Political Questionaire: Views and Voting Patterns

The Value of Mobile Technology in Teaching and Learning: A New Style of Teaching, and a New Learning Experience

The uses of mobile devices in the learning environment can yield many benefits for students and teacher alike; for students in terms of motivation, collaboration, and creativity. (Hocanin, 2014)   For teachers in terms of empowering them to monitor students learning, engage students with learning activities, reduce tedious work, facilitate collaborative learning, record teaching and learning, and implement technology supported activities. (Llu, Wang, Chan, Ko, & Yang, 2003, p. 372)  Mobile learning is the newest type of ICT to enter the classroom, with the creation of I-phones, mobile tablets and notebooks, which are mobile and accessible to use in an easy to reach here and now environment.  Mobile technology is now changing the way in which teachers teach their students and the way in which students learn.  These technologies give students easy access to course material, assist students in working collaboratively on projects and help students to receive feedback and advice from their course tutors, giving students easy access to their tutor and tutors easy access to their students. 

Many studies have already been done on the effectiveness of mobile technology as a learning style. One study analysed the opinions of 4^th grade undergraduate students in their use of mobile technology in the learning environment. (Hocanin, 2014)  This study found that the students believed mobile technology provided many advantages; highlighting how mobile technology enriched the course by creating an ease in doing joint activities and giving them further access to their course and tutors. (Hocanin, 2014, p. 15)  However, they also believe that mobile technology in learning may also bring some disadvantages, by affecting student attention during class, causing health problems in the eyes and wrists and affecting the communication process between students, (Hocanin, 2014, p. 15), but general feeling was that the advantages of mobile technology outweigh the disadvantages. The students felt that mobile technology will create a wider variety of teaching and learning methods, there will be improvements in the materials presented to students and easier access to the course for each student’s particular needs. (Hocanin, 2014, pp. 16-17) There have also been other studies that have found that mobile technology generally has a positive effect on education, but educators are still generally hesitant to implement such technologies into their teaching sessions and some learners are hesitant in adopting such technologies to enhance their learning experience. (MacCallum & Jeffrey, 2013, p. 303)  

The adoption of mobile technology depends on whether teachers believe they can enhance the opportunities for students to learn, and whether students believe that mobile technology fits their particular needs; (MacCallum & Jeffrey, 2013, p. 303) but more research still needs to be done before this relatively new learning style is adopted completely into the learning environment.

Works Cited

Hocanin, F. T. (2014). Use of Mobile Tablets in the Learning Environment: Perspective of the Computer Teacher Candidate. Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World , 4 (2), 13 - 18.

Llu, T. C., Wang, H. Y., Chan, T. W., Ko, H. W., & Yang, J. C. (2003). Wireless and Mobile Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning , 19, 371-382.

MacCallum, K., & Jeffrey, L. (2013). The Influence of Student ICT Skills and Their Adoption of Mobile Learning. Australasian Journal of Education and Technology , 29 (3), 303-315.

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