Opinions and Expectations of Parents on Integration of Mobile Technologies to Education and School Family Cooperation

Abstract

Abstract-This study underlines the importance of mobile technologies in school family cooperation process. The aim is to specify expectations from mobile technologies and parent's opinions and capacity of mobile learning whose children attend to elementary and primary schools at Nicosia, TRNC. In this study which is conducted in a survey model frame, 790 parents involved in the study group to specify parent's level of using mobile tools, their opinions on usage of mobile devices in an educational purpose and on improvement of school-family cooperation with mobile technologies.In the study, a 2 dimensioned survey form used as data collection tool and gathered data processed appropiately to statistical teqniques with SPSS 21 package application. In data analysis, frequency, percentage values, t-test and Kruskal-Wallis tests are used. This is confirmed that parent's opinion on the usage of mobile devices in an educational pupose is generally positive. On the other hand, this is also clear that the parent's opinions on school-family cooperation and family participation with mobile technologies are positive. Parents stated that they can take education and information from relevant people of school with mobile technologies on child development and education. Also they specified the necessity of communicating with mobile technologies to take school-family cooperation to an advanced level.

Motivation of Parents Towards Reading Multilingual eBooks To Pre-School Children

“…A high level of acceptance of digital print reading among parents regardless of their education levels and multilingual literacy skills, which is consistent with the findings of Radesky, Schumacher, and Zuckerman [15] is evident. Similar to the findings of Ozdamli and Yildiz [13], parents also acknowledged that they developed positive attitudes towards mobile devices and the value of MALL in the context of multilingual learning. One obvious evidence recorded in the MMSR was that parents repeatedly read eBooks with their children.…”

“…Most parents have indicated that they prefer conventional printed books because books are highly portable and there is no reliance on battery power [4]. Albeit some parents maintain that their children prefer reading using printed books compared to eBooks [12], the use of touchscreen tablets among young children is undeniably increasing in homes [7] and more parents acknowledge the positive effects of mobile devices on children's motivation towards digital reading [13]. With frequent exposure to digital print in homes, children are found to be more likely to read on screens than on paper outside the school and are more likely to say that they prefer to read on screen than on paper [14].…”

Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment

“…, 2015; Serin, 2012; Özdamlı and Yıldız, 2014; Oz et al. , 2021; Ozdamli and Yildiz, 2017), though their study did not consider LDfs. As earlier reported, our result indicates that when m-learning is integrated with teaching practices, there will be changes in learning outcomes depending on the effectiveness of the teaching practice in producing the desired result.…”

“…Furthermore, some of their conclusions may not be applicable in present educational situations given the changes in modes of instruction delivery and debates on LDfs in language teaching. Besides, although similar recent studies within this context have acknowledged the effectiveness of mobile learning (Oz et al, 2021;Ozdamli and Yildiz, 2017), these laudable investigations have not considered integrating responsive LDfs (teaching practices/methods) with mobile learning in areas like expressive/productive skills which recent studies recommend, rather they have utilized a different approach in their studies. Another recent study emphasized that studies on m-learning within the European context are scarce requiring more studies that would capture the role of mobile learning in language education (Odabasi et al, 2019).…”

Opinions of Teacher Candidates on the Usage of Mobile Applications in the Multimedia Development Processes

“…Several learning activities can be performed with mobile devices. Mobile learning can be used with the purpose of supporting conventional learning [1] as well as for distance learning [2,3,4].…”