But a Means of Engagement?

Lahlafi, Alison; Rushton, Diane

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32622-1_2

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“…Besides, with regard to the benefits of both mobile phone and PowerPoint, students of control group, according to their lecturer were not "motivated" whereas according to lecturer experimental group, students were" extremely motivated". This is direct in line with (Lahlafi & Rushton, 2016;Lee, 2015) who believed mobile phones raise level of academic motivation.…”

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“…However, the pedagogues are busy wallowing in the past and "still doing a great many things the old way" (Prensky, 2005)whereas technology prevails all around. Besides, mobile technology has the potential to engage and motivate the students (Lahlafi and Rushton (2016). According to Sung, Chang and Liu (2016) mobile phones not only promote innovation in education but they also help conventional lecture style teaching by gathering and sharing information.…”

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“…English is the most widely spread as well as spoken language of the globe (Kitao, 1996) helping individuals and nations to attain their personal and national goals (Schramma & Srinivasan, 2015). However, in this digital or googling age (Lahlafi and Rushton, 2016) when mobile phones can help learn "almost anything" (Prensky, 2005), pedagogues in the public sector colleges in Pakistan are employing the age old conventional methods to impart language skills especially the writing skills. Besides, according to Keller (2016) "technology infusions into learning environments have grown exponentially during the past two decades", therefore, now it is the need of the hour that the pedagogues must use mobile phones to help learning writing skills so that Pakistani students can also have their due share in the global development.…”

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The Role of Mobile Phone and Powerpoint in Enhancing Writing Skills: Lecturers’ Reflections

Siddique

Singh²

2016

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These day mobile phones are being resorted to as indispensable pedagogical tools for imparting language skills to the present day students who are termed as ‘Generation Y’, ‘Net Generation’ and above all ‘Digital Natives’. Mobile phones have the potential to be reliable pedagogical tool to teach writing which is the most neglected skills to the intermediate students. The current paper examines the perceptions of two lecturers regarding the use of mobile phones and PowerPoint in teaching descriptive essay writing skills to intermediate students at M.A.O. College, Lahore. The qualitative data for this purpose was collected by means of semi-structured interviews from those two lecturers who taught experimental as well as control groups respectively. The findings of the study indicated that the lecturer of experimental group was very much in favour of mobile phones to be incorporated in the teaching writing class. Even the lecturer of control group favoured the use of new technology as she was not in favour of PowerPoint to be used for teaching writing skills. Moreover, the findings of the study indicated that the mobile phones can very easily, successfully and conveniently be employed as pedagogical tool to impart writing skills as they can motivate the lecturers for teaching as well as the students for learning the writing skills.

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The Role of Mobile Phone and Powerpoint in Enhancing Writing Skills: Lecturers’ Reflections

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Singh²

2016

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“…Early incarnations of this technology restricted student engagement to responding to multiple-choice questions, using what were commonly referred to in the literature as 'clickers' (see Patterson, Kilpatrick, and Woebkenberg 2010;Stowell 2015). This later evolved to exploit the ubiquitous availability of mobile phones (Hatun Ataş and Delialioğlu 2017; Stowell 2015) and further to include web-based platforms (Chou 2003;Lahlafi and Rushton 2016) with dedicated applications that accommodated short answer text.…”

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Have a question? Just ask it: using an anonymous mobile discussion platform for student engagement and peer interaction to support large group teaching

Tan

Small

Lewis

2020

Research in Learning Technology

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This article analyses the pilot of an anonymous question and answer mobile application with a large cohort of undergraduate students (460) enrolled on an Operations Strategy Management module. The mobile application allowed students to pose anonymous questions to both peers and staff, create replies and vote on questions posted by other users. The aim of the pilot was to evaluate how this application could be used to enhance communication, engagement and student learning both inside and outside of class time to overcome some of the challenges presented by large cohort teaching. An initial evaluation was undertaken exploring both the analytics attached to the platform and a thematic analysis of the posts. The initial findings of the pilot were positive, with the majority of students installing and regularly accessing the application with use increasing over time. The questions posed demonstrated engagement beyond surface-level memorisation of module content, and there were indications that the application could be beneficial in supporting student community awareness and interaction within large cohorts.

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The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory

Hubbard

Birycka

Britton

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Journal of Biological Education

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Mobile Phones: Not a Distraction in the Classroom But a Means of Engagement?

Cited by 3 publications

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The Role of Mobile Phone and Powerpoint in Enhancing Writing Skills: Lecturers’ Reflections

The Role of Mobile Phone and Powerpoint in Enhancing Writing Skills: Lecturers’ Reflections

Have a question? Just ask it: using an anonymous mobile discussion platform for student engagement and peer interaction to support large group teaching

The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory

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