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Description

Students are increasingly using smart phones for academic activities. In a survey report conducted at the University of Central Florida, it was found that ownership of mobile devices (99.8%) remains high. 82% of student respondents indicated that they had used a mobile app for learning at least once each week. How can teachers harness the power of these devices?

Instructor Testimony I

  • Instructor: Rick Brunson, Journalism, Nicholson School of Communication, UCF

Instructor Brunson encourages his students to use only their smartphones to collect and file information to be used in a news story. They used voice-to-text conversion apps, digital notepads, and other applications on their smartphones to interview students, capture the information, and send it electronically to his email account.

Link to example artifact(s)

See a list of mobile apps useful to journalism students for research.

Link to scholarly reference(s)

Cradler, J., McNabb, M., Freeman, M., & Burchett, R. (2002). How does technology influence student learning? International Society for Technology in Education. 29, 8. http://educ116eff11.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/44935610/Article.StudentLearning.pdf

EDUCAUSE. (2010). 7 things you should know about mobile apps learning.  https://library.educause.edu/resources/2010/5/7-things-you-should-know-about-mobile-apps-for-learning

Citation

Vargas, J. & Thompson, K. (2015). Use smart phones for student interaction. In B. Chen & K. Thompson (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning. https://topr.online.ucf.edu/use-smart-phones-for-student-interaction/.