Motivation and MOBILE Devices’ Usage at School: Pupils’ Opinions

Kleopatra Nikolopoulou

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Motivation and MOBILE Devices’ Usage at School: Pupils’ Opinions

Kleopatra Nikolopoulou

Published in American Journal of Education and Information Technology (Volume 3, Issue 1)

Received: 21 February 2019 Accepted: 26 March 2019 Published: 18 April 2019

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Abstract

This study investigated junior high school pupils’ opinions on motivation and mobile devices’ usage at school. The sample consisted of 179 pupils aged 13-15 years old, in a state experimental school in Greece. The majority of pupils believe that mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones, tablets) are an incentive for learning, mainly because these help in searching for information, they are interesting, they help pupils in understanding the concepts and in completing the school assignments. The school subjects for which many pupils would be more interested, in case mobile devices were used in the classroom, were physics, mathematics and history. The examples of learning activities (or functions) with mobile devices in the classroom, as stated by pupils, were mainly those pupils are familiar with (searching the internet, using the calculator, the stopwatch and the dictionary). Implications for school practices are discussed.

Published in	American Journal of Education and Information Technology (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajeit.20190301.12
Page(s)	6-11
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Mobile Devices, Motivation, Mobile Learning, Pupils’ Perceptions, Adolescents

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Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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