Cell Phones in the Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives of Inclusion,Benefits, and Barriers

Historically viewed as a disruption by teachers, cell phones have been banned from 69% of classrooms (Common Sense Media, 2009). The increased ubiquity and instructional features of cell phones have prompted some teachers to re-evaluate the ban and consider the benefits associated with allowing cell phones in the classroom. This study surveyed 79 teachers to determine their perceptions of using cell phones for classroom instruction. Findings indicated that the majority (69%) of teachers support the use of cell phones in the classroom and were presently using them for school-related work. Teachers identified student engagement and motivation as the primary benefits; barriers included lack of access and class disruption.     

Access,use and perceptions of teachers and students towards mobile phones as a tool for teaching and learning in Tanzania

This study explored the access, use and perceptions of teachers and students towards mobile phones as a tool for facilitating teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls. A total of 29 pre-service teachers and four college instructors from Dar es salaam University College of Education (DUCE) as well as 12 in-service teachers and 40 students from Kibasila secondary school in Tanzania, participated in the study. Data were collected by using pre-service teachers’ questionnaire, students’ questionnaire, and the instructors’, and in-service teachers’ interviews. Findings showed that all in-service teachers, college instructors and pre-service teachers had mobile phones. Also 60 % of school students owned mobile phones, or had access to mobile phones. Students, pre-service teachers and college instructors were in favour of the use of mobile phones for learning, but the majority of in-service teachers were against it. Since mobile phones are the most available technological tools in schools, this study, recommend a professional development programme for in-service teachers to help them develop a positive attitude towards mobile phones use in teaching and learning.     

法国校园禁用手机法案的成效与争议

2018年法国国会表决通过了《3~15岁学生在校园内禁止使用手机的法案》,其实早在2010年法国就出台过相关法案,但本次禁机令要求更加严格。目前,法国已超过90%的学生拥有手机,但不当使用给学生带来了手机上瘾症、网络欺凌、学业成绩下降等问题。由于上述原因以及欧洲委员会手机禁令的倡导,法国最终颁布了该法案。法案实施后,学生已经逐渐适应,课堂纪律得到很大的改善,学生课后相互交流和运动的机会大大提高。不过,在实践中也遇到了手机如何存放与管理、家长与孩子如何及时联系等问题。     

Mobile phone images and video in science teaching and learning

This article reports a study into how mobile phones could be used to enhance teaching and learning in secondary school science. It describes four lessons devised by groups of Sri Lankan teachers all of which centred on the use of the mobile phone cameras rather than their communication functions. A qualitative methodological approach was used to analyse data collected from the teachers' planning, observations of the lessons and subsequent interviews with selected pupils. The results show that using images and video captured on mobile phones supported the teachers not only in bringing the outside world into the classroom but also in delivering instructions, in assessing students' learning and in correcting students' misconceptions. In these instances, the way the images from the mobile phone cameras supported students' learning is explained using a variety of approaches to understand how images support learning.     

推进手机移动学习：中小学教师态度与需求

能否在中小学校普及手机移动学习,这是当前国际教育组织、教育行政部门和产业界共同关注的焦点问题。来自北京市4城区11所学校450名教师和管理者的调查数据表明,绝大多数教师都具有积极的技术产品教育应用意向,但反对中小学生持有手机和利用手机进行移动学习。不同学段的教师对推进手机移动学习的需求差异非常显著,小学教师最为积极,初中教师最不积极。在中小学校推进手机移动学习,应引导学校管理者、教师转变理念,客观认识学生手机,逐步认同手机移动学习;应加强宣传,推进本土实践,吸引学校管理者、教师乐于尝试手机移动学习;应增强手机移动学习产品、资源、服务与教育者、学习者、教学过程、学习过程的融合;在政策推广方面,可以先从小学进行试点推广,中学生手机移动学习可以走社会化推进、产业推动的道路。     

高职学生使用手机用途调查及预防成瘾对策

高职校园里,学生基本人人有手机,很多学生把手机作为学习工具使用,但也有少部分学生使用手机玩游戏,因此,预防学生使用手机娱乐,引导学生正确使用手机是当务之急。学生在上课时几乎人人都携带手机,禁止学生携带手机上课并不可取,强制学生上课关机效果也并不好。只有任课教师正视现实,因势利导,开发手机中帮助学生学习的功能,把学生的兴趣引导到对课程知识的探索和实践技能的掌握上,才能减少甚至杜绝学生手机成瘾。     

Mobile phone use in two secondary schools in Tanzania

Mobile phone technology in Tanzania has grown rapidly but there is insufficient data on its application in schools. This paper aims to show how students in the first and third year (F1 and F3) teachers in two rural secondary schools perceived its use. F1 and F3 students completed a questionnaire. Teachers and students in F1 and F3 discussed the uses and misuses of mobile phones in separate focus groups. Although they served similar areas the two schools differed in students’ use – and awareness of misuse – of mobile phones. Most students had access to a mobile phone, but were not permitted to bring them to school. Few teachers could see a positive use for the technology in the curriculum. There is an urgent need for pedagogical resources to support the introduction of mobile technology into classrooms but equally it is crucial that any such introduction is through a process of engagement with the concerns of students, teachers and the wider community with frank discussion about both the dangers and the potential benefits of using mobile phones in learning.     

职业院校课堂手机与班级管理策略摭探

智能手机的普及,为职业院校课堂的手机与班级管理工作带来了挑战。文章在分析职业院校课堂上学生使用手机的原因及其产生的不良影响基础上,提出职业院校课堂手机与班级管理对策。教师应通过培养学生新媒体素养、增强课堂趣味性、加强民主管理等有效措施,提高职业院校课堂手机与班级管理工作的质量和效率。     

Challenges of Integrating Mobile Technology into Mathematics Instruction in Secondary Schools: An Indonesian Context

Implementing mobile learning in curriculum-based educational settings faces challenges related to perceived ethical and learning issues. This study investigated the affordances of mobile technologies to support mathematics instruction by teachers. An exploratory study employing questionnaires and semi-structured interviews revealed that, while mathematics instruction can be augmented with mobile learning, the majority of schools in Indonesia have banned student use of mobile phones in classrooms. Teachers are concerned about the improper use of mobile phones that could impact their students' mental well-being and distract them from learning. Most teachers perceive mobile technologies to be disruptive and seem reluctant to use them for teaching delivery. However, teachers are eager to experiment with digital technologies within mathematics instruction. Our findings suggest infusing alternate technologies that fit better with the school's teaching and learning environment. This includes web-based applications that can run on different digital devices ranging from desktop computers, laptops, and tablets, to mobile phones. We propose setting up communities of practice for mathematics teachers to share their instructional repertoire on integrating digital technologies within the classroom.     

二维码在初中文言文教学中应用的思考——以《爱莲说》一课教学为例

借助移动互联时代以智能手机为代表的便携式移动学习终端和二维码技术,教师利用二维码能够在课前将微课等资源推送给学生,方便学生高效自主地学习,还能随时掌握课前检测数据的汇总结果,增强后续教学的针对性。本文以《爱莲说》一课为例,介绍了二维码在初中文言文教学各环节的应用,在此基础上讨论二维码的教学功能,并对基础教育中学生使用手机的现象进行反思。     

Writing stories,rewriting identities: using journalism education and mobile technologies to empower marginalized high school students

This study examines the impact that producing a print newspaper using cell phones had on marginalized students in a high school journalism classroom. Analysis of data from participant observation, artifact analysis and student interviews revealed that a) students negotiated cell phone use for educational purposes, despite school bans on such devices, and b) students manifested emerging, transformative identities that positively influenced their roles in five key areas: as a conception of self, in other academic classes, among peers, with family, and in the community. Our findings point to the significance of media-based journalism production in allowing marginalized students to embrace professional identities by participating in a meaningful community of practice. This research highlights the academic, social and civic benefits of such initiatives, and calls attention to the range of opportunities and challenges that pertain to using mobile devices as learning tools in these contexts.     

当代大学生手机消费的理性思考

通过对江西某高校学生的手机消费状况进行抽样调查,揭示了当前大学生手机消费行为的一些特点。大学生手机"热"的背后是大学生在特定的社会环境下理性追求的结果,同时大学校园手机"热"对大学生的学习和生活造成了一定的负面影响,必须予以充分重视,采取相应措施,引导大学生合理使用手机。     

大学课堂“低头”现象、成因及其消解探析

大学生是“低头族”的主要构成者,“低头”现象从课堂之外延伸到课堂之内。在教学课堂上,使用手机必然对教学效果产生消极影响。学生自控能力较弱、课堂教学内容陈旧、课堂教学形式单一、授课教师的放任、课程考核降低课堂教学对学生的约束等助长了课堂“低头族”的形成。有必要开展合理运用手机等电子设备的宣传教育、加强学生文明使用手机的管理、用精彩的课堂内容吸引学生、衔接课程考核与课堂教学秩序、学生增强自我约束等做法,让学生的专注力重新回归课堂教学。     

Attitudes and coping practices of using mobile phones for teaching and learning in a Uganda secondary school

This study investigated the opportunities for learning afforded by access to mobile phones, and the associated challenges created by their use in a peri-urban private secondary school in Uganda. The study was motivated by availability of phones with facilities to connect to the Internet and to access free open education resources (OERs), which if used appropriately, could support changes in pedagogy required to promote learning in rural schools in Uganda. Information was collected using interviews, observations and focus group discussions with parents, students and their teachers between June 2014 and July 2015. Results show a slow positive change in attitude amongst teachers and parents that phones are useful in learning; an increased enthusiasm and eagerness among students, and more engaging and interactive lessons. Some teachers found challenges in accessing education resources due to poor Internet connectivity, while others required skills and knowledge about appropriate OERs that promote interactive learning. The study recommends re-skilling of teachers to use mobile phones to access the Internet, use of OERs and ICT interactive pedagogies especially in schools with limited access to computers and Internet connectivity.     

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is… 120 Characters

Cell phones have been banned in 69% of today’s classrooms (CommonSense, 2010). Reasons for the banning of cell phones may seem obvious—kids will misuse them to cheat, use textese in place of Standard English, cyberbully, and sexting (Brady & Conn, 2006; Johnson, 2004; Obringer & Coffey, 2007). These fears have disregarded the fact that today’s cell phones are inexpensive, mobile computing devices with a number of applications (assessments, digital images, podcasting, and internet access) that could be beneficial in the classroom. The bonus to these applications found on cell phones is that the majority of teenagers already own one and are efficient in their use. The question is, should the fears of the misuse of cell phones and the technology they provide prevent teachers from tapping into the many opportunities and benefits that cell phone use in the classroom might provide? This paper explores the current research to refute the claim that cell phones are responsible for aberrant behaviors and to explore the potential instructional benefits of cell phones in the classroom.     

‘What is puberty,then?’ Smartphones and Tumblr images as de/re-territorialisations in an upper secondary school classroom

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we explore the part mobile phone use plays in the capitalist assemblages present in school classrooms. Capitalism is approached through the continuous movement of de- and re-territorialisation. The empirical grounding is a wide study on mobile phone use conducted at an upper secondary school in Finland. The focus of this paper is one psychology lesson on puberty and the ways in which territories such as puberty are challenged in the school life of young people through their mobile phone use in class. Analysing a student’s Tumblr photo stream, we show how smartphones challenge the existing territorialities in a classroom. We locate three central deterritorialising movements: in relation to the physical space of the classroom; to the affective space of the classroom; and to the notion of body in puberty. We conclude that mobile phone use matters to students intimately and channels flows of capitalism at school.     

基于手机媒体的学生事务服务平台的设计思考

随着高校管理模式更加人性化,加强学生事务服务成为高校学生工作中较为重要的一部分,“一站式”学生综合事务服务大厅正是体现“以学生为本”的服务理念.结合当下高校大力推进学生事务平台的建设,分析手机媒体在学生事务服务方面的优势.结合手机在大学生群体中的广泛使用提出了基于手机媒体的学生事务平台的发展方向,并从目标用户研究和需求分析与应用系统设计两个方面提出了设计基于手机媒体的学生综合事务服务平台的思路,使“90后”大学生享有更加快捷、便利、贴心的成长成才服务.     

中职生手机依赖问题研究

随着科技的发展,手机在中职校园内已不陌生。如今,中职生使用手机的普及度相当高,手机的过分依赖严重影响了学生的身心健康,影响他们的行为和实际交往的能力。分析手机依赖现象的形成因素和对中职生所产生的负面影响,并对此提出建议和对策。     

Teacher perceptions of integrating technology in writing

With increasing emphasis by policymakers, there has been an increase in access to technology within schools across the globe. However, recent survey findings suggest that teachers may not be integrating technology into their writing instruction in meaningful and effective ways. Variability in technology integration can be attributed to teacher attitudes about technology. This study seeks to understand teacher attitudes and perceptions regarding writing instruction and use of technology. Interviews of 47 middle school teachers revealed that most teachers considered themselves to be technology users who perceived their students’ writing skills to be deficient, yet spent little time on writing instruction in content areas. Teachers indicated that barriers to using technology included that it was too time-consuming; they had limited access; and they perceived access to be a competition. However, teachers revealed that technology was positive for students with disabilities, differentiating instruction, and providing twenty-first-century learning opportunities. These findings suggest that teacher attitudes and perceptions play an important role in technology integration. In addition to increased access to technology, school divisions should provide pre-service and in-service training and time for reflection so that teacher attitudes that impede technology integration can be positively manipulated to improve technology integration in the classroom.